Generational Curses in the Pentateuch: An American and Maasai Intercultural Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781433141218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 292 str.

Beth Elness-Hanson

Opis

This book pursues an intercultural analysis of American and Maasai interpretations of the Pentateuchal texts on the generational curses. It demonstrates that intercultural dialogues increase understandings, which otherwise are limited by one worldview.

Recenzje

"This volume represents an exemplary exercise in the religious-theological paradigm of interpretation within the spectrum of contemporary biblical criticism. Its framework is that of World Christianity, described in terms of an ever greater presence of the Global South alongside enduring marginalization in interpretation on the part of the Global North. Its approach is that of intercultural criticism, bringing voices together from different areas of the world for dialogue. Indeed, the exercise proves quite successful in every respect. The result is a most insightful reading of both the Maasai and American interpretations in context, with mutual illumination of both in the process. The result is also a most persuasive argument for diversity in the critical task. Altogether, therefore, Beth E. Elness-Hanson has produced an excellent example of intercultural analysis and issued an excellent call for dialogical reading within World Christianity at all levels, academic as well as popular."-Fernando F. Segovia, Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Vanderbilt University

Spis treści

List of Figures - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Question and Texts - Theoretical Framework for Intercultural Hermeneutics - The Maasai Concept of Generational Curses as Reconciliation - Exegesis in Dialogue with the Maasai Conceptual Paradigm of Reconciliation - Analysis and Potentials - Appendices - Subject Index - Scripture Index.

O autorze

Beth E. Elness-Hanson (Ph.D., VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway) is Lecturer in Old Testament at Johannelunds Teologiska Högskola in Uppsala, Sweden, an institution with over 150 years of relationships within East Africa.