The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends

This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender and culture in African biblical interpretation.