CURRICULUM VITAE
Gerald Oakley West
2017
Personal Details
Date of birth
10 April 1956
Country of birth
Zimbabwe
Nationality
South African
Educational qualifications
Secondary
1973: Kimberley Boy's High School, Kimberley, South Africa.
Cape Senior Certificate
1974: Waiarapa College, Masterton, New Zealand.
Higher School Certificate
Tertiary
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
1975-77: BA
1978-78: BA(Hon)
1979-79: Higher Diploma in Education
Theological College of South Africa, Johannesburg, South
Africa.
1979 and 82: Diploma of the College
Sheffield University, Sheffield, England.
1985-87: MA (with Distinction)
Thesis: The Succession Narrative as History: A Critical Discussion of the Debate in the Light
of Recent Work in the Philosophy of History.
1987-90: PhD (Biblical Studies)
Thesis: Biblical Interpretation in Theologies of Liberation: Modes of Reading the Bible in the
South African Context of Liberation.
Employment
1978: Graduate Assistant in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Rhodes
University, South Africa.
1980-83: Minister in the Assembly of God Church.
1981-83: Junior-Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of Linguistics and English Language,
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Rhodes University.
1983-85: Junior-Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Rhodes
University.
1985/86: Graduate-Tutor in the Department of Biblical Studies, Sheffield University,
England.
1988: Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of General Linguistics and Communication,
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Lecturer (part-time) in The Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa, Imbali,
Pietermaritzburg.
1989: Lecturer (part-time) in The Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa.
Lecturer (part-time) in the School of Theology, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
Course-Writer for the Theological Education by Extension College (Southern Africa).
Researcher in the Institute for the Study of the Bible, School of Theology, University of
Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
1990: Researcher in the Institute for the Study of the Bible, School of Theology, University of
Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
1991: Lecturer in the School of Theology, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
Researcher in the Institute for the Study of the Bible, School of Theology, University of
Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
1992: Senior-Lecturer in the School of Theology, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
1994: Senior-Lecturer in the School of Theology, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
Director of the Institute for the Study of the Bible, School of Theology, University of Natal,
Pietermaritzburg.
1996: Associate Professor in the School of Theology, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
Director of the Institute for the Study of the Bible, School of Theology, University of Natal,
Pietermaritzburg.
1999: Professor in the School of Theology, University of Natal.
Director of the Institute for the Study of the Bible & Worker Ministry Project, School of
Theology, University of Natal.
2002: Head of School of Theology, University of Natal.
Director of the Institute for the Study of the Bible & Worker Ministry Project, School of
Theology, University of Natal.
2005: Senior Professor in the School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZuluNatal.
Director of the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research (new designation
of Institute for the Study of the Bible & Worker Ministry Project), School of Religion and
Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
2012: Senior Professor in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics, University of
KwaZulu-Natal.
Researcher in the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research, School of
Religion, Philosophy, and Classics.
Academic Leader: Community Engagement, School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics.
2013. Senior Professor in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics, University of
KwaZulu-Natal.
Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Researcher in the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research, School of
Religion, Philosophy, and Classics.
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Academic Leader: Community Engagement, School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics.
2016. Senior Professor in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics, University of
KwaZulu-Natal.
Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Director of the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research, School of
Religion, Philosophy, and Classics.
Academic Leader: Community Engagement, School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics.
Awards
1985/86: Rotary International Foundation Scholarship.
1986/87: British Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals Overseas Research Student
Award.
1987/88: British Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals Overseas Research Student
Award.
1994: University of Natal Special Research Fund Award.
1995: Vice Chancellor's Award, University of Natal.
2005: Bray Lectureship, USPG and SPCK, United Kingdom.
2012: DVC’s Award for Research Excellence, College of Humanities, University of
KwaZulu-Natal.
2013: Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal
2018: De Carle Distinguished Lectureship, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Visiting Lectureships
1993: Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA, October.
1993: New York Theological Seminary, New York, USA, November.
1993: Howard University, Washington DC, USA, December.
1995: Alexander Robertson Lectureship, Department of Biblical Studies, University of
Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, April-July.
2000: Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, USA, April-December.
2000: School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK, July-August.
2002: People’s Seminary, Burlington, USA, November.
2003: Gurukul Theological College and Research Institute, Chennai, India, September.
2005: Gurukul Theological College and Research Institute, Chennai, India, January.
2005: Bishop’s College, Kolkata, India, January.
2005: Westcott House, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, March.
2005: Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, November.
2006: Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, USA, November.
2009: School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK, July.
2009: Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, USA, August-December.
2009: Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, USA, August-December.
2009: University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, August-December.
2012: School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK, July.
2014: Nida School of Translation Studies, Misano Adriatico, Italy, May/June.
2016. Tainan Theological College and Seminary, Tainan, Taiwan, March.
2016: Nida School of Translation Studies, Misano Adriatico, Italy, May/June.
2018: De Carle Distinguished Lectureship, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Guest Lecturer
1991: Loyola College, Baltimore, USA, November.
1994: University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, August.
1994: Diaconia College Centre, Oslo, Norway, August.
1994: School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway, August.
1995: University of Oslo, Olso, Norway, January.
1995: Queens College, Oxford University, England, June.
1995: Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, USA, November/December.
1997: Hanil University and Theological College, Chonbuk, Korea, June/July.
1997: United Theological College, North Parramatta, Australia, December.
2000: People’s Seminary, Burlington, USA, July.
2000: St Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, Canada, October.
2000: Loyola College, Baltimore, USA, November.
2002: University of Cape Coast, Ghana, February.
2002: Emmanuel College, Toronto, November.
2003: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, September.
2004: Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria, July.
2005: Ripon College, Oxford University, Cuddesdon, England, March.
2005: United College of the Ascension, Birmingham University, England, March.
2005: Sheffield University, Sheffield, England, March.
2005: The Minister Lectures, York, England, March.
2006: Escola Superior de Teologia, São Leopoldo, Brasil, February.
2007: American Baptist Seminary of the West, San Francisco, USA, November.
2008: Lambeth Conference, Canterbury, England, July/August.
2009: Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, USA, November.
2010: Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, USA, November.
2011: Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, USA, November.
2012: Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada,
November.
2012: People’s Seminary, Burlington, USA, December.
2012: Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, USA, December.
2013: Drew Theological School, Drew University, New Jersey, USA, April.
2013: Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA, April.
2013: Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway, October.
2014: Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA, April.
2014: Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, USA, November.
2015: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, January.
2015: Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, USA, April.
2016: Yu-Shan Theological College and Seminary, Hualien, Taiwan, March.
2017: Holy Cross College, Worcester, USA, November.
Academic Conference Papers
(* Designates an International Conference)
1.* Two Readings of the Cain and Abel Story in the South African Context of Liberation,
Paper read at the November 1989 Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Los Angeles,
USA.
2. Hearing Job's Wife: Towards a Feminist Reading of Job, Paper read at the September 1990
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Meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
3. The Challenge of Ideologiekritik: The Biblical Text as a Site of Struggle, Paper read at the
September 1990 Meeting of the HSRC Conference on The Relevance of Theology in the
1990s, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
4. The Relationship between Different Modes of Reading the Bible and the Ordinary Reader,
Paper read at the Workshop on Contextual Hermeneutics, Centre for Contextual
Hermeneutics, September 1991, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
5.* South African Perspectives on Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family, by
Cain Hope Felder, Paper read at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting, November 1991, Kansas City, USA.
6.* (With J.A. Draper) The Bible and Social Transformation in South Africa: A
Work-in-Progress Report on the Institute for the Study of the Bible, Paper read at the Society
of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 1991, Kansas City, USA.
7.* The Presence of Power in the Joseph Story, Paper read at the Society of Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting, November 1991, Kansas City, USA.
8. Recovering the Suppressed Past and Reconstructing the Future: Historical Consciousness
in Biblical and Theological Liberation Hermeneutics, Paper read at the HSRC Centre for
Research Methodology Science and Vision Conference, January 1992, Pretoria, South Africa.
9. Engagement, Critical Distance, and Contextualisation: Teaching/Learning Biblical Studies
in the South African Context, Paper read at the Workshop on Contextual Hermeneutics,
Centre for Contextual Hermeneutics, May 1992, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
10. (With J.R. Cochrane) War, Remembrance, and Reconstruction, Paper read at the
Theological Society of Southern Africa Annual Meeting, August 1992, Pretoria, South
Africa.
11. Metaphorical and Societal Views of Women in Hosea 1 and 3, Paper read at the Old
Testament Society of South Africa Congress, September 1992, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
12.* Engagement, Criticality, and Contextualization: Core Concepts in the Teaching/Learning
of Biblical Studies in a South African Context, Paper read at the William Jewel College
Conference on Critical Thinking in the Teaching of Biblical Studies, San Francisco,
November 1992, USA.
13. No Integrity Without Contextuality: the Presence of Particularity in Biblical Hermeneutics
and Pedagogy, Paper read at the Workshop on Contextual Hermeneutics, Centre for
Contextual Hermeneutics, May 1993, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
14. Reading an African Biblical Story (Genesis 37-50) in Africa: an African Critical Reading
of the Joseph Story, Paper read at the Old Testament Society of South Africa Congress,
September 1993, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
15.* Reading the Bible with Poor and Oppressed Communities in South Africa: a Case Study,
Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 1993, Washington
DC, USA.
16.* African Critical Resources for Bible Reading: the Joseph Story in South Africa, Paper
read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 1993, Washington DC,
USA.
17. Constructing Critical and Contextual Readings with Ordinary Readers: Mark 5:21-6:1,
Paper read at the New Testament Society of South Africa Congress, March 1994.
