Dube, Musa W. “‘Go Therefore and Make Disciples of All Nations’ (Matt 28:19a): A Postcolonial Perspective on Biblical Criticism and Pedagogy.” In Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy, edited by Fernando F. Segovia and Mary A. Tolbert, 224–46. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1998.
Dube, Musa W. “‘God Never Opened the Bible to Me’: Women Church Leaders in Botswana.” In Trajectories of Religion in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. Pobee, edited by Cephas N. Omenyo and Eric B. Anum, 315–40. Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations 48. Brill, 2014.
Dube, Musa W. “‘I Am Because We Are’: Giving Primacy to African Indigenous Values in HIV&AIDS Prevention.” In African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and Applied Ethics, edited by Munyaradzi F. Murove, 178–88. Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2009.
Dube, Musa W. “‘I Am Because We Are’: Giving Primacy to African Indigenous Values in HIV&AIDS Prevention.” In African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and Applied Ethics, edited by Munyaradzi F. Murove, 178–88. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009.
AbstractThe paper explores the African communal ethic of ubuntu and its possible contribution to
prevention of HIV and AIDS and tocommunal healing in general.
Dube, Musa W. “‘My Bones Shall Rise Again!’ African Legendary Women and the Spirituality of Resistance.” In African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance, edited by Musa W. Dube, Telesia K. Musili, and Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, 3–24. London: Routledge, 2024.
AbstractMbuya Nehanda, an African indigenous priestess and freedom fighter, uttered the words “my bones shall rise again” when the British colonialists sentenced her to death in 1862, for leading a resistance movement against the infiltration of colonizers in her motherland, contemporary Zimbabwe. Her story and words articulate resistance against bodily, spiritual, cultural, economic, political, and intellectual annihilation through the forces of colonization. Her story and words provide a decolonizing African feminist framework discourse, which is Earth and spiritually centered. This chapter congregates the narratives of various legendary African women to highlight decolonizing, depatriarchalizing, and anti-anthropocentric feminist knowledge production they model. By reading the narratives of African legendary women, who were spiritual, environmental, political, and freedom icons, this chapter seeks to highlight Africa-informed knowledges about gender construction and liberation from various forms of oppression.
Dube, Musa W. “‘Shall Our Sister Become a Whore?’ Introduction: Colonial Contexts, Race, and Sexual Violence,” 2017.
Dube, Musa W. “‘Talitha Cum’ - Hermeneutics: Some African Women’s Ways of Reading the Bible.” In The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation, edited by Alejandro F. Botta and Pablo R. Andinach, 133–45. Semeia 59. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.
Dube, Musa W. “Adinkra! Four Hearts Joined Together: On Becoming HealingTeachers of African Indigenous Religions in HIV & AIDS Prevention.” In African Women, Religion and Health: Essays in Honor of Mercy. A E. Oduyoye, edited by Isabel A. Phiri and Sarojini Nadar, 131–56. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2006.
Dube, Musa W. “African Biblical Interpretation.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation, edited by Steven L. McKenzie, 8–17. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Abstract"African Biblical Interpretation" published on by Oxford University Press....
Dube, Musa W. “African Eco-Feminisms: African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred.” In Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers: Earth, Gender, and the Sacred, edited by Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga, Musa Wenkosi Dube, and Limakatso E. Pepenene, 3–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.
AbstractThe chapter’s exposition highlights that African eco-feminisms are founded upon African cosmologies; African histories; and contemporary experiences and movements; and that they are intersectional, interreligious, ecumenical, and activist in character. The chapter also explores the linkage and experiences of Mother Earth and Mother Africa and their intersections with slavery, colonialism, neo-liberalism, gender, class, race, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, gender-based violence, and postcoloniality. The chapter’s exposition further indicates that African eco-feminisms are a depatriarchal, decolonial and an oppositional discourse, seeking to be in solidarity with Mother Earth and all groups that find themselves marginalized by the exploitation and oppression of Planet Earth. The chapter highlights how the book contents explore African eco-feminisms from the perspectives of African women writers. This book is therefore a contribution to African literary criticism, African Indigenous knowledges, Global South theologies, earth-care theologies and feminist /womanist eco-critical movements.
Dube, Musa W. “Afterword: A Flame Blazes in the Darkness!” In African Women’s Liberating Philosophies, Theologies, and Ethics, edited by Beatrice Okyere-Manu and Léocadie Lushombo, 259–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.
AbstractThis chapter presents a narrative reflection of all the chapters in this volume. Highlighting the transformative role of African women, particularly elderly women, in shaping philosophical and ethical narratives within the traditional hearth setting. It places an interest in the interconnectedness of humans and nature, spotlighting the symbolic inclusion of animals within the community and the philosophy of ubuntu, encapsulated in “umuntu ngu muntu nga bantu,” which underscores human interdependence as emphasized in the volume. The chapter identified the displacement of women from traditional power spaces, leading to, among others, the establishment of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in 1989. It highlights how African women scholars within the Circle challenge patriarchal philosophies, contributing to gender-inclusive liberation. Written in a poetic style, the chapter invites a global dialogue, emphasizing the crucial interconnectedness of all individuals (and all creation) in fostering liberated and just societies for current and future generations.
Dube, Musa W. “And Sarah Laughed-Observations on Bible, Aging and Postcoloniality.” In Religion and Aging: Intercultural Explorations, 121–38. Contact Zone. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2017.
AbstractUsing contextual, postcolonial, gender and liberation perspectives, the article seeks to read the Bible in the light of aging processes
Dube, Musa W. “Batswakwa: Which Traveler Are You (John 1:1-8).” In Breaking the Master’s S.H.I.T. Holes: Doing Theology in the Context of Global Migration, edited by Musa W. Dube and Paul L. Leshota, 59–72. Contact Zone. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2021.
Dube, Musa W. “Batswakwa: Which Traveller Are You (John 1:1–18)?” In The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends, edited by Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube, 150–62. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
AbstractAlthough the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own.
The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation.
The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print.
Dube, Musa W. “Border Crossing in the Diasporic Academic Space.” In The Bible Centers & Margins: Dialogues Between Postcolonial African and UK Biblical Scholars, edited by Johanna Stiebert and Musa W. Dube, 15–26. London: T & T Clark, 2018.
Dube, Musa W. “Boundaries and Bridges: Journeys of a Postcolonial Feminist in Biblical Studies.” In Reading Other Peoples’ Texts: Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions, edited by Ken Brown, Alison L. Joseph, and Brennan Breed, 33–49. Scriptural Traces. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Abstract[republication] Musa W. Dube As a young girl, one of the derisive comments I frequently heard at our family retail shop was: “Dilo ke lona le tsile le tlola melolwane le melolwane; dinoka le dinokana, le tsile go bapala kwano. ” That is, “you came crossing one boundary after another, one river after another to trade in our country. ” The subtext in the statement was that we were foreigners who did not deserve, or had merely been favored to access economic resources in Botswana. My parents and five of my eldest siblings were born in Zimbabwe, and the last five of us were born in Botswana. Before we migrated to Botswana, it had happened that the village where my parents lived was declared a white man’s ranch. Indigenous people in the area were given two choices: to remain in their homes and assume the status of servants to the owner...
