Johanna Stiebert is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Leeds, UK.Musa W. Dube is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Botswana, Botswana.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Abstracts Contributors Foreword, by Vincent Wimbush, Founding Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, USAIntroduction, by Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana and Johanna Stiebert, University of Leeds, UK Border Crossing in Diasporic Academic Space, by Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana Of Borders, Crossings, Colours and Botswana, by Johanna Stiebert, University of Leeds, UK Part I Paddling the Bellowing Waters Away From the Margins: African Perspectives of Proverbs 31, by Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe, University of Botswana, Botswana White is Purity: Christian Imagery, Popular Culture and the Construction of Whiteness, by Katie Edwards, University of Sheffield, UK Between Resisting White and Reflecting Black: A Hong Kong Resident’s Response and Perspective, by Nancy N. H. Tan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Part IIEmpire and Identity Secrecy: A Postcolonial Reflection on Esther 2.10, by Tsaurayi K. Mapfeka, King's College London, UK ‘My Words Dropped Upon Them Like Dew’: Toward Reimaging the Identity of African Biblical Interpreters, by Mark S. Aidoo, Trinity Theological Seminary, Ghana Locating African Biblical Scholarship as Another Generation of African Biblical Scholars Takes up the Work, by Gerald O. West, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Part III The Dark Heart of Biblical Scholarship: Western Readers and African Readings, by Hugh S. Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK Mwari and the Shona Bible: Colonial and Patriarchal Ideology in Translation, by Elizabeth Vengeyi, University of Bamberg, GermanyThe Politics of Appropriation, by Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK BibliographyIndex

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