Third
world voices tend not to distinguish sharply between biblical and theological
readings and practical application (praxis), let alone classically separate Old
and New Testaments, although many scholars have Euro-American theological
educations. The occasional North
America voice speaking for Third World perspectives has also been included below
as a bibliographic resource. The
list cites major players and sources and recurrent points of entry into this
diverse area—recent and present.
There are also published scholars from non-Euro-American backgrounds, or
of minority status (female and male), whose works on standard OT topics are
equally accessible and inclusively listed in such bibliographies as the Book
Lists of the Society for Old Testament Study [REF Z7772 & Z7771
.A1 S65] and A. E. Zannoni, The Old Testament: a bibliography [REF Z 7772
A1 Z36 1992]. Other useful locales
for further bibliographic retrieval is Old Testament Abstracts,
[General, and Literary Forms/Techniques & Methods of Study
sections] and Elenchus of Biblica, especially the sections under Old
Testament: Interpretatio humanistica and Femina, familia, for
similar alternate voices specifically on the Hebrew scriptures. The Library covets more citations for
this on-going bibliographic quest and requests additional findings to be send
along to ref-desk@CTSnet.edu.
GENERAL
SOURCES asterisk (*) &/or
call numbers indicate holdings at
JBCLibrary.
Escobar,
Samuel E. The kingdom and the
third church, Wilmore, KY: Asbury
Theological Seminary, 1990 (sound
cassette)
Hartin, P.
J. Third World challenges in the teaching of biblical studies Claremont,
CA:
Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 1992
*Kwok,
Pui-lan Discovering the Bible in the non-biblical world Maryknoll, N.Y.:
Orbis
Books, 1995.
BS521.4 .K96 1995
*Post
Colonialism and Scriptural Reading, Laura E. Donaldson and R. S.
Sugirtharajah
(eds.) Semeia 75; Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1996.
Reading
from this place: I. Social location and Biblical interpretation in the United
States.
Fernando F. Segovia and Mary Ann Tolbert (eds.)
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
Shaver,
Kenny Reading the Bible through Third World eyes . Abilene, Tex.: Abilene
Christian University Tape Service, 1990
*Voices
from the margin: interpreting the Bible in the Third world. R.S.
Sugirtharajah
(ed). Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995. (The 1991 edition has a few different essays of note). BS476 .V65 1995
West,
Gerald O. “Finding a Place
among the Posts for Post-Colonial Criticism in
Biblical Studies in South Africa,” Old Testament
Essays (South Africa) 10 (1997), 322-42.
WOMEN’S
FOCUS
*Biblical Glamour and Hollywood Glitz,
Alice Bach
(ed.) Semeia, 74; Atlanta: Scholars
Press, 1996.
A
Feminist Companion to reading the Bible: approaches, methods and
strategies,
Athalya Brenner and Carole Fontaine (eds.),
Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.
* Gruber,
Mayer I. Women in the Biblical World: a study guide—Women in the world of
Hebrew
Scripture. ATLA Bibliography Series, No. 38. ATLA & The Scarecrow Press: Lanham,
MD & London, 1995.
[while the bibliography is “about
biblical women” and not always indexed as from a womanist/feminist perspective
or female authorship, a perusal of the listings may retrieve valuable items of
interest.] REF Z7770 .G77 1995
*Inheriting our mothers' gardens feminist theology
in Third World perspective edited by
Letty M.
Russell ... [et al.]. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988. BT704
.I64
1988
Madipoane
Masenya, “Rededfining Ourselves: A Bosadi (Womanhood) Approach,” Old
Testament Essays (South Africa) 10 (1997)
439-48.
*Mishael
Maswari Caspi and Rachel S. Havrelock, Women on the Biblical Road:
Ruth, Naomi, and the Female Journey.
Lanham, MD
and London: University Press of America, 1996. BS1315.2
.C375 1996
*Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from
Africa, Asia, and Latin America,
Phyllis A. Bird, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld &
Sharon H. Ringe (eds.)
Semeia, 78;
Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1997.
Seifert,
Elke Tochter und Vater im Alten Testament: Eine ideologiekritische
Untersuchung zur Verfügungsgewalt von Vätern über
ihre Töchter. Neukirchenerer Verlag,
1997.
Tamez, Elsa
“Reading the Bible from the eyes of the poor: for women, it's not enough
[fr With
passion and compassion: Third World women doing theology],” Other Side 24:24-25 Jl-Ag
1988
*Tamez, Elsa
“Women's rereading of the Bible;” tr by A Partnoy. With passion and
compassion:
Third World women doing theology: reflections from the Women's Commission of the
Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians.; ed by V
Fabella and M Oduyoye, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1988, 173-180. BV639.W7 I58
1986
*Tamez,
Elsa “The women who complicated the
history of salvation [tr B Yeager;
repr],” New
eyes for reading: biblical and theological reflections by women from the Third
World; ed by J Pobee and B Wartenberg-Potter, Oak Park, IL: Meyer Stone
Books, 1987, 5-17.BV639.W7 N49 1987
*Women's
sacred scriptures edited
by Kwok Pui-Lan and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
London: SCM Press ; Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
c1998. BT83.55 .W65 1998
* Zannoni,
A.E. The Old Testament: a bibliography, Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical
Press, 1992, especially, section 47, “Women/Feminist
Hermeneutics,” 207-211. REF Z 7772 A1 Z36
1992.