Dube, Musa W. “Centering the Body in HIV&AIDS Hermeneutics.” In What’s Faith Got to Do With It? A Global Multi-Faith Discussion on HIV Response, edited by Ezra Chitando and P. Nikkles. Oslo: Norwegian Church AID, 2010.
Dube, Musa W. “Christian Leaders as Agents for Gender Justice in Civil Society.” In Gender Mainstreaming: A Participant Resource Book, edited by Bagele Chilisa. Gaborona: WAD, 2007.
Dube, Musa W. “Christianity and Translation in the Colonial Context.” In Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa, edited by Elias K. Bongmba, 156–72. New York: Routledge, 2015.
AbstractChristianity and translation in the colonial context - 1
Dube, Musa W. “Circle Readings of the Bible/Scriptoratures.” In Study of Religion in Southern Africa: Essays in Honour of G.C. Oosthuizen, edited by Johannes Smit and Pratap Kumar, 77–97. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Dube, Musa W. “Consuming A Colonial Cultural Bomb: Translating Badimo Into ‘Demons’ in the Setswana Bible (Matthew 8. 28-34, 15.22; 10:8).” In Exegesis in the Making: Postcolonialism and New Testament Studies, edited by Anna Runesson, 141–67. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Abstract[republication] This paper investigates how native languages were used by colonizers to subordi nate the colonized. The paper uses an example from the Setswana language of Botswana to investigate the colonial translations of the Bible and compilation of the first dictionaries and to show how they were informed by their time. It focuses on the translation of Badimo (Ancestral Spirits) and other related words to show how the Setswana language was employed for imperial ends in colonial times. The paper also examines how the subsequent versions of the Setswana Bible and dictionaries reflect the growing spirit of decolonization as colonized subjects became involved in writing their own languages. Given that colonial translations remained in circulation beyond the period of colonization, this paper also documents how native readers developed strategies of resistance by reading the Bible as a divining text to get in touch with Badimo, thereby subverting the colonial translations that equated the latter with evil powers.
Dube, Musa W. “Consuming a Colonial Cultural Bomb: Translating Badimo into ‘Demons’ in the Setswana Bible (Matthew 8.28-34; 15.22; 10.8).” In [Re]Gained in Translation II: Bibles, Histories, and Struggles for Identity, edited by Sabine Dievenkorn and Shaul Levin, 251–77. Berlin: Frank & Timme GmbH, 2024.
Abstract[Republication of a journal article of the same name] This paper investigates how native languages were used by colonizers to subordinate the colonized. The paper uses an example from the Setswana language of Botswana to investigate the colonial translations of the Bible and compilation of the first dictionaries and to show how they were informed by their time.1 It focuses on the translation of Badimo [Ancestral Spirits] and other related words to show how the Setswana language was employed for imperial ends in colonial times. The paper also examines how the subsequent versions of the Setswana Bible and dictionaries reflect the growing spirit of decolonization as colonized subjects became involved in writing their own languages. Given that colonial translations remained in circulation beyond the period of colonization, this paper also documents how native readers developed strategies of resistance by reading the Bible as a divining text to get in touch with Badimo, thereby subverting the colonial translations that equated the latter with evil powers.
Dube, Musa W. “Culture, Gender and HIV/AIDS: Understanding and Acting on the Issues.” In HIV/AIDS and the Curriculum: Methods of Integrating HIV/AIDS InTheological Programmes, edited by Musa W. Dube, 84–100. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2003.
Dube, Musa W. “Culture, Roles Sexuels et VIH/SIDA: Comprendre et Agir SUR Ces Problemes.” In Vaincre le VIH/SIDA: Jalons Pour de Nouvelles Methodologies de l’enseingement Theologique en Afrique, 181–208. Haho: TOGO, 2004.
Dube, Musa W. “Current Issues in Biblical Interpretation.” In Theological Education in Contemporary Africa, edited by Grant LeMarquand and Joseph D. Galgalo, 39–62. Eldoret: Zapf Chancery, 2004.
Dube, Musa W. “Decolonizing the Darkness: Bible Readers and the Colonial Cultural Archive.” In Soundings in Cultural Criticism, 31–44. Minneapolis: 1517 Media; Fortress Press, 2013.
AbstractThe article carries out a postcolonial feminist reading of Genesis 34, taking up the intersection of gender, race, class and violence in the colonial space.
Dube, Musa W. “Divining Ruth for International Relations.” In Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible, edited by Musa W. Dube, 79–98. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.
Dube, Musa W. “Divining Texts for International Relations, Matthew 15:21-28.” In Inculturation and Postcolonial Discourse in African Theology, edited by Edward P. Antonio, 193–208. Society and Politics in Africa, v. 14. New York: Lang, 2006.
Dube, Musa W. “Divining Texts for International Relations: Matt. 15:21-28.” In Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-Viewed, 315–28. Leiden, 2000.
Dube, Musa W. “Feminist Theologies of a World Scripture(s) in the Globalization Era.” In The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology, edited by Sheila Briggs and Mary McClintock Fulkerson, 382–401. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
AbstractIn the globalization era, justice-seeking feminist theologies are challenged to sharpen and reposition themselves to speak to the issues of the time by adopting new methods, topics, and frameworks. Consequently, “the boundaries of theology need to be redrawn in the light of the creation of new global cultures” and “crucial to the task of rewriting the story of feminist theology in the light of globalization is reflecting on the nature of a theological perspective it makes.” This chapter explores the interrelations of globalization, a world scripture (the Bible), and the vision of feminist theologies.
Dube, Musa W. “Fifty Years of Bleeding: A Storytelling Feminist Reading of Mark 5:24-35.” In Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible, edited by Musa W. Dube, 26–49. Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 2. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.
Dube, Musa W. “Five Husbands at the Well of Living Waters.” In A Decade in Solidarity with the Bible, edited by Musimbi Kanyoro and Nyambura J. Njoroge, 6–26. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1998.
Abstractpublished in three different international languages and republished in 'Talitha Cum! Theologies of African Women.'
Dube, Musa W. “Foreword.” In Interdependence: A Postcolonial Feminist Practical Theology, edited by HyeRan Kim-Cragg, xi–xii. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2018.
Dube, Musa W. “Foreword: Tracing the Footsteps of Eku and Nwanyeruwa to Women’s War of Liberation.” In Sankofa: Liberation Theologies of West African Women, edited by Seyram Amenyedzi, Yosi Maton, and Marceline Yele, Circle Jubilee volume 1:11–21. Bible in Africa Studies 39. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2023.
