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Divining the Woman of Endor

African Culture, Postcolonial Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Biblical Translation. The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

By (author) J. Kabamba Kiboko
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Published: 23rd Feb 2017
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 19mm
Weight: 617g
ISBN-10: 0567673677
ISBN-13: 9780567673671
Barcode No: 9780567673671
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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.

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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 *