The Bible and the female body in Ibandla lamaNazaretha : Isaiah Shembe and Jephthah's daughter
Isaiah Shembe constructed his Christian community, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, using strands from at least three narratives: the narrative of Zulu traditional religion and life, the narrative of his particular colonial context in the early 1900s, and the narrative of the Bible. That the Bible is central...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2007, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 489-509 |
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| Summary: | Isaiah Shembe constructed his Christian community, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, using strands from at least three narratives: the narrative of Zulu traditional religion and life, the narrative of his particular colonial context in the early 1900s, and the narrative of the Bible. That the Bible is central to Shembe's construction of his community is clear. What is also clear is that women are central to the kind of community Shembe constructed. This article explores how the Bible, together with the two other strands, was used by Shembe to place the female body at his church's centre. Among the texts used to reconfigure the female body is the story of Jephthah's daughter in Judges 11. This article analyses Shembe's appropriative hermeneutics and the female body he constructs with this biblical text as one of his key resources. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC85871 |