AbstractBiAS 39 is an essay collection on women’s Liberation Theology in West Africa, issued as one of three regional volumes commissioned in preparation of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians’ (CIRCLE) return to Ghana, its place of birth, after 35 years. The volumes rose within the context of preparing the meeting in July 2024 by remembering the founding members of the CIRCLE. The three regional volumes focus on exploring South (BiAS 41), East/Central (BiAS 40) and West African (BiAS 39) womanist/feminist Liberation Theology generated since the launch of the CIRCLE in 1989. The contributions on the lives and works of groundbreaking African women in the Theology of Liberation constitute an international, interreligious, and interdisciplinary compendium for redemptive theological research. The book is dedicated to Rabiatu Deinyo Ammah, the first Muslim woman in the CIRCLE and one its founding matriarchs.
Dube, Musa W. “Gender in African Christianity.” In Anthology of African Christianity, 144–54. Handbook. 1517 Media, 2016.
Dube, Musa W. “Go Tla Siama, O Tla Fola: Doing Biblical Studies in an HIV and AIDS Context.” In Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations, edited by Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora Mbuwayesango, 483–508. SBL Press, 2012.
Dube, Musa W. “God Never Opened the Bible to Me:The Role of Women in Botswana Churches.” In Aspects of the History of the Church in Botswana, edited by F. Nkomazana and Laurel Lanner, 210–36. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 2007.
Dube, Musa W. “Healing Where There Is No Healing: Reading the Miracles of Healing in an AIDS Context.” In Reading Communities, Reading Scripture: Essays in Honor of Daniel Patte, edited by Gary A. Philips and Nicole Wilkinson Duran, 121–33. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2002.
Dube, Musa W. “Health and Healing as a Missional Focus: A Christ-Healed Church Is a HIV Positive Church.” In Methodists Igniting Mission: Mission Congress, 85–92, 2018.
Dube, Musa W. “HIV&AIDS Research and Writing in the Circle of African Women Theologians 2002-2006.” In Compassionate Circles: African Women Theologians Facing HIV&AIDS: New Themes, edited by Ezra Chitando and N. Hadebe, 173–96. Geneva: WCC, 2009.
Dube, Musa W. “HIV+ Feminisms, Postcoloniality and the Global AIDS Crisis.” In Another World Is Possible: Spiritualities and Religions of Global Darker Peoples, edited by Dwight N. Hopkins and Marjorie Lewis, 143–59. London: Routledge, 2009.
AbstractThe link between inequality, poverty and gender discrimination on the other hand is very strong.... The starting point for an adequate response is the understanding that any bid to halt the AIDS epidemic has to include determined efforts to eradicate poverty.
Dube, Musa W. “In the Circle of Life: African Women Theologians’ Engagement with HIV&AIDS.” In Compassionate Circles: African Women Theologians Facing HIV&AIDS: New Themes, edited by Ezra Chitando and N. Hadebe, 197–236. Geneva: WCC, 2009.
AbstractThe chapter explores translations of Christian hymns and scriptures during the modern colonial times, investigating how colonial ideology permeated these works. It also summaries African scholarly research that has investigated the area, from various regions and languages of the continent.
Dube, Musa W. “Introduction.” In Breaking the Master’s S.H.I.T. Holes: Doing Theology in the Context of Global Migration, edited by Musa W. Dube and Paul L. Leshota, 7–24. Contact Zone. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2021.
Dube, Musa W. “Introduction.” In Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible, edited by Musa W. Dube, 1–19. Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 2. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.
Dube, Musa W. “Introduction: The Scramble for Africa as the Biblical Scramble for Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives.” In Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations, edited by Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora Mbuwayesango, 1–26. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2012.
AbstractThe chapter investigates the link between modern colonialism, violence and biblical texts in the African context.
Dube, Musa W. “Jumping the Fire with Judith: Postcolonial Feminist Hermeneutics of Liberation.” In Feminist Interpretation of the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation, edited by Silvia Schroer and Sophia Bietenhard, 60–76. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
Dube, Musa W. “Let There Be Light! Birthing Ecumenical Theology in the HIV & AIDS Apocalypse!” In That All May Live! : Essays in Honour of Nyambura J. Njoroge, edited by Ezra Chitando, Esther Mombo, and Masiiwa R. Gunda, 161–80. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2021.
Dube, Musa W. “Liberating the Word: One African Feminist Reading of Matthew 23.” In Religions and Development, edited by Ezra Chitando. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2020.
Dube, Musa W. “Living in the Post-HIV & AIDS-Apocalypse.” In That All May Live! : Essays in Honour of Nyambura J. Njoroge, edited by Ezra Chitando, Esther Mombo, and Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, 59–74. Bible in Africa Studies 30. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2021.
Dube, Musa W. “Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in African Religious and Theological Studies.” In African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and Interface with Other World Religions, edited by Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, and Bolaji Bateye, 77–92. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
AbstractThis chapter uses African verbal arts to examine African traditional religion for the illumination, provides about the location and role of the African woman in selected African communities. Religion and religious consciousness are common denominators of every society's quest for self-knowledge. Growing up in the colonized and Christianized African world, the author was introduced to Western religious thought through both church and school. Most societies across the world have accepted Western Christian thought about women in general and its impact on African women in particular. For contemporary African nations and with regard to colonization, part of the rupture experienced by citizens in general and leaders in particular is the lessening of the place of women in many aspects of social experience. The contemporary African Christian continues to have the option to subscribe to various alternatives, especially with regards to where the African ancestors spend eternity.
Dube, Musa W. “Mark 9:33-37 Exegetical Perspective.” In Feasting on the Gospels-Mark: A Feasting on the Word Commentary, edited by Cynthia A. Jarvis and E. Elizabeth Johnson, 278–83. Feasting on the Gospels Series. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014.
AbstractFeasting on the Gospels is a new seven-volume series that follows up on the success of the Feasting on the Word series to provide another trusted preaching resource, this time on the most prominent and preached upon books in the Bible: the four Gospels. With contributions from a diverse and respected group of scholars and pastors, Feasting on the Gospels includes completely new material that covers every single passage in the Gospels, making it suitable for both pastors who preach from the lectionary and pastors who do not. Moreover, these volumes incorporate the unique format of Feasting on the Word, giving preachers four perspectives to choose from for each Gospel passage: theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical. Feasting on the Gospels offers a unique resource for all who preach, either continuously or occasionally, on the Gospels. Feasting on the Gospels-Mark: A Feasting on the Word Commentary (9780664259914)
Dube, Musa W. “Mark 9:38-41 Exegetical Perspective.” In Feasting on the Gospels-Mark: A Feasting on the Word Commentary, edited by Cynthia A. Jarvis and E. Elizabeth Johnson, 284–89. Feasting on the Gospels Series. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014.
