Reading The Bible In The Global Village: Cape Town

The world is increasingly assuming the characteristics of a “”global village,”” as transportation and information technologies make travel and communications around the globe ever quicker and easier. The world of biblical scholarship has not been immune to such changes. Increasingly, biblical scholars everywhere recognize that they are “”reading the Bible in the global village,”” and that as they do so they must be aware of their particular contexts for reading the Bible, and of the relationships and tensions between the global and the local, the general and the particular. This volume, which derives from the 2000 SBL International Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, presents essays by eight scholars who all either come from Africa or have strong interests in African biblical scholarship. Taken together, their work provides a good overview of and introduction to some of the key issues, themes, theories, and practices that are characteristic of the best contemporary biblical study in Africa. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Justin S Ukpong has contributed to Reading the Bible in the Global Village: Cape Town as an author.Ukpong is Professor of New Testament at the Catholic Institute of West Africa.Musa W Dube has contributed to Reading the Bible in the Global Village: Cape Town as an author.Kathleen OBrien Wicker is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, Scripps College and Adjunct Professor, Claremont Graduate University. Althea Spencer Miller is Adjunct Professor, Scripps College. Musa W. Dube is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Botswana.