LATIN AMERICA
*Pixley,
George V. and Boff, Clodovis.
The Bible, the church, and the poor ; translated
from the Spanish and Portuguese by Paul Burns. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1989.
BV639.P6 P5413 1989
*Brown, Robert McAfee Unexpected news: reading the Bible with Third World eyes.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press,
c1984 BS511.2 .B77 1984
*Cardenal, Ernesto. The Gospel in Solentiname; translated by Donald D. Walsh.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
c1976-c1982. BS2555.2 .C27713 1976
*Cardenal,
Ernesto. Psalms; [translated from the sixth edition of 1974 by Thomas Nolan
Blackburn ... et al.] New York: Crossroad, 1981
PQ7519.C34 S314 1981
*Croatto,
J. Severino. Biblical hermeneutics: toward a theory of reading as the
production of meaning; translated from the Spanish by
Robert R. Barr. Maryknoll, N.Y.:
Orbis Books, c1987. BS476 .C7613 1987
*________________. Exodus, a hermeneutics of
freedom; translated from the Spanish by
Salvator Attanasio. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
c1981.BS680.F7 C7613
Discovering
Latino Religion: a comprehensive Social Science
bibliography, Anthony M.
Stevens-Arroyo
with Segundo Pantoja (eds.). New York: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere
Studies, 1995. [the sections on
Theological and Related Publications and Theses and Dissertations may be scanned
for items specific to Old Testament studies.] Ref Z7757 .U5 D57
1995
*Miranda,
José Porfirio. Communism in the Bible; translated from the Spanish by Robert
R. Barr.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1982. BS670
.M551
*________________. Marx against the Marxists: the
Christian humanism of Karl Marx;
translated from the Spanish by John
Drury. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1980.
HX536 .M5413
*________________. Being and the Messiah: the
message of St. John; translated by
John Eagleson Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1977.
BS2601 .M5413
Tamez,
Elsa. Bible of the oppressed /; translated from the Spanish by Matthew J.
O'Connell. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books,
c1982. BS670 .T2613
*_________ “Dear brother Job - a letter from the
dump,” Sojourners 12 No 8:23 S 1983
_________ , and Burns, Paul tr. ‘Job: "Even when I
cry out "violence!" I am not
answered"
[silences and cries in Job]’The return of the plague; ed by J Beozzo, and
others, 55-62
*_________ and Lange-Churi¢n, Pedro tr. “When the horizons close upon
themselves: a
reflection on
the utopian reason of Qohelet [bibliog]” Liberation theologies,
postmodernity, and the Americas; ed by D Batstone, and others, 53-68.
BT83.57 .L483 1997
_________ , and Robert R. Barr, tr. “When horizons close: a reflection
on the utopian
ratio of
Qoheleth,” The future of theology; ed by M Volf, and others, 207-220
*_________ , “Living Wisely in the Midst of
Absurdity: Meditations from the Book of
Ecclesiastes” Church and Society 86:28-42 Mr-Ap
1996.
*_________ “The Preacher & the New World Order:
Ecclesiastes teaches survival in a
world of
closed options.” Other Side
31:22-28 S-O 1995
NATIVE
AMERICAN
Bratton, Susan Power
“Christian ecotheology and the Old Testament,” Religion and
environmental crisis, Eugene C Hargrove. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
1986.
Charleston, Steve
“The Old Testament of Native America,”
Native and Christian:
indigenous voices on religious
identity in the United States and Canada. James
Treat, ed. New York: Routledge,
1996.
Helfand, Jonathan
“The earth is the Lord's,” Religion and environmental crisis, Eugene C
Hargrove. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
1986.
LeBar, Martin “A biblical perspective on nonhuman
organisms,” Religion and
environmental crisis, Eugene C Hargrove. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1986.
Reed, Gerard “A native American environmental ethic,”
Religion and environmental
crisis, Eugene C Hargrove. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
1986.
liberation
theology today,” Christianity and Crisis 49(S 11 1989),
261-265
AFRICAN
(& African
American)
Abotchie Ntreh, Benjamin “Methodological challenges of Old Testament scholarship in
the African context.” Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship no 5 (1998), 2-4
Adamo, David Tuesday.
“Peace in the Old Testament and in the African heritage”. Bible
in African Christianity, The Nairobi: Acton, 1997)p. 99-111
Akao, J O “Word--A Potent Extension of Personality in the Old Testament and African
Belief System.” Bangalore Theological Forum 25 (Je-S 1993), 49-63
Azuwo Onibere, S G “Old Testament sacrifice in African tradition: a case of
scapegoatism.” "Wünschet Jerusalem Frieden" Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1988), 193-203
The Bible in African Christianity: essays in Biblical theology, Nairobi: Acton, 1997.
