Divining the Woman of Endor
Title | Divining the Woman of Endor PDF eBook |
Author | J. Kabamba Kiboko |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-02-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567673685 |
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.
Divining the Woman of Endor
Title | Divining the Woman of Endor PDF eBook |
Author | J. Kabamba Kiboko |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9780567673695 |
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
The Nineteenth Century
Title | The Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1234 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Nineteenth century |
ISBN |
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Title | The Nineteenth Century and After PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 644 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Nineteenth century |
ISBN |
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Title | Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
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Release | 1919 |
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Title | The Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1234 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | English periodicals |
ISBN |
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Title | Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1224 |
Release | 1919 |
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