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SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES ON THE COMPARATIVE PARADIGM IN (SOUTH) AFRICAN BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP

In: Religion and Theology
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GERALD WESTSchool of Religion and Theology University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg Republic of South Africa, Email: west@ukzn.ac.za

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01 Jan 2005
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Abstract

<title> Abstract </title>The comparative paradigmisthemostpervasiveinterpretive framework in Africanbiblical scholarship.Recent work hasattempted to chart the contours of this paradigm and tonote its historicalandhermeneutical development.This articlejoinsthediscussion, by locating SouthAfricanbiblicalscholarshipwithinthis paradigm and by offering an analysis of the comparativeparadigm interms ofits understandingof colonialism.The argument put forwardisthat amore nuancedand complexunderstandingof colonialism may provide new angles of analysis both of the comparative paradigm itself and of the task of African biblical scholarship.

Title:
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES ON THE COMPARATIVE PARADIGM IN (SOUTH) AFRICAN BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/157430105X00121
Language:
English
Pages:
48–72
In:
Religion and Theology
In:
Volume 12: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1574-3012
Print ISSN:
1023-0807
Subjects:
General, Theology and World Christianity, History of Religion, Religious Studies, Religion & Society, Social Sciences

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