AbstractFeasting on the Gospels is a new seven-volume series that follows up on the success of the Feasting on the Word series to provide another trusted preaching resource, this time on the most prominent and preached upon books in the Bible: the four Gospels. With contributions from a diverse and respected group of scholars and pastors, Feasting on the Gospels includes completely new material that covers every single passage in the Gospels, making it suitable for both pastors who preach from the lectionary and pastors who do not. Moreover, these volumes incorporate the unique format of Feasting on the Word, giving preachers four perspectives to choose from for each Gospel passage: theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical. Feasting on the Gospels offers a unique resource for all who preach, either continuously or occasionally, on the Gospels. Feasting on the Gospels-Mark: A Feasting on the Word Commentary (9780664259914)
Dube, Musa W. “Mark’s Healing Stories in an AIDS Context.” In Global Bible Commentary, edited by Daniel Patte, 379–84. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004.
AbstractThe Global Bible Commentary invites its users to expand their horizon by reading the Bible with scholars from all over the world and from different religious persuasions. These scholars have approaches and concerns that often are poles apart. Yet they share two basic convictions: biblical interpretation always matters; and reading the Bible “with others” is highly rewarding. Each of the short commentaries of the Global Bible Commentary is a readily accessible guide for reading a biblical book. Written for undergraduate and seminary students and their teachers, as well as for pastors, priests, and Adult Sunday School classes, it introduces the users to the main features of the biblical book and its content.Yet each short commentary does more. It also brings us a precious gift, namely the opportunity of reading this biblical book as if for the first time. By making explicit the specific context and the concerns from which she/he reads the Bible, the scholar points out to us the significance of aspects of the biblical text that we simply took for granted or overlooked.Need more info? Download Global Bible Commentary Marketing Brochure PDFFree Adobe Acrobat Reader!If any book demonstrates the value of cultural criticism and the importance of particularity in interpretation, this is it! Scholars from diverse social locations in every continent bring their distinctive context to bear on the act of interpreting. In so doing, they shed eye-opening light on the biblical texts. The resulting critical dialogue with the Bible exposes the oppressive as well as the liberating dynamics of the texts while at the same time showing how the Bible might address the social, political, cultural, and economic dynamics of our world today. This collection can change the way you read the Bible—scholars and students, clergy and laity alike. -David Rhoads, Professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, ILContributors:Daniel Patte, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. A French Huguenot (Église Réformée de France), he taught two years in Congo-Brazzaville, and “read the Bible with” people in France, Switzerland, South Africa, Botswana, the Philippines, as well as in the USA. His publications include books on hermeneutics and semiotics (such as Early Jewish Hermeneutics, 1975; The Religious Dimensions of Biblical Texts, 1990); on Paul and Matthew (such as Paul's Faith and the Power of the Gospel, 1983; The Gospel according to Matthew: A Structural Commentary on Matthew's Faith, 1987), as well as, most directly related to the GBC, Ethics of Biblical Interpretation (1995), The Challenge of Discipleship (1999), Reading Israel in Romans: Legitimacy and Plausibility of Divergent Interpretations (ed. with Cristina Grenholm, 2000), The Gospel of Matthew: A Contextual Introduction (with Monya Stubbs, Justin Ukpong, and Revelation Velunta, 2003). José Severino Croatto,. Professor of Exegesis, Hebrew, and Religious Studies, at Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos (ISEDET). A contributor to Revista de Interpretación Bíblica Latinoamericana (= RIBLA) and the Movement of Popular Reading of the Bible, he published 22 books, including three volumes on hermeneutics, Exodus, A Hermeneutics of Freedom (1981); Biblical Hermeneutics. Toward a Theory of Reading as the Production of Meaning (1987); Hermenéutica Práctica. Los principios de la hermenéutica bíblica en ejemplos (2002); three volumes on Génesis 1-11 (1974; 1986; 1997), the last one, Exilio y sobrevivencia. Tradiciones contraculturales en el Pentateuco; three volumes on the book of Isaiah (1988; 1994; 2001), the last one, Imaginar el futuro. Estructura retórica y querigma del Tercer Isaías (Isaías 56-66); two volumes on Religious Studies (1994; 2002), the last one, Experiencia de lo sagrado y tradiciones religiosas. Estudio de fenomenología de la religión (2002). Rev. Dr. Nicole Wilkinson Duran, after teaching New Testament in the USA, South Africa (Zululand), in Turkey, is currently teaching part-time at Rosemont College and Villanova University, and with her husband raising twin sons in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. She has published articles on topics ranging from gender and race in Esther, to the unread Bible in Toni Morrison’s novels, to body symbolism in the story of John the Baptist’s execution, and edited (with G. Phillips) Reading Communities Reading Scripture (2002). She is an ordained Presbyterian minister and does occasional preaching and adult Christian education. Teresa Okure, SHCJ, a graduate from the University of Ibadan, La Sorbonne, École Biblique of Jerusalem, and Fordham University (Ph.D.), is Professor of New Testament and Gender Hermeneutics at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She is or has been a member of the executive committees of several associations, including EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, as Executive Secretary), the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS), and the Society for New Testament Studies (SNTS). She published more than 100 articles and six books including The Johannine Approach to Mission: a Contextual Study of John 4:1-42 (1988), ed. Evaluating the Inculturation of Christianity in Africa (1990) and ed. To Cast Fire upon the Earth: Bible and Mission. Collaborating in Today’s Multicultural Global Context (2000). Archie Chi_Chung Lee, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. A specialist of cross-textual hermeneutics, especially Chinese text and the post-exilic biblical tradition. He is the author of several books including A Commentary on the Book of Koheleth, (in Chinese 1990), Doing Theology with Asian Resources: Ten Years in the Formation of Living Theology in Asia (1993, ed.) and Interpretation of the Megilloth (in Chinese 2003) and numerous articles including "Genesis One and the Plagues Tradition in Ps. 105," Vetus Testamentum, 40, (1990): 257-263, "Biblical Interpretation in Asian Perspective," Asia Journal of Theology, 7, (1993): 35-39, "The Chinese Creation Myth of Nu Kua and the Biblical Narrative in Genesis 1-11," Biblical Interpretation 2 (1994): 312-324, "Cross-Textual Hermeneutics on Gospel and Culture". Asia Journal of Theology 10 (1996): 38-48 and "Biblical Interpretation of the Return in the Postcolonial Hong Kong," Biblical Interpretation, 9 (1999): 164-173.
Dube, Musa W. “Methods of Interrogating HIV and AIDS in Biblical Studies.” In Handbook of Theological Education in Africa, edited by Isabel A. Phiri, Dietrich Werner, Priscille Djomhoué, and James Amanze, 653–61. Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2013.
Dube, Musa W. “Methods Pour Integrer le VIH/SIDA dans Les Etudes Bibliques.” In Vaincre le VIH/SIDA: Jalons Pour de Nouvelles Methodologies de l’enseingement Theologique en Afrique, 45–65. Haho: TOGO, 2004.
Dube, Musa W. “Mositi Torontle (1964– ).” In Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Siga F. Jagne and Pushpa N. Parekh, 466–70. New York: Routledge, 1998.