18. The Effect and Power of Discourse: a Case Study of a Metaphor in Hosea, Paper read at
the Workshop on Contextual Hermeneutics, Centre for Contextual Hermeneutics, May 1994,
Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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19.* (With B. Khumalo and M. Speckman) Reading the Bible in Africa: A Case Study of the
Institute for the Study of the Bible, Paper read at Interpreting the Bible in African Contexts
Conference, University of Glasgow, August 1994, Glasgow, Scotland.
20.* Ideology, Accountability, and the Academy: Biblical Studies as a Site of Struggle, Paper
read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 1994, Chicago, USA.
21.* (With B. Khumalo) Doing Theology in a Changing and Pluriform World: New
Challenges in Contextual Theological Method, Paper read at the Conference Hvordan Blir
Var Teologi Til?, Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations,
January 1995, Oslo, Norway.
22.* And the Dumb Shall Speak: Articulating Subjugated Readings of the Bible in
Marginalized Communities, Paper read at the Colloquium on the Use of the Bible in Ethics,
April 1995, Sheffield, England.
23. The Future of Religion in the 21st Century: A South African Perspective, Paper read at
the Research Institute for Theology and Religion Conference on New Modes of Thinking of
the Eve of a New Century, September 1995, Pretoria, South Africa.
24. J, E, D, P and the RDP: Biblical Sources for Transition and Transformation, Paper read at
the Workshop on Contextual Hermeneutics, Centre for Contextual Hermeneutics, October
1995, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
25.* Reading with Rizpah: Reading 2 Samuel 21:1-14 with Marginalized Communities in
South Africa, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November
1995, Philadelphia, USA.
26.* Review of Ethics of Interpretation: A Reevaluation, by Daniel Patte, Paper read at the
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 1995, Philadelphia, USA.
27. Reading on the Boundaries: Reading 2 Samuel 21:1-14 with Rizpah, Paper read at the
Workshop on Contextual Hermeneutics, Centre for Contextual Hermeneutics, May 1996,
Stellenbosch, South Africa.
28. Mapping the Place of Post-Colonial Criticism in Old Testament Biblical Studies in South
Africa, Paper read at the Old Testament Society of South Africa Congress, September 1996,
Stellenbosch, South Africa.
29.* Priorities for Restitution and Reconciliation in South Africa, Paper read at the
International Conference on Reconciliation and Restitution: An Old Testament Perspective,
September 1996, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
30.* The Place of Post-Colonial Biblical Criticism in a Post-Apartheid, Post-Liberation and
Post-Modern South Africa, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting,
November 1996, New Orleans, USA.
31.* Re-Reading the Bible with African Resources: Interpretative Strategies for
Reconstruction in a Postcolonial Context, Paper read at the All Africa Conference of
Churches Consultation on “The Role of the Churches in the Reconstruction of Africa”, April
1997, Nairobi, Kenya.
32. Reading Other-wise: Re-envisaging the Reading Practices and Place of the Socially
Engaged Biblical Scholar, Paper read at the Workshop on Contextual Hermeneutics, Centre
for Contextual Hermeneutics, June 1997, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
33.* Reading Strategies in the South African Context: Contextual Bible Study as Bible
Pedagogy, Paper read at the International Workshop on Bible Pedagogy, Hanil University,
June/July 1997, Chonbuk, Korea.
34.* Remembering the Bible in a Postcolonial Context: The Bible, Ethnicity, and Ordinary
African Readers, Paper read at the Ethnicity and the Bible Conference and Consultations,
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December 1997, Sydney, Australia.
35.* Neglected Dimensions of Biblical Interpretation in the African Context: Equipping the
Church to Respond to the Cries of the Poor, Paper read at the Ecumenical Symposium of
Eastern Africa Theologians, March 1998, Sagana, Kenya.
36.* Delineating the Dimensions of ‘Reading with’: Extending the Boundaries of Biblical
Studies Discourse, Paper read at the Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
(SNTS), August 1998, Copenhagen, Denmark.
36. The Citizenship of Marginal/Subjugated Voices, Paper read at the Multi-Event 1999
Academic Workshop, September 1999, Cape Town, South Africa.
37.* Reading from This Place (with These People and for This Purpose): Review Panel
Discussion on Reading from this Place volumes, Paper read at the Society of Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting, November 1998, Orlando, USA.
38.* Being Partially Constituted by Work with Others: Biblical Scholars Becoming Different,
Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 1998, Orlando,
USA.
39. * The Bible and Biblical Interpretation in South African Black Theology, Paper read at
the EFSA and University of Stellenbosch Department of Old and New Testament
International Workshop on Old and New Testament Studies in Africa: Learning from the Past
and Planning for the Future, May 1999, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
40. * Mapping Biblical Interpretation in Africa, Paper read at the Meeting of the Studiorum
Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) Post Conference, August 1999, Pretoria, South Africa.
41. * Disguising Defiance in Ritualisms of Subordination: Literary Resources for Recovering
Resistance Discourse within the Dominant Discourses of the Bible, Paper read at the Society
of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 1999, Boston, USA.
42. * Tribes in Africa: The Impact of Norman Gottwald’s Tribes of Yahweh on African
Biblical Interpretation (with Particular Reference to Inculturation and Liberation Paradigms),
Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 1999, Boston,
USA.
43. * Negotiating with 'the White Man's Book': Early Foundations for Liberation
Hermeneutics in (South) Africa, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual
Meeting, November 2000, Nashville, USA.
44. * Beyond Western Forms: Constructing an African Commentary on the Bible, Paper read
at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2000, Nashville, USA.
45. * Intercultural Readings of the Bible in South Africa, Paper read at the Through the Eyes
of Another: Intercultural Readings of the Bible Research Conference, March 2001, Utrecht,
Holland.
46. * Biblical Hermeneutics and the Laity: Learning from Ordinary African Interpreters of the
Bible, Paper read at the Ecumenical Institute, Bossey, May 2001, Switzerland.
47. * Redirecting the direction of travel: African biblical interpretation post-2001 (and other
‘post-s’), Paper read at the 2001: A Bible Odyssey Conference, June/July 2001, Melbourne,
Australia.
48. Reading Abused Female Bodies in the Bible: Interpretative Strategies for Recognising
and Recovering the Stories of Women Inscribed by Violence but Circumscribed by
Patriarchal Text (2 Kings 5), Paper read at the Old Testament Society of South Africa:
Suffering Bodies in Religious Discourses, September 2001, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
49. Early Indications of the Bible’s Place in Public Morality: The BaTlhaping, William
Burchell and the Bible, Paper read at the Theological Society of Southern Africa: Public
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Morality in the South African Context, June 2002, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
50. Indigenous Exegesis: Exploring the Interface Between Missionary Methods and the
Rhetorical Rhythms of Africa; Locating Local Reading Resources in the Academy, Paper
read at the Annual Meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa, Stellenbosch,
South Africa.
51. * “I Would Rather Come to Bible Study than Go to Church”: Reading the Bible
‘Positively’ in South Africa, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting,
November 2002, Toronto, Canada.
52. * Tear Down the Walls: Community-based Learning in An African Context, Paper read at
the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2002, Toronto, Canada.
53. The Historicity of Myth and the Myth of Historicity: Locating the Ordinary ‘Reader’ in
the Debate, Paper read at the New Testament Society of South Africa Congress, April 2003,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
54. * The Open and Closed Bible: the Bible in African Theologies, Paper read at the
Conference on African Christian Theologies in Transformation: Respice et Prospice, June
2003, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
55. Taming Texts of Terror: Reading (with or against) the Gender Grain of Biblical Texts,
Paper read at the Theological Society of Southern Africa: Gender and Theology in Africa,
June 2003, Pretoria, South Africa.
56. Reading Shembe ‘Re-membering’ the Bible: Isaiah Shembe’s Instructions on Adultery,
Paper read at the New Testament Society of South Africa Congress, April 2004, Pretoria,
South Africa.
57. * Decolonizing (South) African Biblical Scholarship, Paper read at the Nigerian
Association for Biblical Studies, July 2004, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria.
58. * Decolonizing (South) African Biblical Scholarship: the Bible in (South) African History
and Culture, Paper read at the Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS),
August 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
59. The Appropriation of Psalms in the Teachings of Isaiah Shembe, Paper read at the Annual
Meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa, September 2004, Johannesburg, South
Africa.
60. * The Limits of Orality and Literacy in ‘Talking’ Theologically about HIV and AIDS in
(South) Africa, Paper read at the Fourth International Inter-Disciplinary Colloquium on
Orality, Literacy and Diversity, October 2004, Mtunzini, South Africa.
61. * (Ac)claiming the (Extra)ordinary African ‘Reader’ of the Bible, Paper read at the
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2004, San Antonio, USA.
62. * (With T. Sitoto) Other Ways of Reading the Qur’an and the Bible in Africa: Isaiah
Shembe and Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual
Meeting, November 2004, San Antonio, USA.
63. (With B. Zengele) The Medicine of God’s Word: What People Living with HIV and
AIDS Want From the Bible, Paper read at the Theological Society of Southern Africa:
Healing, Health and Regeneration, June 2005, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
64. * Male and Female Bodies in the Teaching of Isaiah Shembe and its Possible Implications
for HIV/AIDS, Paper read at the Broken Bodies and Healing Communities: Faith-Based
Contextual Responses to HIV/AIDS Conference, October 2005, Botha’s Hill, South Africa.
65. * Hearing the (Theological) Voice of the Other in the City Mission: A South African
Perspective, Paper read at the City Mission and Otherness Conference, November 2005, Oslo,
Norway.
