Africa and Africans in the Bible
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Compiled by | Compilé par Samuel K. Bussey, Yoel Koster & Willeke Warner-Zigterman Rustenburg.
Published on 31 March 2025. | Publié le 31 mars 2025.
Adamo, David T. “The Images of Cush in the Old Testament: Reflections on African Hermeneutics.” In Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa: Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999, edited by Mary Getui, Knut Holter, and Victor Zinkuratire, 65–74. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
Atal Sa Angang, Dosithee. “La conversion de l’eunuque Ethiopien (Ac 8, 26-40) ou le destin de la Mission chrétienne en Afrique.” In Universalisme et Mission dans la Bible / Universalism and Mission in the Bible: Actes du Cinquième Congrès des Biblistes Africains / Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of African Biblical Scholars. Abijan, 16-23 July 1991, edited by P. Adeso, Dosithee Atal Sa Angang, P. Buetubela Balembo, L. Nare, Chris Ukachukwu Manus, Sidibe Sempore, Edmond G. Djitangar, and Paulin Poucota, 189–227. Nairobi: Catholic Biblical Centre for Africa and Madagascar (BICAM), 1993.
Bailey, Randall C. “‘Is That Any Name for a Nice Hebrew Boy?’ Exodus 2:1-10: The de-Africanization of an Israelite Hero.” In The Recovery of Black Presence: An Interdisciplinary Exploration: Essays in Honor of Dr. Charles B. Copher, edited by Randall C. Bailey and Jacquelyn Grant, 25–36. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
Bailey, Randall C. “Beyond Identification: The Use of Africans in Old Testament Poetry and Narratives.” In Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, edited by Cain H. Felder, 165–84. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
Bailey, Randall C. “Beyond Identification: The Use of Africans in Old Testament Poetry and Narratives.” In Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, edited by Cain H. Felder, Thirtieth Anniversary Expanded Edition., 185–206. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2021.
Copher, Charles B. “The Black Presence in the Old Testament.” In Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, edited by Cain H. Felder, 146–64. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
Farisani, Elelwani B. “Nimrod: Reading the Bible with South African Eyes.” In African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod, edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Allen Dwight Callahan, 97–109. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Felder, Cain H. “Race, Racism, and the Biblical Narratives.” In Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, edited by Cain H. Felder, 127–45. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
Greene, John T. “Two Courtiers of African Descent in the Kingdom of Judah: Yehudi and Ebedmelech.” In Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora, edited by Ruth Simms Hamilton, Vol. 1. ADRP Series. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2007.
AbstractThis book provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. It addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race. --Back jacket
Habtu, Tewoldemedhin. “The Images of Egypt in the Old Testament: Reflections on African Hermeneutics.” In Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa: Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999, edited by Mary Getui, Knut Holter, and Victor Zinkuratire, 55–64. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
Haynes, Stephen R. “Original Dishonor: The Curse of Ham and the Southern Defense of Slavery.” In Noah’s Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery, 65–86. San Francisco, 2002.
AbstractThis book is a study in the history of biblical interpretation with implications for contemporary social relations. It illumines the religious dimensions of America's racial history by exploring how the book of Genesis has been used to justify slavery, segregation, and the repression of “blacks.” The book focuses on passages in Genesis 9–11 that have been consistently racialized by Bible readers in search of authoritative explanations for the origin and destiny of sub‐Saharan Africans. This often‐overlooked section of the Bible's primeval history includes the tale of Noah and his sons (Gen. 9: 20–27), the legend of the “mighty hunter” Nimrod (Gen. 10: 6–10), and the Tower of Babel story (Gen. 11: 1–10), passages that have contributed profoundly to Euro–American images of “blacks.” The book carefully analyzes the so‐called curse of Ham (or Canaan) recorded in Genesis 9, invoked by antebellum proslavery apologists, and explores the influence of the curse tradition in America before and after the Civil War.
Hays, Daniel J. “Black Soldiers in the Ancient Near East: Ebedmelech Reconsidered.” In Abstracts: American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature 1996, 317. Scholars Press, 1996.
Kitchen, Kenneth. “Egypt and East Africa.” In The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium, edited by Lowell K. Handy, 107–25. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East 11. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
Kitchen, Kenneth. “Sheba and Arabia.” In The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium, edited by Lowell K. Handy, 127–53. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East 11. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
Linton, Olof. “The List of Nations in Acts 2.” In New Testament Christianity for Africa and the World: Essays in Honour of Harry Sawyerr, edited by Mark E. Glasswell and Edward W. Fasholé-Luke, 44–53. London: S.P.C.K., 1974.
Mveng, Engelbert. “La Bible et l’Afrique Noire.” In The Jerusalem Congress on Black Africa and the Bible. April 24-30, 1972, edited by Engelbert Mveng and R. J. Z. Werblowsky, 23–39. Jerusalem: The Israel Interfaith Comittee, 1972.
Sadler, Rodney S. “The Place and Role of Africa and African Imagery in the Bible.” In True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary, edited by Brian K. Blount, Cain Hope Felder, Clarice Jannette Martin, and Emerson B. Powery, 23–30. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2007.
AbstractFrom the intellectual heart of the African American churches comes a pathbreaking commentary that provides biblical interpretation grounded in African American experience and concern. Cutting-edge scholarship calls into question many of the canons of traditional biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery, and African heritage as these play a role in the Christian odyssey of an emancipated people. True to Our Native Land includes full-colour galleries that offer windows into African American art and Africa in the New Testament period
Ullendorff, Edward. “The Queen of Sheba in Ethiopian Tradition.” In Solomon and Sheba, edited by James Pritchard, 104–14. London: Phaidon Press, 1974.
Waters, John W. “Who Was Hagar?” In Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, edited by Cain H. Felder, 187–205. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
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