AbstractMositi Torontle was born and raised in Francistown, Botswana. She is a graduate of the University of Botswana with a B.A. Hum. (1989) and a teacher by profession. She is actively involved in the Botswana Writers Association, the church, women issues, and singing. The Victims was Torontle’s first major work. She has published several short stories in the monthly journal Kutlwano. She has also published several poems in various journals and books.
Dube, Musa W. “Mositi Torontle: Except from The Victims.” In Botswana Women Write, edited by Maitseo M. M. Bolaane, Mary S. Lederer, Leloba S. Molema, and Connie Rapoo, 53–56. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2019.
AbstractThe article explores biblical texts and African oratures, foregrounding new questions concerning HIV and AIDS and the various context of precolonial, struggle for independence, post-independence, cold war and globalization. The story of Mark 5: 21-43 is read within these various contexts, underlining the possibility of liberation through the trope of resurrection.
Dube, Musa W. “Ntwa e Bolotse” Botswana Women, Men and HIV&AIDS.” In The Faith Sector and HIV/AIDS in Botswana: Responses and Challenges, edited by Lovemore Togarasei, Sana Mmolai, and F. Nkomazana, 208–30. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2011.
Dube, Musa W. “On Being an HIV-Positive Church and Doing Theology in an HIV- World.” In Vulnerability, Churches, and HIV, edited by Göran Gunner, 2–23. Church of Sweden: Research Series 1. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2009.
AbstractThe HIV pandemic has caused serious challenges for the Church as well as for theology. The pandemic has brought enormous human suffering to individuals and has affected families and entire societies. In this context, churches need to listen and to learn, and not least to respond, to thereby mold their own actions and futures. In so doing, this book aims to enable churches to become more HIV and AIDS competent. Vulnerability, Churches, and HIV includes two kinds of contributions. First, researchers present their thoughts about theology, the church, and HIV. A pastoral letter from the bishops of the Church of Sweden provides a second perspective. The letter makes recommendations to decision-making bodies, patent holders, and decision makers in the pharmaceutical industry. The letter also guides parishes and church workers.Contributors include editor Göran Gunner, Musa W. Dube, Susanne Rappmann, Kenneth R. Overberg, Edwina Ward, and the bishops of the Church of Sweden. The book is the first volume in the Church of Sweden Research Series.CONTRIBUTORS:Prof. Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana;Dr. Edwina Ward, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa;Prof. Kenneth R. Overberg, Xavier University, USA;Dr. Susanne Rappman, Sweden;Archbishop Anders Wejryd, Church of Sweden, Sweden.Göran Gunner is a researcher at the Church of Sweden Research Department and an associate professor at the University of Uppsala. He is author and editor of several books in Swedish about freedom of religion and other human rights issues.
Dube, Musa W. “Postcolonial African Feminisms: A Reading of Women Characters in Boleo.” In Amantle A Collection of Critical Writing on Botswana Literature, edited by Barolong Seboni, 2016.
Dube, Musa W. “Postcolonial Botho/Ubuntu: Transformative Readings of Ruth in the Botswana Urban Space.” In Transformative Readings of the Bible, edited by L. Juliana Claassens, Christl M. Maier, and Funlọla O. Ọlọjẹde, 161–83. The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Dube, Musa W. “Postcolonial Feminist Perspective African Indigenous Religion(s) 1.” In Gender and African Indigenous Religions, edited by Musa W. Dube, Telesia K. Musili, and Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, 23–38. London: Routledge, 2024.
AbstractThe chapter underlines and highlights ways of mainstreaming gender and decoloniality into the study of African Indigenous Religions. The chapter is an important introduction to the untutored by laying out the vital structures of African Indigenous Religions while highlighting points of gender-sensitive aspects. The chapter identifies the main structure of African Indigenous Religion/s as consisting of the Divine, Ancestors, and the Earth Community. It underlines that in West African cosmology, the Divine is followed by gods and goddesses, who precede ancestors. The paper investigates how gender was conceptualized across these key areas. It also highlights how the colonial history impacted the African worldview and shifted gender towards a patriarchal worldview, hence underlining decolonization as vital to the study of African Indigenous Religion/s.
Dube, Musa W. “Postcolonial Feminist Perspectives on African Religions.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions, 127–39, 2012.
AbstractIntroductionProblematizing of Frameworks of AIR(s)Community, Postcolonialism, and FeminismThe Future of Feminist African Religion
Dube, Musa W. “Postcolonialism & Liberation.” In Handbook of U.S. Theologies of Liberation, edited by Miguel A. De La Torre, 288–94. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2004.
Dube, Musa W. “Postcoloniality, Feminist Spaces, and Religion.” In Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Religious Discourse, edited by Laura E. Donaldson and Kwok Pui-Lan, 100–120. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Dube, Musa W. “Postkolonialität, Feministische Räume und Religion,”.” In Postkoloniale Theologien.Bibelhe rmeneutische und kulturwissenschaftiche Beiträge., edited by Simon Tielesch and Andreas Nehring, 91–111. Kohlhammer, 2018.
AbstractThe chapter explores the construction of space, postcoloniality, religion and gender among African writers.
Dube, Musa W. “Postkolonialität, Feministische Räume und Religion.” In Postkoloniale Theologien: Bibelhermeneutische und kulturwissenschaftiche Beiträge, edited by Andreas Nehring and Simon Wiesgickl, 91–111. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013.
AbstractDie postkoloniale Theologie ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem der wichtigsten und innovativsten Felder innerhalb der interkulturellen Theologie avanciert. TheologInnen aus Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika haben begonnen, die Konstruktionen postkolonialer Identitäten theologisch zu reflektieren. Dabei nehmen sie Bezug auf kulturwissenschaftliche Diskurse, die in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen haben. Bislang sind allerdings postkoloniale theologische Entwürfe im deutschsprachigen Raum weitgehend unbekannt geblieben. Dieser Band führt zunächst in die Entwicklungsgeschichte und gegenwärtige zentrale Positionen der postkolonialen Theologie ein. Daran anschließend werden die wichtigsten Aufsätze aus den letzten Jahren erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung publiziert, um Studierenden und allen Interessierten den Zugang zu dieser theologischen Richtung zu erleichtern.
Dube, Musa W. “PREFACE II: Journeys of Women in Religion and Feminist Theology in Southern Africa.” In Nehanda : Women’s Theologies of Liberation in Southern Africa, edited by Nelly Mwale, Rosinah Gabaitse, and Dorothy Tembo, Circle Jubilee Volume 3:17–26. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2024.
Dube, Musa W. “PREFACE : The Quest for Theological Wisdom Following the Footsteps of the Queen of Sheba, Mama Walatta Petros and Kimpa Vita in the Quest for Feminist/Womanist Theological Space.” In Queen of Sheba : East and Central African Women’s Theologies of Liberation, Circle Jubilee Volume 2:11–21. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2024.
Dube, Musa W. “Psalm 23: An Autobiographical and Intertextual Reading.” In Psalms: My Psalm My Context, edited by Athalya Brenner-Idan and Gale A. Yee, 1st ed., 52–58. Texts@contexts. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024.