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66.* Interrogating the Comparative Paradigm in African Biblical Scholarship, Paper read at
the conference on Exegesis and Actualisation in Africa and Europe: A Dialogue,
January/February 2006, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
67. The Biblical Construction of the Female Body in Ibandla lamaNazaretha: Isaiah Shembe
and Jephthah’s Daughter, Paper read at the Old Testament Society of South Africa, Wisdom
and Gender: Constructing Each Other Wisely in Reading the Old Testament, September
2006, Pretoria, South Africa.
68. * Hearing Scripture in African Contexts, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature
Annual Meeting, November 2006, Washington, DC, USA.
69. * African Biblical Interpretation as a Product of African Socio-Historical Realities, Paper
read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2006, Washington, DC,
USA.
70. * Contending with the Bible: Biblical Interpretation as a Site of Struggle, Paper read at
the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2006, Washington, DC, USA.
71. * The Poetry of Job as a Resource for the Articulation of Embodied Lament in the
Context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature
Annual Meeting, November 2006, Washington, DC, USA.
72. * Thabo Mbeki’s Bible: Public Realm Appropriations and Contestations, Paper read at the
Religion and Spirituality in a Postcolonial Context Colloquium, January 2007,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
73. A Reluctant Presence: The Use of Postcolonial Discourse in African Women’s Biblical
Hermeneutics, Paper read at the Congress of the New Testament Society of South Africa,
April 2007, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
74. * Interpreting ‘The Exile’ in African Biblical Scholarship: An Ideo-theological Dilemma
in Postcolonial South Africa, Plenary paper read at the Combined Congress of the Old
Testament Society of South Africa and the OTW (Netherlands and Belgium), August 2007,
Pretoria, South Africa.
75. “Why Are You So Low, Son of the King...?” Patriarchy, Power and the Construction of
Biblical Masculinities, Plenary paper read at the 4th Pan African Conference of the Circle of
Concerned African Women Theologians: The Girl Child, Women, Religion and HIV and
AIDS in Africa, September 2007, Yaoundé, Cameroun.
76. From Mmahutu to Today: A Case Study, Paper read at the Bible Society of South Africa’s
Setswana Bible 150 Years Theological Conference: Is the Bible Still Relevant for the
Southern Africa Society?, October 2007, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
77. * Mbeki’s Bible: The Bible in the South African Public Realm After Liberation, Paper
read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2007, San Diego, USA.
78. * Anglicanism and the Interpretation of Scripture, Paper read at the American Academy
of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2007, San Diego, USA.
79. * An African Response to Ethnologies of Scriptural Readings among Communities of
Color in the United States, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting,
November 2007, San Diego, USA.
80. * In Dialogue with Dalit Biblical Hermeneutics: Identifying Resonances and Recognising
Difference, Paper read at the conference on Dalit Theology in the 21st Century: Discordant
Voices, Discerning Pathways ..., January 2008, Kolkata, India.
81. * From a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) for the Economy to the
RDP of the Soul: Public Realm Biblical Appropriation in Postcolonial South Africa, Paper
read at the Conference on Bible & Justice, May 2008, Sheffield, England.
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82. Separating Economy and Morality in Post-liberation South Africa: Thabo Mbeki’s RDP
of the Soul, Paper read at the Religion and Spirituality Workshop, August 2008,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
83. * Indigenous Biblical Hermeneutics: Voicing Continuity and Distinctiveness, Plenary
paper read at the First Nations Conference, September 2008, Neah Bay, USA.
84. * Sacred texts – Particularly the Bible – and HIV and AIDS: Charting the Territory, Paper
read at the Collaborative in HIV and AIDS in Religion and Theology (Chart) Chartography
Research Workshop, October 2008, Durban, South Africa.
85. * “Leadership and Land”: A Very Contextual Interpretation of Genesis 37-50 in
KwaZulu-Natal South Africa, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual
Meeting, November 2008, Boston, USA.
86. Jesus (Christ), Jacob (Zuma), and the New Jerusalem: The ANC’s Deployment of
Religion in Nation Building, Paper read at Conference on Power Sharing and African
Democracy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, March 2009, Pretoria, South Africa.
87. * Human Flourishing and Social Transformation: Bringing Embodied Theology into the
Public Realm, Plenary paper read at conference on Human Flourishing: Exploring Protestant
Goods in Changing Contexts, June 2009, Kampen, The Netherlands.
88. Interpreting Sacred Texts – Particularly the Bible and the Qur’an – in the Context of HIV
and AIDS in Africa, Plenary paper read at Joint Conference of Academic Societies in the
Fields of Religion and Theology, June 2009, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
89. * Africans Reading the Africa Bible Commentary and Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A
Response, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2009,
New Orleans, USA.
90. * Betraying the Logic of Social Location: Beyond Individual Self-identification to
Collaboration, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November
2009, New Orleans, USA.
91. * (With Sithembiso Zwane) “Why Are You Sitting There?” Reading Matthew 20:1-16 in
the Context of Casual Workers in Pietermaritzburg South Africa, Paper read at the Society of
Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2009, New Orleans, USA.
92. * The Difference Epistemological Point of View Makes in Social Analysis and Biblical
Interpretation: Sex Workers Reading the Bible, Paper read at the Society of Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting, November 2009, New Orleans, USA.
93. * Reflections on The Africana Bible: Reading Scripture across Africa and the African
Diaspora, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 2009,
New Orleans, USA.
94. * Jesus, Jacob Zuma, and the New Jerusalem: Religion in the Public Realm between
Polokwane and the Presidency, Plenary paper read at In the Presence of Faith: An
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Southern African Studies of Religion, 24-26 February 2010,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
95. Political Economy and Its Effects in Mark 7:1-13 and Mark 12:38-44, Paper read at the
Congress of the New Testament Society of South Africa, 19-22 April 2010, Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa.
96. * The Return of the Bible to the Public Realm in South Africa: Reading the Religiopolitical Signs of Our African Times, Paper read at the Bible and Politics in Africa (and the
West) International Symposium, 29 July-1 August 2010, Bad Staffelstein, Germany.
97. The Detail Does Matter: Ethical Dilemmas and Identities between Biblical Text and
African Context, Plenary paper read at Old Testament Society of South Africa Annual
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Congress, 15-17 September 2010, Vaal Triangle, South Africa.
98. Biblical Reflections on ‘Affluenza’: Personal and Systemic Dimensions, Plenary paper
read at the Lentekonferensie, Lente in Bediening en Teologie, 5-7 October 2010, Pretoria,
South Africa.
99. * Senzeni na? From Lament to Restoration in Job 42:10-17 and in the Context of HIV and
AIDS, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 20-23 November
2010, New Orleans, USA.
100. * Popular Reading: Reception in Africa, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature
Annual Meeting, 20-23 November 2010, New Orleans, USA.
101. * Do Two Walk Together? Walking with the Other through Contextual Bible Study,
Plenary paper read at the Trinity Institute’s “Reading Scripture through Other Eyes”
Conference, 19-21 January 2011, New York City, USA.
102. Tracing the ‘Kairos’ Trajectory from South Africa (1985) to Palestine (2009):
Discerning Continuities and Differences, Plenary paper read at the Theological Society of
South Africa Annual Meeting, 22-24 June 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa.
103. African Culture as Praeparatio Evangelica: The Old Testament as Preparation of the
African Postcolonial, Paper read at the Old Testament Society of South Africa Conference, 79 September 2011, Cape Town, South Africa.
104. * What Is Structural Exegesis, and What Difference Does It Make? Reflections from
South Africa, 1976-1993, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 1922 November 2011, San Francisco, USA.
105. * Apprehending and Being Apprehended by Biblical Narrative: Redeploying Jephthah’s
Daughter Against British and Afrikaner Colonialism and Amakholwa Christianity, Paper read
at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 19-22 November 2011, San Francisco,
USA.
106. * Appropriations of Jephthah’s Daughter among the Amanazaretha: from the Early
1900s to Today, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 19-22
November 2011, San Francisco, USA.
107. * Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Towards a Post-mission Praxis (Responding to
Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Salvation, Society and Subversion, by Marion Grau,
2011), Paper read at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 19-22 November
2011, San Francisco, USA.
108. Exegesis Seeking Appropriation; Appropriation Seeking Exegesis: Re-reading 2 Samuel
13:1-22 in Search of Redemptive Masculinities, Paper read at the Joint Conference of
Southern African Academic Societies “Knowing, Believing, Living in Africa: Perspectives
from Religion, Theology and Science”, 18-22 June 2012, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
109. * HIV’s Re-reading of Sacred Texts: Discerning Contending Trajectories (Responding
to Religion and HIV and AIDS: Charting the Terrain, Edited by Beverley Haddad, 2011),
Paper read at the African Association for the Study of Religion, American Academy of
Religion Annual Meeting, 16-20 November 2012, Chicago, USA.
110. * What Kind of Man Does Tamar Want? In Search of Redemptive African
Masculinities, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 16-20
November 2012, Chicago, USA.
111. * See, Judge, Act as a Resource for Reading with the Poor (a Response), Paper read at
the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 16-20 November 2012, Chicago, USA.
112. * The Biblical Text as a Heterotopic Intercultural Site: Reading 2 Samuel 13:1-22 in the
Search for Redemptive Masculinities, Paper read the International Conference on the Bible
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and Transformation, 18-20 February 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
113. * State Construction of the Role of Religion in the Public Sphere and the Return of
People’s Theology, Paper read at the Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource
(REDO) Conference, 8-12 April 2013, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
114. *Contending for Dignity in the Bible and the South African Public Realm, Paper read at
the Restorative Readings: The Old Testament, Ethics and Human Dignity Conference, 4-5
September 2013, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
115. “... and Many Cattle” (Jonah 4:11): Religious Configurations of Land and Cattle in the
Cape (1652-1662), Paper read at the Old Testament Society of South Africa Conference, 1113 September 2013, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
116. * Contending for Dignity in the Bible and the South African Public Realm, Paper read at
the PhD Seminar, Being Human: Community Contextual Theological Approaches to
Community from Pietermaritzburg, New York and Oslo, 1-3 October 2013, Oslo, Norway.
