Kuloba Wabyanga Robert lives and works in Uganda as a lecturer at Kyambogo University. He is conc... more Kuloba Wabyanga Robert lives and works in Uganda as a lecturer at Kyambogo University. He is concerned with contextual and applied biblical studies, focusing especially on the interface between biblical texts, ideologies and the African context, together with the resultant manifestations and impact of cultural and ideological hybridity. He acquired his PhD from the University of Glasgow in biblical studies. He is presently researching the interface between " the African and the Bible " in response to the changing socioeconomic antecedents in the African modus-vivendi. Abstract: Dini Ya Msambwa (DYM), is a prominent African religious movement, born as a consequence of intellectual and theological dispute between Africans and missionary Christianity over biblical readership. It is a hybrid religious ideology formed from the tissues and organs of the Bible as well as African traditional myths and values, to deal with the questions of racial and cultural identity in the British colonial East African Empire-where Africans rejected the missionary but accepted the Bible.
This study is an Africanized translation and application of the Hebrew Bible Song of Songs 1:5-7 ... more This study is an Africanized translation and application of the Hebrew Bible Song of Songs 1:5-7 in the modern discourse of postcolonial biblical scholarship. How can the Hebrew Song of Songs be incorporated into the black African story? The study is carried out against the backdrop of historical forces of racial politics that were hostile to black people and took the form of slavery, colonialism and (ongoing) racism. The article discusses the underlying effects of the social-economic transformation and mutation RIIWKHH$IULFDQ7KHHFKDUDFWHUVVLQQWKHHWH[WWDUHHFRGL¿HGGLQQWKHHFRQWH[WWRIIEODFNN$IULFDQV
That Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis have been a subject of constant cognitive itch is a truism rat... more That Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis have been a subject of constant cognitive itch is a truism rather than fiction. Aware that the HB is an ideological text, the story of Jordan states notably Sodom and Gomorrah may need further reflections outside sexual frontlines but from the perspectives of political dynamics of the ANE. This paper explores Sodom and Gomorrah as a political and military story that turned theological and ideological. I opine that the fire that razed Sodom and Gomorrah could have been the result of military invasion(s). What is however intriguing is the interest of the biblical writer: at what points would the military or political afterlife of Sodom and Gomorrah meet with the ideological interests of the Bible writer? What interests does the writer have in Sodom and Gomorrah that he finds it necessary not only to conceal the historical reality but also invent ideas and imageries of Sodom and Gomorrah as condemned cities? The paper employs Clines' and Exum's strategies of reading against the grain and defragmenting the stories. In this case, the different stories of Sodom and Gomorrah in chs. 10, 13, 14, 18 and 19 are read critically and in conversation with each other.
Kuloba Wabyanga Robert lives and works in Uganda as a lecturer at Kyambogo University. He is conc... more Kuloba Wabyanga Robert lives and works in Uganda as a lecturer at Kyambogo University. He is concerned with contextual and applied biblical studies, focusing especially on the interface between biblical texts, ideologies and the African context, together with the resultant manifestations and impact of cultural and ideological hybridity. He acquired his PhD from the University of Glasgow in biblical studies. He is presently researching the interface between " the African and the Bible " in response to the changing socioeconomic antecedents in the African modus-vivendi. Abstract: Dini Ya Msambwa (DYM), is a prominent African religious movement, born as a consequence of intellectual and theological dispute between Africans and missionary Christianity over biblical readership. It is a hybrid religious ideology formed from the tissues and organs of the Bible as well as African traditional myths and values, to deal with the questions of racial and cultural identity in the British colonial East African Empire-where Africans rejected the missionary but accepted the Bible.
This study is an Africanized translation and application of the Hebrew Bible Song of Songs 1:5-7 ... more This study is an Africanized translation and application of the Hebrew Bible Song of Songs 1:5-7 in the modern discourse of postcolonial biblical scholarship. How can the Hebrew Song of Songs be incorporated into the black African story? The study is carried out against the backdrop of historical forces of racial politics that were hostile to black people and took the form of slavery, colonialism and (ongoing) racism. The article discusses the underlying effects of the social-economic transformation and mutation RIIWKHH$IULFDQ7KHHFKDUDFWHUVVLQQWKHHWH[WWDUHHFRGL¿HGGLQQWKHHFRQWH[WWRIIEODFNN$IULFDQV
That Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis have been a subject of constant cognitive itch is a truism rat... more That Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis have been a subject of constant cognitive itch is a truism rather than fiction. Aware that the HB is an ideological text, the story of Jordan states notably Sodom and Gomorrah may need further reflections outside sexual frontlines but from the perspectives of political dynamics of the ANE. This paper explores Sodom and Gomorrah as a political and military story that turned theological and ideological. I opine that the fire that razed Sodom and Gomorrah could have been the result of military invasion(s). What is however intriguing is the interest of the biblical writer: at what points would the military or political afterlife of Sodom and Gomorrah meet with the ideological interests of the Bible writer? What interests does the writer have in Sodom and Gomorrah that he finds it necessary not only to conceal the historical reality but also invent ideas and imageries of Sodom and Gomorrah as condemned cities? The paper employs Clines' and Exum's strategies of reading against the grain and defragmenting the stories. In this case, the different stories of Sodom and Gomorrah in chs. 10, 13, 14, 18 and 19 are read critically and in conversation with each other.
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