AbstractThe opening of Psalm 23 is captivating and remains one of the most memorable citations in the collection of world literature and scriptures. It states that, ‘God is my Shepherd, I shall lack nothing’ (v. 1, my translation). The rest of what follows, in my view, elaborates the opening statement, with many more powerful, memorable, and beautiful sentences. The opening statement is, therefore, the theme and meaning of the whole psalm. The power of the statement can be located, perhaps, in three factors for the believing reader who identifies with David the psalmist. First, the assurance that one is not alone; rather one has a shepherd. The image of a shepherd articulates continuous presence of someone or something that looks out for you. Second, the identity of the shepherd, who is named as God, is awesome. While shepherds come in all sorts of classes, genders, ages, and cultures, the idea (generally of low class) that God, the Creator of the universe and the ultimate power of goodness, cares so much so that God takes up the role of being ‘my Shepherd’ is overwhelmingly humbling, assuring, and powerful. It also asserts the importance of each person of faith who reads the Psalm. The third, and perhaps a logical part, is of course the assertion and assurance that this shepherd cares and ensures that all my needs are met, not just now, but also for the rest of my days – ‘I shall lack nothing!’ To fulfill such a role consistently, the shepherd cares for both the flock and its pastures. Psalm 23 is my favorite psalm for reasons stated here and many more. In this essay, I share my historical, autobiographical, and contextual journeys with Psalm 23 and its musical afterlives in Botswana....
Dube, Musa W. “Rahab Is Hanging out a Red Ribbon: One African Woman’s Perspective on the Future of Feminist New Testament Scholarship.” In Feminist New Testament Studies: Global and Future Perspectives, edited by Musa W. Dube, Kathleen O’Brien Wicker, and Althea Spencer Miller, 177–202. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Dube, Musa W. “Rahab Says Hello to Judith: A Decolonizing Feminist Reading.” In The Postcolonial Biblical Reader, edited by Rasiah S. Sugirtharajah, 142–58. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
AbstractThis wide-ranging reader provides a comprehensive survey of the interaction between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies. It examines how various empires such as the Persian and Roman affected biblical narratives. It demonstrates how different biblical writers such as Paul, Matthew and Mark handled the challenges of empire. It includes examples of the practical application of postcolonial criticism to biblical texts. It considers contemporary issues such as diaspora, race, representation and territory. It features editorial commentary that draws out the key points to be made and creates a coherent narrative. - Theoretical practices -- Empires old and new -- Empire and exegesis -- Postcolonial concerns
Dube, Musa W. “Rahab Says Hello to Judith: Postcolonial Feminist Hermeneutics of Liberation.” In Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth : Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, edited by Fernando F. Segovia, 54–72. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2003.
Dube, Musa W. “Re-Reading the Bible: Biblical Hermeneutics and Social Justice.” In African Theology Today, edited by Emmanuel M. Katongole, Vol. 1. African Theology Today Series. Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2002.
AbstractThis book brings together twelve essays on a wide and rich range of topics, discussions and methodologies in African theology today. Even the book's limitations provide an insight into the situation: its variety also indicates the absence of comprehensive and sustained discussion flowing from the economic and institutional limitation of Africa where research in theology is often beyond the means of many theologians. Then there is the difficulty of staying abreast of continually changing contexts and events in Africa itself. For all of these reasons then, a compelling introduction to a dynamic analysis and conversation.
Dube, Musa W. “Reader-Oriented Criticism.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, edited by Julia M. O’Brien, 2:152–60. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Dube, Musa W. “Reading for Decolonization (John 4: 1-42).” In Voices from the Margin : Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, edited by Rasiah S. Sugirtharajah, 297–319. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2006.
Dube, Musa W. “Reading for Liberating Interdependence.” In The Modern Theologians Reader, edited by David F. Ford and Mike Higton. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Dube, Musa W. “Religion, Race, Gender and Identity.” In Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Philosophy: An Introduction for African Universities, edited by James N. Amanze, F. Nkomazana, and O. N. Kealotswe, 107–14. Aldoret: Zapf Chancery Publishers Africa Ltd., 2012.
Dube, Musa W. “Rhodes Must Fall: Postcolonial Perspectives on Christian Mission.” In Theologie Und Postkolonialismus, edited by Sebastian Pittl, 83–100. Weltkirche Und Mission 10. Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2018.
Dube, Musa W. “Sankofa 2024: Multi-Axial Sankofa Journeys, Dreams, and Dances.” In Gender and African Indigenous Religions, edited by Musa W. Dube, Telesia K. Musili, and Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, 3–22. London: Routledge, 2024.
AbstractThe article theorizes the Ghanaian Sankofa symbol and applies the framework to assess the work of the Circle of African Women Theologians in the past thirty-five years (1989–2023). It is highlighted that the Sankofa symbol denotes movement and activity in the cosmology and African Indigenous Religious and cultural thought, for history, culture, spirituality, economics, and political relationships, among others, are not regarded as static. It is proposed that the Sankofa philosophical framework entails a three-time framework: namely, the present, the past, and the future, which are repeated multiple times on the journey of life, reading, interpretation, and theologizing. The Sankofa symbol also denotes the interconnection between these three phases of life. The article thus assesses The Circle of African Women’s Theologian’s multiple Sankofa acts in African Indigenous Religions in the past thirty-five years. The work of women from East, West, South, and the African diaspora is assessed, and their major ideas are highlighted.
Dube, Musa W. “Savior of the World but Not of This World: A Post-Colonial Reading of Spatial Construction in John.” In The Post-Colonial Bible, edited by Rasiah S. Sugirtharajah, 118–35. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
Dube, Musa W. “Savior of the World but Not of This World: A Postcolonial Reading of Spatial Construction in John.” In Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, edited by Rasiah S. Sugirtharajah, 118–35. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.
AbstractThis substantially revised edition has been expanded to include 16 new essays and a new section on postcolonial readings of scripture. It also contains a new introduction and an afterword by the editor, calling attention to new developments in biblical interpretation.
Dube, Musa W. “Scripture, Feminism and Post-Colonial Contexts.” In Women’s Sacred Scriptures, 45–54. London, 1998.
Dube, Musa W. “Speaking the Unspeakable: The Power of Biographies of People Living with HIV and AIDS.” In Mother Earth, Mother Africa: World Religions and Environmental Imagination, edited by Sophia Chirongoma and Ven. Scholar Wayua, 229–52. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media, 2022.
AbstractEver since independence from Britain in 1966, Lesotho has been an experimental laboratory of various governance models. The country has experienced multi-party models, plain dictatorships, one-party dominated models, military juntas and, recently, coalition governments. The advent of coalition politics since 2012 has brought a paradigmatic shift in the entire socio-political landscape in the country. This era has, hitherto, largely remained under-studied. Coalition Politics in Lesotho is the first book-long study specifically dedicated to this significant era in the country's history. Edited by the two leading politico-legal scholars on Lesotho, the book is a multi-disciplinary study of the implications of coalitions for governance and development.
