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Divining the Woman of Endor: African Culture, Postcolonial Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Biblical Translation: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Autor J. Kabamba Kiboko
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 feb 2017
An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called "Witch of Endor" passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination in this passage and beyond has been mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings. Kiboko argues that the woman of Endor is not a witch. The woman of Endor is, rather, a diviner, much like other ancient Near Eastern and modern African diviners. She resists an inner-biblical conquest theology and a monologic authoritarian view of divination to assist King Saul by various means, including invoking the spirit of a departed person, Samuel. Kiboko carries out a Hebrew word-study shaped by the theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin regarding the utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogism in order to understand the designative, connotative, emotive, and associative meanings of the many divinatory terms in the Hebrew Bible. She then examines 1 Samuel 28 and a number of prior translations thereof, using the ideological framework of African-feminist-postcolonial biblical interpreters and translation theories to uncover the hidden ideology or transcript of these translations. Finally, using African contextual/cultural hermeneutics and cross-cultural translation theory, Kiboko offers new English, French, and Kisanga translations of this passage that are both faithful to the original text and more appropriate to an inculturated-liberation African Christian hermeneutic, theology, and praxis.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780567673671
ISBN-10: 0567673677
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Seria The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Presents a culturally informed reading and assessment of the divining woman of Endor side-stepping the socially charged term "witch"

Notă biografică

J. Kabamba Kiboko was the first clergywoman to be ordained elder (1983) in the Southern Congo Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church. She holds a PhD from the University of Denver, USA.

Cuprins

Preface AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrologue: A Man-Woman from the Disanga Reads the Bible from a Post-Colonial Place1. Introduction: Translating Divination and Crossing the Disanga of Life2. Cross-Dressing Method: Translation at the Disanga of Theory3. Locating a Path through the Jungle of Divination4. Crossing the Disanga of Life and Beyond in the Hebrew Bible: A Bakhtinian Word Study of the Language of Divination5. The Literary Context: Reading 1 Samuel 28 through a Feminist Musanga Contextual / Cultural Lens 6. 1 Samuel 28 at the Disanga: Three Inculturated-Liberation 7. Meeting at the Disanga of Divination: Conclusions and ImplicationsEpilogue: Lessons Learned at the DisangaBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Biblical scholar Jeanne Kabamba Kiboko offers a compelling case for a postcolonial reading of the biblical woman of Endor. In Divining the Woman, a subversive reading of Eurocentric 'conquest exegesis' (230), Kiboko successfully executes her proposition 'to analyze, to resist, and to reconstruct the so-called canonical literature'.