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Old Testament Essays

versión On-line ISSN 2312-3621
versión impresa ISSN 1010-9919

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HOLTER, Knut. The role of historical-critical methodology in African Old Testament studies. Old testam. essays [online]. 2011, vol.24, n.2, pp.377-389. ISSN 2312-3621.

Based on the observation that the historical-critical methodology used in mainstream biblical studies reflects 188th to 20th century western epistemology and hermeneutics, the article addresses the role of this methodology in African Old Testament studies as it has developed since 1960. African Old Testament studies - in relation to historical-critical methodology - is then approached in three steps: first its context, with a focus on institutional and methodological perspectives; then its content, with a focus on its preference for comparative perspectives; and finally a critical perspective, with a focus on the potential of historical-critical methodology - at least when consciously used - to express critical concerns vis-à-vis the challenge that faces Old Testament interpretative communities not only in contemporary Africa, but at all times and places, namely to be more than just a mirror of current religious, cultural and political power structures.

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