117. * People’s Theology, Prophetic Theology, and Public Theology in Post-liberation South
Africa, Paper read at the PhD Seminar, Being Human: Community Contextual Theological
Approaches to Community from Pietermaritzburg, New York and Oslo, 1-3 October 2013,
Oslo, Norway.
118. * Van Riebeeck’s Bible: Imperial and Indigenous Appropriations, 1652-1662, Paper read
at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 23-26 November 2013, Baltimore, USA.
119. * Juxtaposing “Many Cattle”: Biblical Narrative, Narrative of Empire, Neo-Indignenous
Narrative, Paper read at the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics Summerschool,
Empire Religions, Theologies, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 5-7 March 2014,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
120. * Reading the Bible between Alterity and Appropriation: Translation for Liberation,
Paper read at the Nida School of Translation Studies, 26 May-6 June, 2014, Misano
Adriatico, Italy.
121. * From Genesis to Jonah: Biblical Resources for Environmental Justice, Paper read at
the African Association for the Study of Religion Conference (AASR), 30 July-3 August
2014, Cape Town, South Africa.
122. * Towards an African Liberationist Queer Theological Pedagogy, Paper read at the
Sexuality Consultation, 28-31 August, 2014, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
123. Speaking of God ‘What Is Right’: Twenty Years of Reading Job among People Living
with HIV, Paper read at the Old Testament Society of South Africa Conference, “Studying
the Old Testament in South Africa from 1994 to 2014 and beyond”, 3-5 September,
Johannesburg, 2014, South Africa.
124. “Senzeni Na?” Speaking of God “What Is Right” in the Context of HIV Stigmatisation,
Paper read at the International PhD Seminar: “Becoming Human: Identity and Belonging
towards a People’s Theology”, 5-8 October, 2014, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
125. * Between Text and Trauma: Reading the Epilogue of Job with People Living with HIV,
Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 22-25 November 2014, San
Diego, USA.
126. * ‘Love’ in a Time of Gender Violence, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature
Annual Meeting, 22-25 November 2014, San Diego, USA.
127. Reading the Bible with the Marginalised: The Value/s of Contextual Bible Reading,
Paper read at the Biblica Institute’s Scholars’ Forum, 24-25 March 2015, Stellenbosch, South
Africa.
128. (With B. Haddad) Boaz as Sugar Daddy: Re-Reading Ruth in the Context of HIV, Paper
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read at the Theological Society of South Africa Annual Meeting, Faith and Family: Reflecting
on God, Gender and Generations, 17-19 June 2015, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
129. * (With B. Haddad) Boaz as Sugar Daddy: Re-Reading Ruth in the Context of HIV,
Paper read at Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, 20-24 July 2015, Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
130. * Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-apartheid
South Africa, Paper read at the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the
History of Religions (IAHR), 23-29 August, 2015, Erfurt, Germany.
131. * The Lord’s Prayer as the Economic Manifesto of Jesus, Paper read at The Lutheran
World Federation Global Perspectives on the Reformation: Interaction between Theology,
Politics and Economics, 28 October-1 November 2015, Windhoek, Namibia.
132. The Contribution of Isaiah Shembe to African Biblical Theology, Inaugural Isaiah
Shembe Public Lecture, 29 July 2015, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
133. * Co-opting Another’s Story: Isaiah and the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation
Commission), Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 21-24
November 2015, Atlanta, USA.
134. * Response to Carolyn J. Sharp, Translating Alterity: Conflict, Undecidability, and
Complicity, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 21-24 November
2015, Atlanta, USA.
135. * Panel Presentation on Intersemiotic Translation: A New Media Approach, Paper read
at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 21-24 November 2015, Atlanta, USA.
136. * Contextual Bible Study: Method, HIV, Gender and Masculinity, Economics, Papers
read as the Sinlau Lecture Series, Tainan Theological College and Seminary, 28-29 March
2016, Tainan, Taiwan.
137. * On the Impossibility Necessity of Translation, On the Necessity of Re-Translation, On
the Necessity of Embodied Re-Translation, Papers read Nida School of Translation Studies,
30 May-3 June 2016, Misano Adriatico, Italy.
138. * Biblical Interpretation Doing Justice: From ‘People’s Theology’ to ‘Prophetic
Theology’, Paper read at the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, 3-7 July
2016, Seoul, South Korea.
139. * Redaction Criticism as a Resource for the Bible as ‘a Site of Struggle', Paper read at
International Organisation for the Study of the Old Testament, 5-9 September 2016,
Stellenbosch, South Africa.
140. * Religion as a Site of Struggle: Lessons from the Bible as a Site of Struggle in South
Africa, Paper read at the Religion, Governance, Humanitarianism in Africa: The 2nd Annual
Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa Blog Conference, 19-20 October,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
141. * Contextual Theology, Sexuality, and the Church: South African Reflections, Papers
read at the South South East Asian Consultation on Human Sexuality and Gender Identities,
7-9 February, Bangalore, India.
142. * Scripture as a Site of Struggle: Discerning Resistance and Domination Within Biblical
Texts, Paper read at Discernment and Radical Engagement (DARE) Global Forum, 28 May
-2 June, 2017, Bangkok, Thailand.
143. * In/decent, Im/proper, and In/appropriate Interpretation: Intersecting Con/texts, Paper
read at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 17-21 November 2017, Boston,
USA.
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Professional Conference/Workshop
[Extensive community-based work is done through the Ujamaa Centre; these are some
examples of Conferences/Workshops related to Research]
1. Consultative Workshops in South Africa, 1989/90.
2. Consultative Workshops in Brazil, April, 1990, Rio de Janeiro, São Leopoldo, São Paulo,
Recife, Brazil.
3. *Ecumenical Documentation and Information Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa/All
Africa Conference of Churches Workshop on Right Wing Christian Groups, July/August
1990, Harare, Zimbabwe.
4. Institute for the Study of the Bible Workshop, November 1990, Pietermaritzburg, South
Africa.
5. Theology Exchange Programme National Workshop, September 1991, Kimberley, South
Africa.
6.* Ecumenical Documentation and Information Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa/All
Africa Conference of Churches Workshop on Recent Developments in Right Wing Religion
in Eastern and Southern Africa, October 1991, Windhoek, Namibia.
7. * Institute for the Study of the Bible All-Africa Workshop, November 1992,
Pietermaritzburg.
8. Matatiele Rural Community Workshop, April 1993, Matatiele.
9. Revival Workshop with the Anglican Church in the Eastern Province, June 1993, Maluti.
10. Umtata Women's Group Workshop on Liberating Ways of Reading the Bible, August
1993, Umtata.
11. CPSA Diocesan Youth Chaplains Training on Taking the Bible to the Young People,
April 1994, Pietermaritzburg.
12. * Institute for the Study of the Bible All-Africa Workshop, November 1994,
Pietermaritzburg.
13.* The Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology Workshop, January 1995, Oslo, Norway.
14.* Norwegian Church Aid Workshop, January 1995, Oslo, Norway.
15.* Council for World Mission Bicentenary Workshop, July 1995, London, England.
16. College of the Transfiguration Workshop on Methods of Biblical Interpretation, July
1996, Grahamstown.
17. International Workshop on Bible Pedagogy, June/July 1997, Hanil University, Chonbuk,
Korea.
18. Institute for Contextual Theology Workshop on “Ethical Challenges for Theologies in
South Africa: Directions for Discourse and Praxis for the New Century Beyond Millenialist
Theologies”, January 2000, Johannesburg.
19. South African Council of Churches Consultation on “Moral Renewal”, March 2000,
Johannesburg.
20. Institute for the Study of the Bible & Worker Ministry “Bible Week”, September 2001.
21. * Consultation on the Future of Lay Training in the Church, February 2002, Ramseyer
Training Centre, Abetifi-Kwahu, Ghana.
22. * International Network for Advanced Theological Education consultation on
“Theological Responses to Illnesses, Stigma and Discrimination: Forging Contextual
Theologies in an Era of HIV/AIDS”, January 2003, Pietermaritzburg.
23. Training of Theological Educators in the HIV/AIDS Era, Lutheran Communion in
Southern Africa, August 2003, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
24. Convention between Churches and Theologians in Government, August 2003,
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Pietermaritzburg.
25. Consultation on Homosexuality, October 2003, Pietermaritzburg.
26. Spirits of Globalisation Workshop, March 2004, Durban.
27. African Renaissance: Unity of Faith Programme, March 2004, Durban.
28. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, November 2004, Johannesburg.
29. * Contextual Bible Study in Scotland, 10th Anniversary Day Conference, March 2005,
Glasgow, Scotland.
30. * Tamar Campaign Workshop in Africa: Ending Sexual Violence on Female Bodies,
World Council of Churches, St Paul’s United Theological College and Fellowship of
Christian Churches and Councils in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa, February-March
2005, Nairobi, Kenya
31. United Congregational Church of Southern Africa, 33rd Assembly, “Showing our Faith by
What We Do, Inanda, September 2005.
32. * Mutirão Workshops, World Council of Churches, Ninth Assembly, February 2006,
Porto Alegre, Brasil.
33. Men, Gender, and HIV/AIDS Project: Jesus the Man Bible Study Consultation,
Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness and KwaZulu-Natal Christian
Council, May and July, 2006, Pietermaritzburg.
