Biblical studies recent acquisitions

Margaret Barker. Creation : A Biblical Vision for the Environment. London: T&T Clark, 2010.

Barker contributes a Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Barker's starting point is the question of what Jesus himself would have believed about the Creation?

Gerald West, and Musa Dube. The Bible in Africa : Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Although the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship.

Madipoane Masenya Ngwan'a Mphahlele, Kenneth N. Ngwa. Navigating African Biblical Hermeneutics: Trends and Themes from Our Pots and Our Calabashes. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

This collection interrogates and engages the biblical text, colonial and postcolonial subjectivities and cultural assumptions, as well as lived experiences that encompass varying Africana contexts and Diasporas, using historical, literary, cultural and theological perspectives.

Boaheng, Isaac, and Frederick Mawusi Amevenku. Biblical Exegesis in African Context.  Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021.

This book explores how the Church in Africa can affirm its uniqueness in terms of the African identity and experiences, and at the same time, remain faithful to the gospel message, including an explanation of exegesis and hermeneutics.

Humphrey Waweru. The Bible and African Culture : Mapping Transactional Inroads. Eldoret, Kenya: Zapf Chancery Publishers Africa Ltd, 2011.

Waweru reflects on how African theology can survive the self-repetition of mere cultural apologia or contextualization-stereotypes, and mature into a critical theoretical discipline responding to the challenges of the postmodern world-order.

Shawn B. Redford. Missiological Hermeneutics : Biblical Interpretation for the Global Church. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2012.

Bitrus A. Sarma. Hermeneutics of Mission in Matthew : Israel and the Nations in the Interpretative Framework of Matthew’s Gospel. Cumbria, UK: Langham Monographs, 2016.

Sarma proposes that Matthew utilizes the Old Testament as a book of promise of God's salvific plan and that Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise. Sarma explores redemptive events and institutions, geography, prophetic ministry, and intertextual typology.

Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin Marc Smith, Kirsten Oh, Alice Yafeh-Deigh, and Kay Higuera Smith. Reading the Bible Around the World : A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022.

Who we are shapes how we read. Guided by an expert team of cross-cultural scholars, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the influence of their own social location. Grow in your biblical wisdom as you read Scripture alongside the global Christian community.

Bitrus A. Sarma. Drums of Redemption : A New Testament Theology for Africa. Plateau State, Nigeria: HippoBooks, 2023.

Addressing every book of the New Testament, this book is contextually relevant, biblically rooted, and radically hope-filled as it casts a vision for how Christ's redemptive mission can be experienced in every area of life.

Marius Nel. An African Pentecostal Hermeneutics : A Distinctive Contribution to Hermeneutics. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2018.

Nel explores African Pentecostalism's contribution to hermeneutics, and 3 of its defining points: the centrality of the Holy Spirit in reading the Bible, the eschatological lens that Pentecostals use when they read the Bible, and the faith community as normative for the interpretation of the Bible.

Moxnes, Halvor, Zorodzai Dube, Loreen Iminza Maseno-Ouma, and Elia Shabani Mligo. The Bible and Sociological Contours : Some African Perspectives. Festschrift for Professor Halvor Moxnes. New York: Peter Lang Inc., 2018.

These essays explore intersections between the Bible and public spaces, exposing the liberating and oppressing strands of the Bible and asking: how can Africa read the Bible from its various contexts to recover its usefulness on issues of gender, patriarchy and political and economic liberation?

Miguel A. De La Torre. The Colonial Compromise : The Threat of the Gospel to the Indigenous Worldview. Lanham, Maryland: Fortress Academic, 2021.

This book explores the types of compromises Indian people were forced to make to be included in the colonizer's religion and culture. The contributors are in conversation with Tink Tinker, an American Indian scholar known for his work on Native American liberation theology.

Margaret Barker. Creation : A Biblical Vision for the Environment. London: T&T Clark, 2010.

Barker contributes a Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Barker's starting point is the question of what Jesus himself would have believed about the Creation?

Balabanski, Vicky and Norman C. Habel. The Earth Story in the New Testament : Volume 5. The Earth Bible. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002

The Earth Bible project aims to develop ecojustice principles appropriate to an Earth hermeneutic for interpreting the Bible and for promoting justice and healing for Earth.

