Title: Other ways of reading : African women and the Bible /
Authors: Dube Shomanah, Musa W., 1964-
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature ; WCC Publications,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Bible Feminist criticism Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Postcolonialism.
Contents: I am the woman / Rose Teteki Abbey -- Esther and northern Sotho stories : an African-South African woman's commentary / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya -- Fifty years of bleeding : a storytelling feminist reading of Mark 5:24-43 / Musa W. Bude -- How local divine powers were suppressed : a case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora R. Mbuwayesago -- Translating the divine : the case of Modimo in the Setwwana Bible / Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani -- Cultural hermeneutics : an African contribution / Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro -- Toward a post-apartheid black feminist reading of the Bible : a case of Luke 2:36-38 / Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie -- A bosadi (womanhood) reading of Proverbs 31:10-31 / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya -- A Sourth African Indian womanist reading of the character of Ruth / Sarojini Nadar -- Divining Ruth for international relations / Musa W. Dube -- A North American feminist response / Pyllis A. Bird -- The Bible and African Christianity : a curse or a blessing? / Nyambura J. Njoroge -- African "Ruths," ruthless Africas : reflections of an African Mordecai / Tinyiko S. Maluleke.