34. * Council for World Mission Assembly: Take Home the Good News, July, 2006, Ochio
Rios, Jamaica.
35. * Mission Education School III, Council for World Mission, October, 2006, Durban,
South Africa.
36. * St Augustine Seminar, November, 2006, London, England.
37. * Theological Education for the Anglican Communion, May 2007, Singapore.
38. * Korsvei, Seljord, Norway, July.
39. * 4th Pan African Conference of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians:
The Girl Child, Women, Religion and HIV and AIDS in Africa September 2007, Yaounde,
Cameroun.
40. * Training of Trainers Programme on Rereading the Bible, January 2008, Nagpur, India.
41. * Congregational Renewal for Effective Engagement in Mission: Workshop on Rereading
the Bible, January 2008, Nagpur, India.
42. * Ujamaa/Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa Workshop, March 2008,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
43. * Bible Studies for the Lambeth Conference, July/August 2008, Canterbury, England.
44. * Contextual Bible Study Workshop, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, November
2009, Berkeley, USA.
45. * Contextual Bible Reading Consultation, February 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
46. * Contextual Bible Study Training Workshops, Ricatla Seminary, May/June 2010,
Mozambique.
47. The Bible in the Life of the Church Training Workshops, May and October 2010,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
48. New Frontiers in Liberation Theology – In Conversation with Prof Allan Boesak,
September 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa.
49. * Consultation on Sexuality, Ujamaa Centre and Chicago Consultation Workshop,
October 2011, Durban, South Africa.
50. disAbility ConneXion Workshop, March 2012, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
51. * Workshop on Contextual Bible Study and the Tamar Campaign, June 2012, Zeeuws
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Vlaanderen, the Netherlands.
52. * Circles of Dignity and Justice, Diocese of Huron Bishops’ Clergy Conference 2012,
November, Niagara Falls, Canada.
53. * Contextual Bible Study and Conversation, November 2012, Conrad Grebel University
College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
54. The Church as a Beacon of Hope in Troubled Times, Keynote Address at Opening of
Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, The Church as a Beacon of Hope in
Troubled Times, February 2013, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
55. Sexuality, Culture, Theological Tradition, and the Bible, Ujamaa Centre and
Pietermaritzburg Gay & Lesbian Network Workshop, April and May 2013, Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa.
56. * Contending with HIV, Contending with the Church: Building Redemptive Religious
Communities, Chart Consultation, May 2013, Durban, South Africa.
57. * Living Faith: Faith Practices as Sources of Survival, Liberation, and Life, Ujamaa
Centre and Mensen met een Missie Workshop, June 2013, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
58. * Consultation on Sexuality, Ujamaa Centre and Chicago Consultation Workshop,
July/August 2013, Limuru, Kenya.
59. * Diocese of Harare Clergy Theological Academy, August 2013, Harare, Zimbabwe.
60. * Contextual Bible Reading Consultation, December 2013, Brasilia, Brazil.
61. Interfaith Dialogue on Homosexuality and Hate Crime, March 2014, Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa.
62. Roundtable Dialogue on Gender and Sexuality: A Religious, Traditional and Political
Perspective, 15-16 August 2014, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
63. * Interfaith Organizing Initiative Consultation: Contextual Bible Study as a Strategy for
Social Justice Organizing, 21 November 2014, San Diego, USA.
64. * Networking ‘Contextual Bible Reading’ Project: Structures of Violence (with CEBI),
24-30 January 2015, Bogota, Colombia.
65. * Conversation on the Bible (with Biblica), 24-25 March 2015, Stellenbosch, South
Africa.
66. Think Tank: LGTBIQ Identities and Queer Perspectives (with Stellenbosch University in
collaboration with Inclusive and Affirming Ministries and the Center for Christian
Spirituality), 20 May 2015, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
67. * Reading Scripture Together Across the (Anglican) Communion, 20-24 June 2015,
Woking, England.
68. * Consultation on Sexuality (with the Chicago Consultation), 6-11 September 2015,
Elmina, Cape Coast, Ghana.
69. * The Lutheran World Federation Global Perspectives on the Reformation: Interactions
between Theology, Politics and Economics, 28 October-1 November 2015, Windhoek,
Namibia.
70. * Sugar daddy relationships and HIV Transmission: Religion as a Resource for Social
Change, Interfaith Preconference to AIDS 2016: Faith on the Fast Track: Reducing Stigma
and Discrimination, Increasing Access; and Defending Human Rights NOW!, 16-17 July,
2016, Durban, South Africa.
Academic Publications
Books
1. 1991. Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation: Modes of Reading the Bible in the South
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African Context, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications.
2. 1991. (With J.R. Cochrane (eds)) The Three-Fold Cord: Theology, Work and Labour,
Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications.
3. 1993. Contextual Bible Study, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications. Reprinted 1995.
Reprinted 2002.
4. 1995. Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation: Modes of Reading the Bible in the South
African Context, Second Revised Edition, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis and Pietermaritzburg:
Cluster Publications.
5. 1996. (With M. Dube (eds)) ‘Reading With’: An Exploration of the Interface between
Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible – African Overtures, Semeia 73.
6. 1999. The Academy of the Poor: Toward a Dialogical Reading of the Bible, Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press. Reprinted 2003, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications.
7. 2000. (With M.W. Dube (eds)) The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trends, and
Trajectories, Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Paperback, 2001).
8. 2006. Genesis: The People’s Bible Commentary, Oxford: The Bible Reading Fellowship.
9. 2007. (ed) Reading Other-Wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their
Local Communities, Semeia Studies 62, Atlanta and Leiden: SBL and E.J. Brill.
10. 2008. (With H. de Wit (eds)) African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue: In
Quest of a Shared Meaning, Leiden: E.J. Brill.
11. 2009. (With C. Amos, D. Chilongani, M. Chilton Callaway, S. Clarke, J. Muhindo, J.
Plane Te Paa) In the Beginning Was the Word: Group Bible Studies on the Gospel of John,
London: SPCK.
12. 2016. The Stolen Bible: From Instrument of Imperialism to African Icon, Leiden, E.J.
Brill.
Series Editor
1. 2001. (Board Editor) A Vanishing Mediator? The Presence/Absence of the Bible in
Postcolonialism, Semeia, 88.
2. 2003. (Board Editor) Draper, Jonathan (ed) Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern
Africa, Semeia Studies 46, Atlanta, Leiden and Pietermaritzburg: SBL, E.J. Brill and Cluster
Publications.
3. 2004. (Board Editor) Draper, Jonathan (ed) Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity,
Semeia Studies 47, Atlanta, Leiden and Pietermaritzburg: SBL, E.J. Brill and Cluster
Publications.
4. 2007. (Volume Editor) Avalos, H., Melcher, S.J., and Schipper, J. (eds) This Abled Body:
Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies, Semeia Studies 55, Atlanta: SBL.
5. 2010. (General Editor) Culbertson, P. and Wainwright, E.M. (eds) The Bible in/and
Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter, Semeia Studies 65, Atlanta: SBL.
6. 2011. (General Editor) Hornsby, T.J. and Stone K. (eds) Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at
the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship, Semeia Studies 67, Atlanta: SBL.
7. 2012. (General Editor) Vander Stichele, C. and Pyper, H.S. (eds) Text, Image, and
Otherness in Children’s Bibles: What Is in the Picture?, Semeia Studies 56, Atlanta: SBL.
8. 2012. (General Editor) Boer, R. and Segovia, F.F. (eds) The Future of the Biblical Past:
Envisioning Biblical Studies on a Global Key, Semeia Studies 66, Atlanta: SBL.
9. 2012. (General Editor) Elliot, S.S. and Boer, R. (eds) Ideology, Culture, and Translation,
Semeia Studies 69, Atlanta: SBL.
10. 2013. (General Editor) Boer, R. (ed) Postcolonialism and the Hebrew Bible: The Next
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Step, Semeia Studies 70, Atlanta: SBL.
11. 2013. (General Editor) Leander, Hans Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a
Postcolonial Perspective, Semeia Studies 71, Atlanta: SBL.
12. 2013. (General Editor) Claassens, L.J. and Spronk, K. (eds) Fragile Dignity:
Intercontextual Conversations on Scriptures, Family, and Violence, Semeia Studies 72,
Atlanta: SBL.
13. 2013. (General Editor) Bautch, R.J. and Racine, J-F. (eds) Beauty and the Bible: Toward
a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics, Semeia Studies 73, Atlanta: SBL.
14. 2014. (General Editor) Koosed, J.L. (ed) The Bible and Posthumanism, Semeia Studies
74, Atlanta: SBL.
15. 2014. (General Editor) Havea, J., Neville, D.J., and Wainwright, E.M. (eds) Bible,
Borders, and Belonging(s): Engaging Readings from Oceania, Semeia Studies 75, Atlanta:
SBL.
16. 2014. (General Editor) Thatcher, Tom (ed) Memory and Identity in Ancient Judaism and
Early Christianity: A Conversation with Barry Schwartz, Semeia Studies 78, Atlanta: SBL
Press.
17. 2014. (General Editor) Mainwaring, Simon Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health:
Encounters with Jesus, Semeia Studies 79, Atlanta: SBL Press.
18. 2014. (General Editor) Lozada Jr., Francisco and Segovia, Fernando F. (eds) Latino/a
Biblical Hermeneutics: Problematics, Objectives, Strategies, Semeia Studies 68, Atlanta:
SBL Press.
19. 2014. (General Editor) Vander Stichele, Caroline and Scholz, Susanne (eds) Hidden
Truths from Eden: Esoteric Readings of Genesis 1-3, Semeia Studies 76, Atlanta: SBL Press.
