Structuralism and Deconstruction in Biblical Scholarship: Annotated Bibliographies by Ernest Jnr Frimpong, Jonathan Edward Tetteh Kuwornu Adjaottor

“…Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology…”
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Challenge of Translating “Snow” In Yoruba Bible and Its Influence on Congregational Singing Among Yoruba Christian Worshipers by Gabriel Oyeniyi

“…Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology…”
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Christian Faith and Akan Culture in Ghana: A Review of Major Works of Sidney George Williamson by Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong

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Abanpredease Christology: A Christological Interpretation of Dormaahene’s Chieftaincy Appellations by Isaac Boaheng

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African Reading of Psalm 24:3-6: The Implications for the Enforcement of Morality among Christians in Africa. by Joseph Gyanvi-Blay, Emmanuel Twumasi-Ankrah

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African Christian Theology and Christology: A Study of the Contributions of Kwame Bediako, John S. Mbiti, Justin Ukpong and Charles Nyamiti by Edward Agboada

“…The objective was to decipher how their scholarship has advanced the African context for Christian theology, christology and biblical hermeneutics in Africa. The study discovered that since the rise in the need to identify and make an African contribution to the continuous nomenclatures of Christian theology, christology and biblical hermeneutics that recognize the African experience as a critical necessity in the search for a more wholistic and comprehensive theoretical framework for theology, christology and biblical hermeneutics, these scholars made such a huge contribution not on methodology alone but also on conceptualisation. …”
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Realist Meaning by Mirela Oliva

“… The medieval Biblical hermeneutics universalizes the notion of meaning and begins a trend that reaches its peak in contemporary hermeneutics, crossing also into analytic philosophy. …”
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<i>Deus ex Machina</i>? Religious texts, spiritual capital and inequalities: In continuation of a current debate (a response to colleague Farisani) by Christo Lombaard

“…Farisani�s University of South Africa inaugural lecture of 03 September 2013, �Dispelling myths about African biblical hermeneutics: The role of current trends in African biblical hermeneutics in the post-apartheid South Africa� was re-presented as �Current trends and patterns in African Biblical Hermeneutics in postapartheid South Africa: Myth or Fact?…”
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Review of Kevin DeYoung’s What does the Bible really teach about homosexuality? by James E. Phelan

“…Although the book is written by a theologian, it is easy to read even in part 1 where DeYoung discusses his own biblical hermeneutics in simplest terms. Part 2 is objection handling which he does with graceful rebuttal. …”
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Reading the resurrection appearance at the lakeside through lenses of sensing and intuition by Leslie J. Francis, Adam Stevenson

“…This study forms part of a research project designed to test the sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics in respect of a wide range of biblical passages. …”
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The logos Christology in the fourth gospel (Jn 1:1–5, 14): A soteriological response to an Ewe cosmic prayer by Daniel Sakitey, Ernest van Eck

“…The article employs a combination of the exegetical and mother tongue biblical hermeneutics as its methodologies. The article compares the concept of the logos in John 1:1–5, 14 with a similar concept in Ewe cosmology with the aim of finding their points of convergence and divergence. …”
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Foregrounding African Ontology/Epistemology: A Reading of Deuteronomy 23:3 and Ruth 4:18–22 Considering the Nature of God by Ntozakhe Simon Cezula

“…Accordingly, Andrew Mbuvi identifies African Biblical Hermeneutics perfectly when he says it seeks to undo “the very construct of the ‘centre-periphery’ binary by allowing the possibility of multiple centres”). …”
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Engaging Jungian function-orientations in a hermeneutical community: Exploring John 11: 1–17 by Leslie J. Francis, Greg Smith, Adam J. Stevenson, Andrew Village

“…Contribution: The SIFT method, situated within the reader perspective approach to biblical hermeneutics, is concerned with attending to the influence exerted by the psychological type profile of the reader on interpreting the text. …”
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The Political Reading of the Bible and an Application to Thomas Hobbes’s Interpretation of the Book of Samuel by Jorge Alfonso

“…At the end, as an example, the author critizes Hobbes’s interpretation of the Books of Samuel, which is controversial for not taking into account essential aspects of Biblical hermeneutics.…”
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Ricoeur and the bible by Marcelino Agís Villaverde

“… This article briefly presents the relationship between philosophy and religion in the work of Paul Ricœur, demonstrating how he established a dialogue between both languages, both methodologies – that of philosophy and that of religion – in his philosophical and biblical hermeneutics. The article briefly recaps Ricœur’s personal and intellectual trajectory and the way he dealt with this double allegiance, showing the differences between biblical and philosophical hermeneutics but also their relation in Ricœur’s works …”
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The Virgin Mary motives in polish sermons of the 17th century by Sukhareva Svitlana Volodymyrivna

“…The role of the Virgin Mary’s image in the military, political and polemical prose is underlined. The value of biblical hermeneutics in the Virgin Mary sermons shaping is examined.…”
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Preaching on the revised common lectionary for the feast of Christ the King: Joy for intuitive thinking types, nightmare for sensing feeling types? by Leslie J. Francis, Greg Smith, Jonathan Evans

“…Contribution: Situated within the reader perspective approach to biblical hermeneutics, the SIFT method is concerned with identifying the influence of the psychological type of the reader in shaping the interpretation of text. …”
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La metáfora nupcial desde la mirada sinfónica de Hildegarda de Bingen by Cecilia Avenatti de Palumbo

“…The article intends to interpret Scivias and Symphonia, two works of the corpus of Hildegard von Bingen (theology, mystical and visionary poet of the 12th century Christian, who was proclaimed a doctor of the Church by Benedicto XVI in October 2012), from the biblical hermeneutics developed by Paul Ricoeur around the bridal metaphor. …”
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Reading the Bible in the 21st century: Some hermeneutical principles: Part 2 by Dirk van der Merwe

“…A few remarks on the idiosyncrasy of texts pave the way for the legitimate exploitation of spiritualities (lived experiences) embedded in biblical texts which should be regarded as an addition to �biblical hermeneutics� and which have to serve as a catalyst for the embodiment of the �reading texts�.…”
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Hermeneutiese vertrekpunte vir gereformeerde eksegese by G.J.C. Jordaan, Fika J. van Rensburg, Douw G. Breed

“…This has contributed to the fact that biblical hermeneutics finds itself in an impasse, so that it has become necessary for the reformed hermeneutics to redefine its fundamentals: the hermeneutic premises on which reformed exegesis is founded. …”
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