Reading Shembe 're-membering' the Bible
Isaiah Shembe is a significant figure in African biblical hermeneutics as he represents the first generation of African interpreters of the Bible in southern Africa. Shembe's case is particularly informative in that he was relatively independent of missionary formation. Though his biblical herm...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2006, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 157-184 |
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| Summary: | Isaiah Shembe is a significant figure in African biblical hermeneutics as he represents the first generation of African interpreters of the Bible in southern Africa. Shembe's case is particularly informative in that he was relatively independent of missionary formation. Though his biblical hermeneutic does draw on missionary discourse, it also participates in the discourse of Zulu traditional religion and culture, and the discourse of colonial encounter and conflict in the early 1900s. From these three discourses Shembe was to shape his own discourse. This article examines Shembe's use of the Bible in his construction of a particular form of African Christianity. The focus of the article is Shembe's teaching on adultery. Central to Shembe's reconstruction of community in Ibandla lamaNazaretha is his teaching on adultery, much of which is shaped by his interpretation of biblical texts. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83227 |