20. 2015. (General Editor) Havea, Jione, Aymer, Margaret, and Davidson, Steed Vernyl (eds)
Islands, Islanders, and the Bible: RumInations, Semeia Studies 77, Atlanta: SBL Press.
21. 2015. (General Editor) Darden, Lynee St. Clair, Scripturalizing Revelation: An African
American Postcolonial Reading of Empire, Semeia Studies 80, Atlanta: SBL Press.
22. 2015. (General Editor) de Wit, Hans and Dyk, Janet (eds) Bible and Transformation: The
Promise of Intercultural Bible Reading, Semeia Studies 81, Atlanta: SBL Press.
23. 2016. (General Editor) Scholtz, Susanne and Andiòach, Pablo R. (eds) La Violencia and
the Hebrew Bible, Semeia Studies 82, Atlanta: SBL Press.
Contributions to Books
1. 1989. (With J.A. Draper) Anglicans and Scripture in South Africa, in England, F. and
T.J.M. Paterson (eds) Bounty in Bondage, Johannesburg: Ravan, 30-52.
2. 1990. Reading 'The Text' and Reading 'Behind-the-Text': The Cain and Abel Story in a
Context of Liberation, in Clines, D.J.A., S.E. Fowl, and S.E. Porter (eds) The Bible in Three
Dimensions, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 299-320.
3. 1991. The Role of Contextual Bible Study in Developing Democratic Processes in South
Africa, in Nürnberger, K. (ed) A Democratic Vision for South Africa, Pietermaritzburg:
Encounter Publications, 137-143.
4. 1991. Preface, in Wittenberg, G.H. I Have Heard the Cry of My People: A Study Guide to
Exodus 1-15, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, ii-vi.
5. 1991. Silenced Women Speak: Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics, in Ackermann, D.,
Draper, J.A., and Mashinini, E. (eds) Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Women in the Church in
Southern Africa, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 76-90.
6. 1991. (With J.R. Cochrane (eds)) Introduction, in The Three-Fold Cord: Theology, Work
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and Labour, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications.
7. 1994. The Bible and Theology, in de Gruchy, J. and Villa-Vicencio, C. (eds) Doing
Theology in Context: South African Perspectives (Theology and Praxis Volume 1), New
York: Orbis and Cape Town: David Philip, 15-25.
8. 1995. Reading the Bible and Doing Theology in the New South Africa, in Carroll R.,
M.D., Clines, D.J.A., and Davies, P.R. (eds) The Bible in Human Society: Essays in Honour
of John Rogerson, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 445-458.
9. 1998. Reading the Joseph Story (Genesis 37-50) with Azaria Mbatha and Others, in
Addleson, J. (ed) Azaria Mbatha Retrospective Exhibition Catalogue, Durban: Durban Art
Gallery, 82-88.
10. 1999. The Use of the Bible among the Poor, in Rowland, C. (ed) The Cambridge
Companion to Liberation Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 129-152.
11. 1999. Local is Lekker, but Ubuntu is Best: Indigenous Reading Resources from a South
African Perspective, in Sugirtharajah, R.S. (ed) Vernacular Hermeneutics, Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 37-51.
12. 2000. Being Partially Constituted by Work with Others: Biblical Scholars Being
Missionized by Ordinary Readers of the Bible, in Okure, T. (ed) To Cast Fire Upon the
Earth: Bible and Mission Collaborating in Today's Multicultural Global Context,
Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 162-177.
13. 2000. Gauging the Grain in a More Nuanced and Literary Manner: A Cautionary Tale
Concerning the Contribution of the Social Sciences to Biblical Interpretation, in M. Daniel
Carroll R. (ed) Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts: Contributions from the Social Sciences
to Biblical Interpretation, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 75-105.
14. 2000. Between Two Gods: The Literary and Socio-historical Contexts of Biblical Values,
in Cochrane, James R. and Klein, Bastienne (eds) Sameness and Difference: Problems and
Potentials in South Africa Civil Society, Washington DC: The Council for Research in Values
and Philosophy, 281-304.
15. 2000. (With Musa W. Dube) Introduction, in West, Gerald O. and Dube, Musa W. (eds)
The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends Leiden: E.J. Brill.
16. 2000. Mapping African Biblical Interpretation: A Tentative Sketch, in West, Gerald O.
and Dube, Musa W. (eds) The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends Leiden:
E.J. Brill, 29-53.
17. 2000. Contextual Bible Study in South Africa: A Resource for Reclaiming and Regaining
Land, Dignity and Identity, in West, Gerald O. and Dube, Musa W. (eds) The Bible in Africa:
Transactions, Trajectories and Trends Leiden: E.J. Brill, 595-610. (= 2001. Contextual Bible
Study in South Africa: A Resource for Reclaiming and Regaining Land, Dignity and Identity,
in Speckman, McGlory T. and Kaufmann, Larry T. (eds) Towards an Agenda for Contextual
Theology: Essay in Honour of Albert Nolan, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 169184.)
18. 2001. Liberation Theology: Africa and the Bible, in Rogerson, John (ed) The Oxford
Illustrated History of the Bible Oxford: Oxford University Press, 330-342.
19. 2001. Mapping African Biblical Interpretation, in Getui, Mary N., Maluleke, Tinyiko, and
Ukpong, Justin (eds) Interpreting the New Testament in Africa Nairobi: Acton, 83-103.
20. 2002. Tribes in Africa: The Impact of Norman Gottwald’s Tribes of Yahweh on African
Biblical Hermeneutics (with an Emphasis on Liberation and Inculturation Paradigms), in
Boer, Roland (ed) Tracking a Classic: The Tribes of Yahweh, Twenty Years On, Sheffield:
Continuum/Sheffield Academic Press, 87-99.
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21. 2002. Unpacking the Package That Is the Bible in African Biblical Scholarship, in
Ukpong, J. (ed) Reading the Bible in the Global Village: Cape Town Atlanta: Society of
Biblical Literature, 65-94.
22. 2002. Disguising Defiance in Ritualisms of Subordination: Literary and Communitybased Resources for Recovering Resistance Discourse Within the Dominant Discourses of the
Bible, in Phillips, Gary A. and Duran, Nicole W. (eds) Reading Communities Reading
Scripture, Lewisburg, PA: Trinity International, 194-217.
23. 2002. Negotiating with ‘the White Man’s Book’: Early Foundations for Liberation
Hermeneutics in Southern Africa, in Katongole, Emmanuel (ed) African Theology Today,
Scranton: The University of Scranton Press, 23-56.
24. 2002. Neglected Dimensions of Biblical Interpretation in the African Context: Equipping
the Church to Respond to the Cries of the Poor, in Kanyandago, Peter (ed) The Cries of the
Poor in Africa: Questions and Responses for African Christianity, Kisubi: Marianum
Publishing Company, 79-100.
25. 2003. The Bible as Bola, and Biblical Interpretation as Marabi: Tlhaping Transactions
with the Bible, in Draper, Jonathan A. (ed) Script, Subjugation and Subversion: Essays in
Orality, Literacy and Colonialism in Antiquity and Modern Africa, Semeia Studies, Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature and Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 41-55.
26. 2003. Judith, in Dunn, J.D.G. and Rogerson, J.W. (eds) Eerdmans Commentary on the
Bible, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 748-757.
27. 2003. Ruth, in Dunn, J.D.G. and Rogerson, J.W. (eds) Eerdmans Commentary on the
Bible, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 208-212.
28. 2003. Redirecting the Direction of Travel: Discerning Signs of a Neo-indigenous
Southern African Biblical Hermeneutics, in Boer, Roland and Conrad, Edgar W. (eds)
Redirected Travel: Alternative Journeys and Places in Biblical Studies, London: T&T Clark,
201-225.
29. 2004. Artful Facilitation and Creating a Safe Interpretive Site: An Analysis of Aspects of
a Bible Study, in de Wit, H., Jonker, L., Kool, M. And Schipani, D. (eds) Through the Eyes of
Another: Intercultural Reading of the Bible, Amsterdam: Institute of Mennonite Studies,
Vrije Universiteit, 211-237.
30. 2004. 1 and 2 Samuel, in Patte, Daniel (ed) Global Bible Commentary, Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 92-104.
31. 2004. Comparative and Reception Paradigms: A Response to Draper, “A ‘Frontier’
Reading of Romans”, in Khiok-khng, Yeo (ed) Navigating Romans through Cultures:
Challenging Readings by Charting a New Course, New York and London: T&T Clark, 8392.
32. 2004. Explicating Domination and Resistance: A Dialogue between James C. Scott and
Biblical Scholars, in Horsley, Richard A. (ed) Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance:
Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul, Semeia Studies 48, Atlanta and
Leiden: SBL and E.J. Brill, 173-194.
33. 2005. African Biblical Hermeneutics and Bible Translation, in Lobe-Mkole, Jean-Claude
and Wendland, Ernst R. (eds) Interacting with Scriptures in Africa, Nairobi: Acton, 3-29.
34. 2005. African Hermeneutics, in Jonker, Louis and Lawrie, Douglas (eds) Fishing for
Jonah (Anew): Various Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 207218.
35. 2006. Contextuality, in Sawyer, John F.A. (ed) The Blackwell Companion to the Bible
and Culture, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 399-413.
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36. 2007. Reading Other-Wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local
Communities: An Introduction, in West, Gerald O. (ed) Reading Other-Wise: Socially
Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities, Semeia Studies 62,
Atlanta and Leiden: SBL and E.J. Brill, 1-5.
37. 2007. (Ac)claiming the (Extra)ordinary African ‘Reader’ of the Bible, in West, Gerald O.
(ed) Reading Other-Wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local
Communities, Semeia Studies 62, Atlanta and Leiden: SBL and E.J. Brill, 29-47.
