Nkesela A Maasai Encounter with the Bible

Nomadic Lifestyle as a Hermeneutic Question
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4331-7374-5
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

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This book is a critical analysis of how Maasai informants read some selected Old Testament texts that are thought to have an appeal to people with semi/nomadic ways of life. The Maasai is a Nilotic ethnic group of semi/nomadic pastoralists living in the northern Tanzania, and southern Kenya, East Africa. The book focuses on the parallels between the Maasai and biblical concepts of nomadic lifestyle. On the one hand, the semi/nomadic heritage of the Maasai faces severe cultural and political difficulties when encountering East African modern ways of life. On the other, the ancient Israel actually experienced the opposite, seeing a strengthening of semi/nomadic ways of life. Therefore, the book demonstrates the potentials of the supposed parallels between the two by allowing the experiences of the ancient Israel to contribute to strengthen the semi/nomadic ways of life, a key aspect of traditional Maasai values into the contemporary East African context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nkesela, Zephania Shila

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements – Introduction – Theoretical Perspectives – Reading Old Testament Texts in Maasai Context – Maasai Indigenous Readings in Dialogue with Critical Old Testament Studies: Reflections and Implications – Maasai Experiences and Old Testament Studies in Africa – Concluding Remarks – Appendices – Indexes.

Über Autor(innen)

Zephania Shila Nkesela is General Secretary of Central Diocese, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. The present work is a revised version of his PhD thesis at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, where he was part of VID’s Maasai/Bible Project.