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Poverty in the book of Proverbs : an African transformational hermeneutic of proverbs on poverty / Lechion Peter Kimilike
Livre
Edited by P. Lang. New York - 2008
African Biblical hermeneutics and the poverty of challenge. Is there a new poverty paradigm in the Book of Proverbs?. Staggering questions on the interpreter's context in studies. Primary transformational consideration on African proverbs. Strategy in the interpretation of Biblical proverbs. The structure of the book. The nature of the sources for the study. Scope and limitations of the study. Africa today : leave no poor kinsfolk behind!. Western interpretations of poverty in the Book of Proverbs. Contemporary responses to the challenge of poverty in Africa. Challenging poverty through returning to African values. African proverbs on poverty. The transformative nature of African proverbs on poverty. Prospects for progress for post-independent 21st century Africa. Cross-cultural models in Biblical interpretation. Compatibility of Old Testament and African proverbs. Apparent worldview similarities. Criteria for the choice of particular Old Testament proverbs. Social interrelationships and poverty in Proverbs 13:7, 13:18, 19:7, and 21:13. Economic determinants of poverty in Proverbs 13:23, 22:16, 23:10-11, and 28:8. The political situations concerning poverty in Proverbs 22:7, 28:3, 28:15, and 29:14. The religious orientation regarding poverty in Proverbs 14:31, 17:5, 22:2, and 29:13. 'Tying the knot'. The need to bring the Old Testament and Africa together. Implications for the teaching of the Old Testament in Africa.