38. 2008. (With H. de Wit and H. Snoek) Introduction, in de Wit, Hans and West, Gerald O.
(eds) African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue: In Quest of a Shared Meaning,
Leiden: E.J. Brill, ix-xiv.
39. 2008. Contending with the Bible: Biblical Interpretation as a Site of Struggle in South
Africa, in Kittredge, C.B., Aitken, E.B., and Draper, J.A. (eds) The Bible in the Public
Square: Reading the Signs of the Times, Minneapolis: Fortress, 101-115.
40. 2008. The Poetry of Job as a Resource for the Articulation of Embodied Lament in the
Context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, in Lee, Nancy C. and Mandolfo, Carleen (eds)
Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts, Atlanta: Society of Biblical
Literature, 195-214.
41. 2008. Liberation Criticism, in Gooder, P. (ed) Searching for Meaning: An Introduction to
Interpreting the New Testament, London: SPCK, 152-159.
42. 2009. The Not So Silent Citizen: Hearing Embodied Theology in the Context of HIV and
AIDS in South Africa, in Wyller, T. (ed) Heterotopic Citizen: New Research on Religious
Work for the Disadvantaged, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 23-42.
43. 2009. Thabo Mbeki’s Bible: the Role of Religion in the South African Public Realm after
Liberation, in Brown, D. (ed) Religion and Spirituality in South Africa: New Perspectives,
Pietermaritzburg: KwaZulu-Natal University Press, 78-106.
44. 2009. Constructing African Christianity: The Voice of Paul in the Formative Teachings of
Isaiah Shembe, in Middleton, Paul, Paddison, Angus and Wenell, Karen (eds) Paul, Grace
and Freedom: Essays in Honour of John K. Riches, London and New York: T&T Clark, 130144.
45. 2009. Liberation Hermeneutics after Liberation in South Africa, in Andiñach, P.R. and
Botta, Alejandro F. (eds), The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation, Semeia Studies 59,
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 13-38. (= 2014 Liberation Hermeneutics after
Liberation in South Africa, in Omenyo, Cephas N. and Anum, Eric B. (eds) Trajectories of
Religion in Africa: Essays in Honour of John S. Pobee, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi,
341-381.
46. 2009. Male and Female Bodies in the Teaching of Isaiah Shembe: Possible Implications
for HIV and AIDS, in Richardson, Neville (ed) Broken Bodies and Healing Communities:
The Challenge of HIV and AIDS in the South African Context, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster
Publications, 39-60.
47. 2010. (With T. Ndlazi) “Leadership and Land”: A Very Contextual Interpretation of
Genesis 37-50 in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa, in Brenner Athalya, Lee, Archie Chi Chung,
and Yee, Gale A. (eds) genesis: texts@contexts, Minneapolis: Fortress, 175-190.
48. 2010. Biblical Hermeneutics in Africa, in Stinton, Diane B. (ed) African Theology on the
Way: Current Conversations, London: SPCK, 21-31.
49. 2010. The Contribution of Tamar’s Story to the Construction of Alternative African
Masculinities, in Kamionkowski, Tamar and Wonil, Kim (eds) Bodies, Embodiment, and
Theology of the Hebrew Bible, London: T&T Clark, 184-200. (= 2012. The Contribution of
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Tamar’s Story to the Construction of Alternative African Masculinities, in Chitando, E. and
Chirongoma, S. (eds) Redemptive Masulinities: Men, HIV and Religion, Geneva: World
Council of Churches, 173-191.)
50. 2011. From a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) of the Economy to the
RDP of the Soul: Public Realm Biblical Appropriation in Postcolonial South Africa, in
Coomber, Matthew J.M. (ed) Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges, London:
Equinox, 122-144.
51. 2011. Newsprint Theology: Bible in the Context of HIV and AIDS, in Havea, J. and
Pearson, C. (eds) Out of Place: Doing Theology on the Crosscultural Brink, London:
Equinox Publishing, 161-186.
52. 2011. (With B. Zengele) Time for Jesus to Wake up, in Vincent, J. (ed) Stilling the Storm:
Contemporary Responses to Mark 4:35-5:1, Blandford Forum: Deo Publishing, 97-105.
53. 2011. Sacred Texts – Particularly the Bible and the Qur’an – and HIV and AIDS:
Charting the Textual Territory, in Haddad, B. (ed) Religion and HIV and AIDS: Charting the
Terrain, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 135-165.
54. 2011. First Sunday in Creation: Earth Sunday, in Habel, N.C., Rhoads, D., and Santmire,
H.P. (eds) The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary, Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
126-142.
55. 2012. Indigenous Biblical Hermeneutics: Voicing Continuity and Distinctiveness, in
Dube, M.W., Mbuvi, A.M. and Mbuwayesango, D.R. (eds) Postcolonial Perspectives in
African Biblical Interpretations, Atlanta: SBL, 85-96.
56. 2012. White Theology in a Black Frame: Betraying the Logic of Social Location, in
Cochrane, J.R., Bongmba, E., Phiri, I., and van der Water, D. (eds) Living on the Edge:
Essays in Honour of Steve de Gruchy, Activist & Theologian, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster
Publications, 60-78.
57. 2013. The Tamar Campaign: Returning Tamar’s Testimony to the Church, in Phiri, I.A.
and Werner, D. (eds) Handbook of Theological Education in Africa, Pietermaritzburg:
Cluster Publications, 671-681.
58. 2013. The School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics: Doing Contextual Theology in
Africa in the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in in Phiri, I.A. and Werner, D. (eds) Handbook
of Theological Education in Africa, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 919-926.
59. 2013. The Son of Man in South Africa?, in Walsh, R., Staley, J.L., and Reinhartz, A. (eds)
Son of Man: An African Jesus Film, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2-22.
60. 2013. (With S. Zwane) “Why Are You Sitting There?” Reading Matthew 20:1-16 in the
Context of Casual Workers in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in Wilkinson Duran, N. and
Grimshaw, J. (eds) Matthew: texts@contexts, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 175-188.
61. 2013. African Culture as Praeparatio Evangelica: The Old Testament as Preparation of
the African Post-colonial, in Boer, R. (ed) Postcolonialism and the Hebrew Bible: The Next
Step, Semeia Studies 70, Atlanta: SBL, 193-220.
62. 2013. Liberation Hermeneutics, in McKenzie, S.L. (ed) The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Biblical Interpretation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 507-515.
63. 2013. Deploying the Literary Detail of a Biblical Text (2 Samuel 13:1-22) in Search of
Redemptive Masculinities, in Aitken, J.K., Clines, J.M.S., and Maier, C.M. (eds) Interested
Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J.A. Clines, Atlanta: SBL, 297-312.
64. 2013. The Bible and the Poor, in Hoggarth, P., Macdonald, F., Mitchell, B., and
Jørgensen, K. (eds) Bible and Mission, Oxford: Regnum Books International, 159-167.
65. 2014. Job 3 and 42 and Their Relation to People Living with HIV in South Africa, in
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Roncace, M. and Weaver, J. (eds) Global Perspectives on the Bible, Boston: Pearson, 170171.
66. 2014. The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard and the Unemployed in South Africa,
in Roncace, M. and Weaver, J. (eds) Global Perspectives on the Bible, Boston: Pearson, 239240.
67. 2015. Africa’s Liberation Theologies: An Historical-Hermeneutical Analysis, in Brunn,
S.D. (ed) The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and
Politics, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, Volume 3, 1971-1986.
68. 2015. Locating ‘Contextual Bible Study’ and Intercultural Biblical Hermeneutics within
Biblical Liberation Hermeneutics, in Schipani, D.S., Brinkman, M., and Snoek, H. (eds) New
Perspectives on Intercultural Reading of the Bible: Hermeneutical Explorations in Honor of
Hans de Wit, Elkhart: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 107-135.
69. 2015. Reception of the Bible: the Bible in Africa, in Riches, J. (ed) The New Cambridge
History of the Bible: From 1750 to the Present, Volume 4, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 347-390.
70. 2015. Contending for Dignity in the Bible and the Post-Apartheid South African Public
Realm, in Claassens, L.J. and Birch, B.C. (eds) Restorative Readings: The Old Testament,
Ethics, and Human Dignity, Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 76-96.
71. 2015. “Senzeni Na?” From Lament to Restoration: Reading Job 42 in the Context of HIV
and AIDS, in Moyo, H. (ed.) Pastoral Care in a Globalised World African and European
Perspectives, Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 116-131.
72. 2015. The Bible, in Chapman, M.D., Clarke, S., and Percy, M. (eds) The Oxford
Handbook of Anglican Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 359-371.
73. 2015. (With K. Ngwa) African Art, in Beal, T. (ed) The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible
and the Arts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 22-35.
74. 2016. The Bible in an African Christianity: South African Black Theology, in Bongmba,
E.K. (ed) The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa, New York and London:
Routledge, 141-155.
75. 2016. Global Thefts of Biblical Narrative, in Fewell, D.N. (ed) The Oxford Handbook of
Biblical Narrative, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 573-584.
76. 2016. Recovering the Biblical Story of Tamar: Training for Transformation, Doing
Development, in Odén, R. (ed) For Better, For Worse: The Role of Religion in Development
Cooperation, Halmstad: Swedish Mission Council, 135-147.
77. 2016. Reconfiguring a Biblical Story (Genesis 19) in the Context of South African
Discussions about Homosexuality, in Chitando, E. and van Klinken A. (eds) Christianity and
Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa, Abingdon and New York:
Routledge, 184-198.
