Contextual Interpretation of the Bible (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament)

Call For Papers: This Seminar underlines the significance of contextual interpretation and its contribution to biblical studies. We invite contributions to 4 sessions (proposed and solicited papers): (1) One joint organized session on the "Bible and Texts in East and South Asian Contexts” with the Culturally Central Texts Project group from SBL; (2) "Interpreting the Bible in pluri-textual contexts in contemporary Africa": Scholars engaged in African biblical hermeneutics have always emphasised the need for an awareness of the realities of the African context when interpreting the Bible. One important dimension of this context is the pluri-textual environment in which the biblical text thrives on the continent. In many families, institutions and communities, the message of the biblical text must necessarily encounter the texts of the Islamic tradition or those of African Indigenous Religions and others. This seminar offers and opportunity to engage the pluri-textual African context as an opportunity and challenge for biblical interpretation in Africa. (3) We invite contributions to two open sessions on the interpretation of the biblical text from within a reader's explicitly articulated context, personal as well as communal, while firmly anchored in a clear methodology.

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