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Divining the Woman of Endor J. Kabamba Kiboko (Independent Scholar)

Divining the Woman of Endor By J. Kabamba Kiboko (Independent Scholar)

Divining the Woman of Endor by J. Kabamba Kiboko (Independent Scholar)


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Divining the Woman of Endor: African Culture, Postcolonial Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Biblical Translation by J. Kabamba Kiboko (Independent Scholar)

An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called Witch of Endor passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination in this passage and beyond has been mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings. Kiboko argues that the woman of Endor is not a witch. The woman of Endor is, rather, a diviner, much like other ancient Near Eastern and modern African diviners. She resists an inner-biblical conquest theology and a monologic authoritarian view of divination to assist King Saul by various means, including invoking the spirit of a departed person, Samuel. Kiboko carries out a Hebrew word-study shaped by the theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin regarding the utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogism in order to understand the designative, connotative, emotive, and associative meanings of the many divinatory terms in the Hebrew Bible. She then examines 1 Samuel 28 and a number of prior translations thereof, using the ideological framework of African-feminist-postcolonial biblical interpreters and translation theories to uncover the hidden ideology or transcript of these translations. Finally, using African contextual/cultural hermeneutics and cross-cultural translation theory, Kiboko offers new English, French, and Kisanga translations of this passage that are both faithful to the original text and more appropriate to an inculturated-liberation African Christian hermeneutic, theology, and praxis.

Divining the Woman of Endor Reviews

Biblical scholar Jeanne Kabamba Kiboko offers a compelling case for a postcolonial reading of the biblical woman of Endor. In Divining the Woman, a subversive reading of Eurocentric 'conquest exegesis' (230), Kiboko successfully executes her proposition 'to analyze, to resist, and to reconstruct the so-called canonical literature'. * Reading Religion *

About J. Kabamba Kiboko (Independent Scholar)

J. Kabamba Kiboko was the first clergywoman to be ordained elder (1983) in the Southern Congo Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church. She holds a PhD from the University of Denver, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Prologue: A Man-Woman from the Disanga Reads the Bible from a Post-Colonial Place 1. Introduction: Translating Divination and Crossing the Disanga of Life 2. Cross-Dressing Method: Translation at the Disanga of Theory 3. Locating a Path through the Jungle of Divination 4. Crossing the Disanga of Life and Beyond in the Hebrew Bible: A Bakhtinian Word Study of the Language of Divination 5. The Literary Context: Reading 1 Samuel 28 through a Feminist Musanga Contextual / Cultural Lens 6. 1 Samuel 28 at the Disanga: Three Inculturated-Liberation 7. Meeting at the Disanga of Divination: Conclusions and Implications Epilogue: Lessons Learned at the Disanga Bibliography Index

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NLS9780567683892
9780567683892
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Divining the Woman of Endor: African Culture, Postcolonial Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Biblical Translation by J. Kabamba Kiboko (Independent Scholar)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2018-08-23
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