Dube, Musa W. “Spirit Liberating the Word: Reading the Gendered African Pentecostal Bible.” In Pentecostalism and Human Rights in Contemporary Zimbabwe, edited by Francis Machingura, Lovemore Togarasei, and Ezra Chitando, 56–71. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Dube, Musa W. “Talitha Cum Hermeneutics of Liberation: Some African Women’s Ways of Reading the Bible.” In Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations, edited by Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora Mbuwayesango, 29–42. SBL Press, 2012.
Dube, Musa W. “Talitha Cum! A Postcolonial Feminist & HIV/AIDS Reading of Mark 5:21- 43.” In Grant Me Justice! : HIV/AIDS & Gender Readings of the Bible, edited by Musa W. Dube and Musimbi Kanyoro, 115–40. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 2004.
Dube, Musa W. “Talitha Cum! Calling the Girl-Child and Women to Life in the HIV/AIDS and Globalization Era.” In Talitha Cum! : The Grace of Solidarity in a Globalized World by Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, 8–27. Geneva: World Student Christian Fellowship Publications, 2004.
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Dube, Musa W. “Talitha Cum! Some African Women’s Ways of Reading the Bible.” In Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, edited by S. Schultz. Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014.
Dube, Musa W. “The Bible in the Bush: The First Literate Batswana Bible Readers.” In Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation, edited by Katherine M. Hockey and David Horrell, 168–82. T & T Clark, 2018.
AbstractReligion, ethnicity and race are facets of identity that have become increasingly contested. The modern discipline of biblical studies developed in the context of Western Europe, concurrent with the emergence of various racial and imperial ideologies. The essays in this volume deal both with historical facets of ethnicity and race in antiquity, in particular in relation to the identities of Jews and Christians, and also with the critique of scholarly ideologies and racial assumptions which have shaped biblical studies.
Dube, Musa W. “The Cry of Rachel: African Women’s Reading of the Bible for Healing.” In The Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma, edited by Mohammed Girma. Lexington Books, 2018.
AbstractAfrica has seen many political crises ranging from violent political ideologies, to meticulous articulated racist governance system, to ethnic clashes resulting in genocide and religious conflicts that have planted the seed of mutual suspicion.The masses impacted by such crises live with the past that has not passed. The Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically Induced Trauma examines Christian responses to the damaging impact of conflict on the collective memory. Troubled memory is a recipe for another cycle of conflict. While most academic works tend to stress forgiving and forgetting, they did not offer much as to how to deal with the unforgettable past. This book aims to fill this gap by charting an interdisciplinary approach to healing the corrosive memories of painful pasts. Taking a cue from the empirical expositions of post-apartheid South Africa, post-genocide Rwanda, the Congo Wars, and post-Red Terror Ethiopia, this volume brings together coherent healing approaches to deal with traumatic memory.
Dube, Musa W. “The Fifteen Commandments.” In Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization, edited by Steve Heinrichs, 47–51. Manitoba: CommonWord, 2019.
AbstractFor generations, the Bible has been employed by settler colonial societies as a weapon to dispossess Indigenous and racialized peoples of their lands, cultures, and spiritualties. Given this devastating legacy, many want nothing to with it. But is it possible for the exploited and their allies to reclaim the Bible from the dominant powers? Can it serve as an instrument for justice in the cause of the oppressed? Even a nonviolent weapon toward decolonization? In Unsettling the Word, over 60 Indigenous and Settler authors come together to wrestle with the Scriptures, rereading and re-imagining the ancient text for the sake of reparative futures.
Dube, Musa W. “The HIV&AIDS Decalogue Preamble.” In The HIV & AIDS Bible: Selected Essays. University of Scranton Press, 2018.
AbstractThe article uses the format of ten commandments to give 10 critical issueds of HIV and AIDS engagements
Dube, Musa W. “The Pentecostal Kairos: Methodological and Theoretical Implications.” In Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe, edited by Lovemore Togarasei, 223–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Abstract[republication] The massive growth of Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCCs) constitutes a Pentecostal kairos in the global history of the Christian movement. In its current form, the Pentecostal movement spreads itself into politics, economics, cultural and social spheres, interacting with various disciplines all at once. Yet the massive growth and impact of PCCs has not attracted equivalent attention from scholars of religion in the African continent. This article highlights the PCCs’ kairos and the pentecostalisation of religion and society. It also challenges African scholars of religion to undertake interdisciplinary collaborative research projects in order to make meaningful contributions to the methods and theoretical implications for teaching religion in the PCCs kairos
Dube, Musa W. “The Unpublished Letters of Orpah to Ruth.” In Ruth and Esther, edited by Athalya Brenner, 145–50. Feminist Companion to the Bible, Second Series 3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.
AbstractD. presents fictional letters of Orpah to Ruth, which would never have been preserved because they reflect an oral culture. Those letters depict Orpah as one who returned to her own older mother, just as Ruth followed Naomi, her older mother-in-law. See also #1854. [Abstracted by: Jon L. Berquist.] Abstract Number: OTA24-2001-OCT-1857
Dube, Musa W. “Theological Education: HIV/AIDS and Other Challenges in the New Millennium.” In Theological Education in Contemporary Africa, edited by Grant LeMarquand and Joseph D. Galgalo, 105–30. Eldoret: Zapf Chancery, 2004.
Dube, Musa W. “To Pray the Lord’s Prayer in the Global Economic Era (Matt. 6:9-13).” In The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends, edited by Musa W. Dube and Gerald O. West, 611–30. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
Dube, Musa W. “Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible.” In Semeia 78: Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Phyllis A. Bird, Katharine D. Sakenfeld, and Sharon H. Ringe, 1997.
Dube, Musa W. “Towards a Post-Colonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible.” In An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology, edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Jeffrey W. Bailey, and Craig Hovey, 585–99. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.
Dube, Musa W. “Towards a Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible.” In Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology, edited by Pui-lan Kwok, I:89–102. Women and Christianity: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2010.
Dube, Musa W. “Towards a Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible: A Motswana Perspective.” In Abstracts: American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature 1995, 148–49. Geneva: Scholars Press, 1995.
Dube, Musa W. “Towards Postcolonial Feminist Translations of the Bible.” In Reading Ideologies: Essays on the Bible and Interpretation in Honor of Mary Ann Tolbert, edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew and Mary Ann Tolbert, 215–39. The Bible in the Modern World 40. Sheffield: Phoenix Press, 2011.
Dube, Musa W. “Twenty-Two Years of Bleeding and Still the Princess Sings.” In Grant Me Justice! : HIV/AIDS & Gender Readings of the Bible, edited by Musa W. Dube and Musimbi Kanyoro, 50–63. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 2004.
Dube, Musa W. “Villagizing, Globalizing and Biblical Studies.” In Reading the Bible in the Global Village: Cape Town, edited by Justin Ukpong, Musa W. Dube, Gerald O. West, M. Alpheus Masoga, K. Norman Gottwald, Jeremy Punt, Tinyiko S. Maluleke, and Vincent L. Wimbush, 41–63. SBL - Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 3. Atlanta: SBL, 2002.
