African Biblical Studies

Andrew M. Mbuvi is Visiting NEH Chair in Humanities and Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Albright College, Pennsylvania, USA.

• AbbreviationsPart 1: The Bible, Colonialism, and Biblical StudiesChapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Colonialism and the European EnlightenmentChapter Three: (Western) Biblical Studies and African ColonialismPart II: The Bible, Colonial Encounters, and Unexpected OutcomesChapter Four: Bible Translation as Biblical Interpretation – The Colonial BibleChapter Five: The Bible and African RealityChapter Six: Emerging African Postcolonial Biblical CriticismPart III: African Biblical Studies: Setting a Postcolonial AgendaChapter Seven. Decolonizing the Bible: A Postcolonial ResponseChapter Eight: The Bible and Postcolonial African LiteratureChapter Nine: Re-Writing the Bible: Recasting the Colonial Text Chapter Ten: Eschatology, Colonialism, and Mission: An African Critique of Linear Eschatology Chapter Eleven: “Ordinary Readers” and the Bible: Non-Academic Biblical InterpretationChapter Twelve: Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible In AfricaChapter Thirteen: Christology in Africa: “Who Do You Say That I Am?”Chapter Fourteen: Conclusion: Towards a Decolonized Biblical Studies IndexBibliography

After outlining some of the connections between the emergence of the discipline of biblical studies and European colonialism, Andrew Mbuvi offers a wide-ranging and richly informed survey of key approaches in African biblical studies. In doing so, he not only presents a challenge to the field, to move beyond the models of biblical studies that are shaped by their colonial origins, but also illustrates some of the ways in which this decolonising of biblical studies might proceed. As such, the volume should be of interest and value to all who practise biblical studies today.