Browsing Open Research Collection by Author "Masenya, Madipoane"

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All from the Same Source? Deconstructing a (male) Anthropocentric Reading of Job(3) through an Eco-bosadi Lens

Masenya, Madipoane (JTSA, 2010)

Using fundamentalism in the interpretation of the Christian Bible is not typical only to the African ecclesiastical settings. It is a global phenomenon. History / Herstory is replete with examples of the dire consequences ...
The Bible, HIV/AIDS and African-South African women: a bosadi (womanhood) perspective

Masenya, Madipoane (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The observation that the Christian Bible has historically played an important role, either for good or for evil, in differing African contexts, be it on the continent or in the Diaspora, cannot be disputed. The reality ...
A Bosadi (Womanhood) reading of Genesis 16

Masenya, Madipoane (2012-02-06)

The received interpretations of the Bible in African context in South Africa have always been foreign. The colonisers not only colonised the land, even the interpretation of the Bible was colonised. The received ...
An Eco (bosadi) reading of Psalm 127:3-7

Masenya, Madipoane (Sheffield, 2001)
Esther and Northern Sotho Stories : an African-South African woman’s commentary

Masenya, Madipoane (2012-02-06)
How worthy is the woman of worth? : a feminist reading of Proverbs 31: 10-31

Masenya, Madipoane (Peter Lang, 2004)

The life of an African-South African woman is shaped by a variety of factors. The phrase ‘African-South African women’ is used in this work to refer to those women who belong to the indigenous peoples of South Africa: the ...
“Invisible Exiles? : an African-South African woman’s reconfiguration of exile in Jeremiah 21:1-10”

Masenya, Madipoane (The Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2007)

The notion of exile is usually linked to a (forced) movement of a per-son from the country of her/his birth to another country. This also underlies the pericope under discussion in the present text, that is, Jer 21:1-10. ...
Is Ruth the "eset hayil" for real? An exploration of womanhood from African proverbs to the threshing floor (Ruth 3:1-13)

Masenya, M. J. (Madipoane Joyce) (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2010)

Contradictory definitions of what a worthy womanhood is, have in many contexts, including African contexts, caused divisions within religious institutions, families and communities at large. In Christian African contexts, ...
Is Ruth the Ēšet Hayil for real? Womanhood between African proverbs and the threshing floor (Ruth1:1-13)

Masenya, Madipoane (Journal of the Church History Society of South Africa, 2010-07)

Contradictory definitions of what worthy womanhood is have, in many contexts, including African contexts, caused divisions within religious institutions, families and communities at large. In Christian African contexts, ...
The Optimism of the wise in Africa and in Israel : how helpful in the time of HIV/AIDS?

Masenya, Madipoane (Journal of the Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2005)

South African church leaders, theologians and biblical scholars who take comfort in succumbing to the status quo should be compelled by the high incidences of AIDS-related deaths on the African continent, to rethink their ...
Polluting your ground? woman as pollutant in Yehud : a reading from a globalised Africa

Masenya, Madipoane (Cluster, 2001)
Sacrificing female bodies at the altar of male priviledge : a bosadi reading of Judges 19

Masenya, Madipoane (2003)

The present South African landscape is typified, amongst other evils, by violent acts committed on women and children. This violence is entrenched in some church and family contexts, not only by the women-unfriendly Bible ...
Teaching Western-oriented Old Testament studies to African students : an exercise in wisdom or in Folly?

Masenya, Madipoane (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2004)

Since the colonial era, Africa, with South Africa included, has suffered alienation. With strangers imposing their cultures, languages, ideologies et cetera on the continent, Africa became a stranger, ironically on its ...
Trapped between two canons : African- South African Christian women in the HIV/AIDS era

Masenya, Madipoane (2003)

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