*Bright, Pamela ‘The Church and the "Mystery of Iniquity": Old Testament Prophecy in
Fourth Century African Exegesis.’ Consensus 23, no 1 (1997), 39-49
Burrow Jr., Rufus “Some characteristics of biblical prophecy: [implications for African
American churches and race relations]” AME Zion Quarterly Review 105 (Ap 1993), 27-31
Copher, C.
B. “3,000 Years of Biblical Interpretation with Reference to Black Peoples,”
The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological
Center 13(2, Spring 1986), 225-46.
Scripture, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 47, 4
(1991), 930-949.
[while
our select bibliography bypasses most South African scholarship as covertly
European in influence and traditional of topic, this piece promises to treat
“Biblical hermeneutics and Black theology in South Africa.” Otherwise, the South African Theological
Bibliography series may be consulted for listings of indigenous OT studies.
REF Z7757 .S6 S68]
*Felder,
Cain Hope “Ancient Ethiopia and the Queen of Sheba.” Troubling biblical
waters: race, class, and
family.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1989 Pages 22-36.
*______________, “Biblical meaning and the black
religious experience.” Troubling
biblical waters: race, class, and
family.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989 Pages 5-21. BS680.B48 F45
1989
*_____________, Troubling biblical waters: race,
class, and family. Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis Books, 1989, c1988.
*Golka, Jonah Friedemann
W. The Leopard's Spots: Biblical and African Wisdom in
Proverbs. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.
Holter, Knut “Symposium in Nairobi, October 1999”: [Africa and the Old Testament]
Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship no 7 (1999), 8-9
_________. “Some recent studies on postcolonialism and biblical scholarship.”
Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship no 5 (1998), 20-23
Manus, Chris Ukachukwu “The concept of death and the after-life in the Old Testament
and Igbo traditional religion: some reflections for contemporary missiology.” Mission Studies 3 No 2 (1986), 41-56
Masenya, Madipoane “A
Mosadi (Woman) Reading of Proverbs 31:10-31.” Newsletter
on African Old Testament Scholarship no 6 (1999), 2-5
Masumbuko, Renju “African traditional religions & Old Testament: continuity or
discontinuity?,” Christianisme et identité africaine Kinshasa, Zaire: Missionwissenschaftliches Inst Missio-AachRn, 1980), 113-118
Mngadi, C S “The significance of blood in Old Testament sacrifices and its relevance for
the church in Africa: [diss abst, Univ of South Africa, 1982].” Theologia Evangelica 15 No 3 (D1982), 66
*Musimbi Kanyoro,
“Interpreting Old Testament polygamy through African eyes.” The
Will to Arise,
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992), 87-100 BV639.W7 W53
1992
Muutuki, Joseph Workshop in Stellenbosch, May 1999: [Old and New Testament
Studies in Africa: Learning from the past and planning for the future]. Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship no 7 (1999), 6-7
Olson, Howard S “The
place of traditional proverbs in pedagogy: [bibliog].” Africa
Theological Journal 10 No 2 (1981), 26-35
Oosthuizen, Rudolph De W. ‘What "African" means for South African Old Testament
scholarship: [bibliog]’. Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship no 5
(1998), 12-19
“Proverbs,” Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship no 6 (1999), 1-15
*Reyburn, William D
“Message of the Old Testament and the African church.” Practical
Anthropology 7 (Jl-Ag 1960), 152-156
*______________. “Sickness, sin, and the curse: the Old Testament and the African
church [pt 2].” Practical Anthropology 7 (S-O 1960), 217-222
*‘"Reading With": An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary
Readings of the Bible: African Overtures’ Semeia no 73 (1996), 1-284
*Rice, G.
“The Curse that Never Was (Genesis 9.18-27),” The Journal of Religious
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Columbus, Ohio: distributed by
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Swanepoel,
M. G. “An encounter between Old Testament theology and African concepts
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*Tropical Africa and
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Knut, comp: Univ of Oslo, 1996.
Tutu, Desmond M “Some African insights and the Old Testament: [cultural parallels],”
Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 1 (D 1972), 16-22
_______________.
“Viability: Some African insights and the Old Testament,” Relevant
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Ukpong, Justin S “Can African Old Testament scholarship escape the historical critical
approach.” Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship no 7 (1999), 2-5
Van Rooy, Jacobus Albertus “God's self-revelation in the Old Testament and African
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Wambutda, D N ‘"Hebrewisms of West Africa": an ongoing search in the correlations
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“Praise in Asia: an interpretation of Psalm 136,” East Asia Journal of
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*__________, “Who is
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Kim. John Mansoo. A comparative study of
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*___________________, A history of the
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[Kenichi Kida “Looking at the Old Testament from the position of the people: the case of the beginnings of Israel”]
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