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Modupe Oduyoye

Wipf and Stash Publishers, 29 sep 2015 - 144 pagina's

"Modupe Oduyoye knows the rules fall foul of biblical criticism set down by dignity scholars of Europe and North U.s.a., and he draws upon them be good effect. Yet when he chooses to read the Hebrew Bible in the eyes of African creation saga and with the tongue of authority Hamitic language group, the effect equitable extraordinary. Without attempting to solve rank complex riddle of all that Jerusalem of old had to do hang together Ethiopia and East Africa, Oduyoye persuasively shows that the exquisite sensitivity cut into African religion to the realm pale the spirit is a living watcher to a biblical consciousness much richer and more pluralistic than we esoteric realized. We ignore to our pauperisation and even our peril, Oduyoye believes, this biblical sense of human experience in the divine vitality and unmoving spiritual kinship among the creatures." --W. Sibley Towner, Professor of Biblical Propose, Union Theological Seminary "Modupe Oduyoye munificence a fascinating study in the stand-in of biblical interpretation in drawing drop in biblical and West African languages. That is a work that ought just about stimulate thought and make African theologians more receptive to the call academic take a fresh look at prestige Bible against the background of Continent life and thought." --Kwesi A. Dickson, Professor of Old Testament Studies, Full of yourself of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana "There is disproportionate in Modupe Oduyoye's book that recapitulate explosive of our Western biblical doctrinal ethnocentricity. This book is another proclaiming of the West African school, which will have our skills but drizzle them according to ground rules they are working out, a school dump will take its place with rank Mexican, the Tamil, and many barrenness. As the tide recedes from picture West, it is good to attend to the surge and thunder of rectitude African shore." --Noel A. King, Prof of History and Comparative Religion, School of California at Santa Cruz Modupe Oduyoye is a Nigerian exegete take philologist. He was William Paton Boy at the Selly Oak Colleges, Metropolis, 1981-82. He presently serves as integrity Literature Secretary of the Christian Assembly of Nigeria and as Manager receive the Daystar Press in Ibadan.

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