Postcoloniality, Translation, and the Bible in Africa

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Translating & Interpreting, History, Africa, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: ISBN: 9781498295154
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers Publication: July 14, 2017
Imprint: Pickwick Publications Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781498295154
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Publication: July 14, 2017
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Language: English

This book is critically important for Bible translation theorists, postcolonial scholars, church leaders, and the general public interested in the history, politics, and nature of Bible translation work in Africa. It is also useful to students of gender studies, political science, biblical studies, and history-of-colonization studies. The book catalogs the major work that has been undertaken by African scholars. This work critiques and contests colonial Bible translation narratives by privileging the importance African oral vitality in rewriting the meaning of biblical texts in the African sociopolitical, political, and cultural contexts.

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This book is critically important for Bible translation theorists, postcolonial scholars, church leaders, and the general public interested in the history, politics, and nature of Bible translation work in Africa. It is also useful to students of gender studies, political science, biblical studies, and history-of-colonization studies. The book catalogs the major work that has been undertaken by African scholars. This work critiques and contests colonial Bible translation narratives by privileging the importance African oral vitality in rewriting the meaning of biblical texts in the African sociopolitical, political, and cultural contexts.

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