Habel, Norman C. Readings From the Perspective of Earth. The Earth Bible. Cleveland: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Biblical scholars illustrate how a reading of the biblical text from the perspective of Earth yields fresh insights; these studies retrieve evidence of the living voice and intrinsic value of Earth.

 Daly-Denton, Margaret. John: An Earth Bible Commentary : Supposing Him to Be the Gardener. Earth Bible Commentary. London: T&T Clark, 2017

This volume in the Earth Bible Commentary Series suggests how John's Gospel might motivate and resource a Christian response to the ecological crisis.

Havea, Jione. Jonah: An Earth Bible Commentary. Earth Bible Commentary. London, England: T&T Clark, 2020.

Havea analyses the Book of Jonah through the lens of climate change, using this present situation to reconsider the significance of Jonah for contemporary struggles and contexts.

Lamp, Jeffrey S. Hebrews: An Earth Bible Commentary : A City That Cannot Be Shaken. Earth Bible Commentary. London: T&T Clark, 2020

Havea, Jione. Losing Ground : Reading Ruth in the Pacific. [S.l.]: SCM Press, 2021.

Losing Ground ​​offers a collection of bible studies from the Pacific that interweave the climate pandemic with the interests and wisdoms of Pasifika natives.

Daniel, Seblewengel, Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe, and Angeline Savala. Mother Earth, Mother Africa and Mission. [S.l.]: African Sun Media, 2021

The volume brings together voices of African women theologians and their allies on the urgent topic of ecology, intervening into scholarly discourses on ecofeminism, mission, and Biblical reflection.

Marlow, Hilary, and Mark Harris. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022

This diverse, accessible collection of 30 essays contributes to the development of ecological hermeneutics in response to criticism of the Judeo-Christian tradition for its part in the climate crisis.

Katherine M Hockey and David G Horrell (eds). Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation. London : T&T Clark Open Access, 2018.

These essays address Western domination in the study of the Bible by focusing on historical facets of ethnicity and race in antiquity, the identities of Jews and Christians, and the critique of scholarly ideologies and racial assumptions which have shaped this branch of study.

Boxall, Ian, and Bradley C. Gregory. The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

This Companion offers an up-to-date and accessible guide to the fast-changing discipline of biblical studies. Written by scholars from diverse backgrounds and religious commitments the volume reflects the diversity and globalized character of biblical interpretation.

Gossai, Hemchand. Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament. London, UK: T&T Clark, 2019.

Written by scholars who represent a spectrum of national, indigenous, and diasporic contexts, this volume demonstrates how historical criticism and postcolonial readings may be integrated to obtain an informed explanation of the Hebrew Bible.

Havea, Jione. Scripture and Resistance. Theology in the Age of Empire. Lanham, Maryland: Fortress Academic, 2019.

Resistance against unjust cultures and imperial powers is at the heart of scripture. This collection contains reflections on resistance and the Christian scriptures, including the strategies of and energies in post- and de-colonial criticisms.

Edwards, Michael. Untimely Christianity : Hearing the Bible in a Secular Age. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2022.

Edwards calls for a countercultural Christianity that recovers the Bible's radical otherness and renews our habits of attention to its message. Edwards's work is an eloquent, prophetic effort to recapture the revolutionary power of the Bible to transform.

Parker, Angela N. If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? : Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2021.

Drawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, Parker describes how she learned to deconstruct White Christianity's oppressive use of the Bible. To learn to breathe again, Parker says, we must “let God breathe in us.”

Silvana Rabinovich. Biblical Figures in Israel’s Colonial Political Theology. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

This book reveals and counteracts the misuse of biblical texts and figures in political theology, in an attempt to decolonialize the reading of the Old Testament. In the framework of Critical Theory, the book questions readings that inform the State of Israel's military apparatus.

Stiebert, Johanna and Musa W. Dube. The Bible, Centres and Margins : Dialogues Between Postcolonial African and British Biblical Scholars. London: T&T Clark, 2018.

Dube and Stiebert collect expressions from biblical scholars in the UK and southern African states. Contributions range from the injustices of colonialism to postcolonial critical readings of texts, placing UK and African scholarship in dialogue.