AbstractThe 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.
Dube, Musa W. “We Pray, We Give Hope. The Faith Sector’s Response to HIV and AIDS in Botswana.” In The Faith Sector and HIV/AIDS in Botswana: Responses and Challenges, edited by Lovemore Togarasei, Sana Mmolai, and F. Nkomazana, 208–30. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2011.
Dube, Musa W. “What I Have Written I Have Written.” In Interpreting the New Testament in Africa, edited by Mary N. Getui, Samuel Tinyiko Maluleke, and Justin S. Ukpong, 145–63. Nairobi: Acton Publishers, 2002.
Dube, Musa W. “Woman, What Have I to Do With You? (John 2:1-11): A Post-Colonial Feminist Theological Reflection on the Role of Christianity in Development, Peace and Reconstruction.” In The Role of Christianity in Development, Peace and Reconstruction, edited by Isabel A. Phiri, Kenneth R. Ross, and James Cox, 244–58. Nairobi: AACC, 1996.
Dube, Musa W. “Youth Masculinities and Violence in a HIV and AIDS Context: Sketches from Botswana Cultures and Pentecostal Churches.” In Redemptive Masculinities: Men, HIV and Religion. Geneva: WCC., edited by Ezra Chitando, 323–54. Geneva: WCC, 2012.
AbstractChurches need to engage with men in order to transform dangerous ideas about manhood in Africa. The HIV epidemic calls for the immediate action on attitudes to sex and sexual violence (Chitando 2007: 46). In the age of HIV and AIDS, masculinity and
Dube, Musa W., and Abel Tabalaka. “Bible Translations for Children: A Philosophical and Ideological Interrogation.” In The Bible and Children in Africa, edited by Lovemore Togarasei and Joachim Kügler, 144–53. Bible in Africa Studies 17. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2014.
Dube, Musa W., and et al. “Mother Economies: Botho//Ubuntu and Community Building in the Urban Space, A Focus on Naomi//Laban, Bridal and Baby Shower.” In Essays in Honor of Mercy Amba Oduyoye, edited by Lilian Siwila, n.d.
Dube, Musa W., and Jeffrey L. Staley. “Descending from and Ascending into Heaven: A Postcolonial Analysis of Travel, Space and Power in John.” In John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space, and Power, edited by Musa W. Dube and Jeffrey L. Staley, 1–10. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
Dube, Musa W., and Johanna Stiebert, eds. “Introduction.” In The Bible, Centres and Margins: Dialogues between Postcolonial African and British Biblical Scholars, 1–6. London: T & T Clark, 2018.
Dube, Musa W., and Malebogo T. Kgalemang. “Social and Political Context.” In Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1:364–75. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
Dube, Musa W., and Musimbi Kanyoro, eds. “Grant Me Justice: Towards Gender-Sensitive Multi-Sectoral HIV/AIDS Readings of the Bible.” In Grant Me Justice!: HIV/AIDS and Gender Readings of the Bible, 3–26. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2004.
Dube, Musa W., ed. “Methods of Integrating HIV/AIDS in Biblical Studies.” In HIV/AIDS and the Curriculum: Methods of Integrating HIV/AIDS InTheological Programmes, 10–23. Geneva: WCC, 2003.
Dube, Musa W., ed. “Social Location as a Story-Telling Method of Teaching in HIV/AIDS Contexts.” In HIV/AIDS and the Curriculum: Methods of Integrating HIV/AIDS InTheological Programmes, 101–12. Geneva: WCC, 2003.
Dube, Musa W., ed. “The Prophetic Method in the New Testament.” In HIV/AIDS and the Curriculum: Methods of Integrating HIV/AIDS InTheological Programmes, 43–58. Geneva: WCC, 2003.
Dube, Musa W., ed. “Towards Multi-Sectoral Teaching in a Time of HIV/AIDS.” In HIV/AIDS and the Curriculum: Methods of Integrating HIV/AIDS InTheological Programmes, vii–xii. Geneva: WCC, 2003.
Dube, Musa W., Paul L. Leshota, and Musa W. Dube, eds. ““Migration and Identities in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers.” In Breaking the Master’s S.H.I.T. Holes: Doing Theology in the Context of Global Migration, 49–166. Contact Zone. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2021.
AbstractThe Trump neo-liberal and global warming era has intensified migration, highlighting the diasporic space and global structures as the context of theological inquiry. It is signified by the rise of overt sexism, racism, classism, anthropocentricism, Islamophobia and intensified conservatism that determine who crosses the boundaries, the terms of their crossing and the hospitality they receive. President Trump's shocking statement that characterized some Two-Thirds World countries as S.H.I.T. Holes as well as his travel ban policies that targeted countries of particular religious faith, attest to overt racism. In this volume, African theological scholars challenge euro-centric racist-global immigration policies and propose the paradigm of breaking the master's S.H.I.T. Holes.
Gudhlanga, Enna S., Josephine Muganiwa, and Musa W. Dube. “Introduction: Creative Art, Gender and Religion as Mitigatory Agents to the Global Environmental Crisis.” In African Literature, Mother Earth and Religion, edited by Enna S. Gudhlanga, Josephine Muganiwa, and Musa W. Dube. Malaga: Vernon Press, 2022.
Molato, Kenosi, and Musa W. Dube. “The Christic Okavango Delta of Botswana.” In Mother Earth, Mother Africa: World Religions and Environmental Imagination, edited by Sophia Chirongoma and Ven. Scholar Wayua, 37–55. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media, 2022.
AbstractEver since independence from Britain in 1966, Lesotho has been an experimental laboratory of various governance models. The country has experienced multi-party models, plain dictatorships, one-party dominated models, military juntas and, recently, coalition governments. The advent of coalition politics since 2012 has brought a paradigmatic shift in the entire socio-political landscape in the country. This era has, hitherto, largely remained under-studied. Coalition Politics in Lesotho is the first book-long study specifically dedicated to this significant era in the country's history. Edited by the two leading politico-legal scholars on Lesotho, the book is a multi-disciplinary study of the implications of coalitions for governance and development.
Njoroge, Nyambura J., and Musa W. Dube. “Little Girl, Get Up: An Introduction.” In Talitha Cum!: Theologies of African Women, 3–24. Natal: Cluster, 2001.
AbstractThis volume highlights some of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians strategies. Circle ways of doing theology seek to confront all the factors that deny African women their human rights and dignity. It offers penetrating critiques of widely accepted theological frameworks, showing how embedded they are in colonial and patriarchal discourses. Pledges contained to transforming power come through the framework of Talitha Cum, the little girl who was called back to the circle of life.
West, Gerald O., and Musa W. Dube. “Introduction.” In The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends, edited by Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube, 1–8. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
AbstractAlthough the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own.
The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation.
The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print.
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