78. 2016. The Role of the Bible in African Christianity, in Phiri, I.A. and Werner, D. (eds)
Anthology of African Christianity, Oxford: Regnum Books International, 76-88.
79. 2016. The Relevance of Body Theology for Development in African Christianity, in Phiri,
I.A. and Werner, D. (eds) Anthology of African Christianity, Oxford: Regnum Books
International, 1208-1218.
80. 2016. Between Text and Trauma: Reading Job with People Living with HIV, in Boase, E.
and Frechette, C.G. (eds) Bible through the Lens of Trauma, Atlanta: SBL Press, 209-230.
Journal Articles
1. 1990. Can a Literary Reading Be a Liberative Reading?, in Scriptura, 35, 10-25.
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2. 1990. Two Modes of Reading the Bible in the South African Context of Liberation, in
Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 73, 34-47.
3. 1991. Hearing Job's Wife: Towards a Feminist Reading of Job, in Old Testament Essays,
4, 107-131.
4. 1991. The Relationship Between Different Modes of Reading and the Ordinary Reader,
Scriptura, S9, 87-110.
5. 1992. Some Parameters of the (Biblical) Hermeneutic Debate in the South African
Context, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 80, 3-13.
6. 1992. Interesting and Interested Readings: Deconstruction, the Bible, and the South
African Context, Scriptura, 42, 35-49.
7. 1993. The Interface between Trained Readers and Ordinary Readers in Liberation
Hermeneutics – a Case Study: Mark 10:17-22, Neotestamentica, 27, 165-180.
8. 1993. (With J.R. Cochrane) War, Remembrance and Reconstruction, Journal of Theology
for Southern Africa, 84, 25-40.
9. 1993. Engagement, Criticality, and Contextualization: Core Concepts in the
Teaching/Learning of Biblical Studies in a South African Context, Scriptura, S11, 1-17.
10. 1993. No Integrity without Contextuality: The Presence of Particularity in Biblical
Hermeneutics and Pedagogy, Scriptura, S11, 131-146.
11. 1994. Difference and Dialogue: Reading the Joseph Story with Poor and Marginalized
Communities in South Africa, Biblical Interpretation, 2, 152-170.
12. 1995. Constructing Critical and Contextual Readings with Ordinary Readers: Mark
5:21-6:1, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 92, 60-69.
13. 1996. The Effect and Power of Discourse: A Case Study of Metaphor in Hosea,
Scriptura, 57, 201-212.
14. 1996. J, E, D, P and the RDP: Biblical Sources for Transition and Transformation,
Sciptura, 58, 251-262.
15. 1996. Power and Pedagogy in a South African Context: A Case Study in Biblical Studies,
Academic Development, 2, 47-65.
16. 1996. Reading the Bible Differently: Giving Shape to the Discourses of the Dominated,
Semeia, 73, 21-41.
17. 1996. (With M. Dube) An Introduction: How We Have Come to ‘Read With’, Semeia,
73, 7-17.
18. 1996. Don’t Stand on my Story: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Intellectuals,
Genre, and Identity, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 98, 3-12.
19. 1997. Re-membering the Bible in South Africa: Reading Strategies in a Postcolonial
Context, Jian Dao, 8, 37-62.
20. 1997. Finding a Place among the Posts for Post-Colonial Criticism in Biblical Studies in
South Africa, Old Testament Essays, 10, 322-342.
21. 1997. On the Eve of an African Biblical Studies: Trajectories and Trends, Journal of
Theology for Southern Africa, 99, 99-115.
22. 1997. Reading on the Boundaries: Reading 2 Samuel 21:1-14 with Rizpah, Scriptura,
63, 527-537.
23. 1998. Re-reading the Bible with African Resources: Interpretative Strategies for
Reconstruction in a Postcolonial, Post-Apartheid Context on the Eve of Globalization,
Journal of Constructive Theology, 4, 3-32.
24. 1998. Biblical Scholars Inventing Ancient Israel and ‘Ordinary Readers’ of the Bible Reinventing Biblical Studies, Old Testament Essays, 11, 629-644.
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25. 1999. Reading from This Place (with These People and for This Purpose) Journal of
Theology for Southern Africa, 103, 94-100.
26. 1999. Reading Other-wise: Re-envisaging the Reading Practices and Place of the Socially
Engaged Biblical Scholar, Scriptura, 68, 49-66.
27. 1999. Contextual Bible Study: Creating Sacred (and Safe) Spaces for Social
Transformation, Grace and Truth, 16, 51-62.
28. 2000. Debt and Jubilee: Systems of Enslavement and Strategies for Liberation, Bulletin
for Contextual Theology in Africa, 6, 14-17.
29. 2000. White Men, Bibles, and Land: Ingredients in Biblical Interpretation in South
African Black Theology, Scriptura, 73, 141-152.
30. 2000. Editorial, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 108, 1-2. [Guest Editor of
volume]
31. 2000. Kairos 2000: Moving Beyond Church Theology, Journal of Theology for Southern
Africa, 108, 55-78.
32. 2001. A Real Presence, Subsumed by Others: The Bible in Colonial and Postcolonial
Contexts, Semeia, 88, 199-214.
33. 2002. The Bible As Bola: Among the Foundations of African Biblical Apprehensions,
Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 112, 23-37.
34. 2002. Reading Abused Female Bodies in the Bible: Interpretative Strategies for
Recognising and Recovering the Stories of Women Inscribed by Violence but Circumscribed
by Patriarchal Text (2 Kings 5), Old Testament Essays, 15, 240-258.
35. 2002. Indigenous Exegesis: Exploring the Interface Between Missionary Methods and the
Rhetorical Rhythms of Africa – Locating Local Reading Resources in the Academy,
Neotestimentica, 36, 147-162. (= (Abridged) 2002. Indigenous Exegesis: Locating Local
Reading Resources in the Academy, Grace and Truth, 19, 66-82.)
36. 2003. Early Indications of the Bible’s Place in Public Morality: The BaTlhaping, William
Burchell and the Bible, Scriptura, 82, 157-177.
37. 2003. Reading the Bible in the Light of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, The Ecumenical
Review, 55, 335-344. (= 2005. De Bijbel Opnieuw Lezen in Zuid-Africka: ‘Ik ga Liever naar
Bijbelstudie dan naar de Kerk’, Wereld en Zending, 34, 2, 46-59.)
38. 2004. Beyond the ‘Critical’ Curtain: Community-based Service Learning in an African
Context, Teaching Theology and Religion, 7, 71-82.
39. 2004. (With B. Zengele) Reading Job ‘Positively’ in the Context of HIV/AIDS in South
Africa, Concilium, 4, 112-124. (= 2005. (With B. Zengele) Job ‘positief’lezen in de context
van HIV/AIDS in Zuid-Afrika, in van Wolde, Ellen (ed) De God van Job, Zoetermeer:
Uitgeverij Meinema, 93-110.)
40. 2004. (With P. Zondi-Mabizela, M. Maluleke, H. Khumalo, P.S. Matsepe and M. Naidoo)
Rape in the House of David: The Biblical Story of Tamar as a Resource for Transformation,
Agenda, 61, 36-41.
41. 2004. Early Encounters with the Bible among the BaTlhaping: Historical and
Hermeneutical Signs, Biblical Interpretation, 12, 251-281.
42. 2004. (With P. Zondi-Mabizela) The Bible Story that Became a Campaign: The Tamar
Campaign in South Africa (and beyond), Ministerial Formation, 103, 4-12.
43. 2004. Taming Texts of Terror: Reading (against) the Gender Grain of 1 Timothy,
Scriptura, 86, 160-173.
44. 2004. The Historicity of Myth and the Myth of Historicity: Locating the Ordinary African
‘Reader’ in the Debate, Neotestamentica, 38, 127-144. (= 2006. The Historicity of Myth and
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the Myth of Historicity: Locating the Ordinary African ‘Reader’ in the Debate, in McGaughey
D.R. and Cyss Crocker, C. (eds) From Biblical Interpretation to Human Transformation:
Reopening the Past to Actualize New Possibilities for the Future: Essays Honoring Herman
C. Waetjen, Salem: Chora Strangers, 232-243.)
45. 2004. The Bible and Economics: Historical and Hermeneutical Reflections from South
Africa, African Journal of Biblical Studies, XX, 93-122.
46. 2005. Articulating, Owning and Mainstreaming Local Theologies: The Contribution of
Contextual Bible Study, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 122, 23-35.
47. 2005. Shifting Perspectives on the Comparative Paradigm in (South) African Biblical
Scholarship, Journal of Religion and Theology, 12, 48-72.
48. 2005. Structural Sin: A South African Perspective, Ung Teologi, 1/05, 15-26. (= 2007.
Structural Sin: A South African Perspective, the other journal.com, 10, 1-10.
Http://www.theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=113; = 2016. The Personal and the Social:
Structural Sin, Worldwide: The Church in Southern Africa – Open to the World, 26, 5, 2025.)
49. 2005. (With T. F. Sitoto) Other Ways of Reading the Qur’an and the Bible in Africa:
Isaiah Shembe and Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba, Postscripts, 1, 47-76.
50. 2006. Reading Shembe ‘Re-membering’ the Bible: Isaiah Shembe’s Instructions on
Adultery, Neotestamentica, 40, 157-184.
51. 2006. (With B. Zengele) The Medicine of God’s Word: What People Living with HIV
and AIDS Want (and Get) from the Bible, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 125, 5163.
52. 2006. Contextual Bible Reading: A South African Case Study, Analecta Bruxellensia, 11,
131-148.
53. 2006. The Vocation of an African Biblical Scholar on the Margins of Biblical
Scholarship, Old Testament Essays, 19/1, 307-336. (= 2006. The Vocation of an African
Biblical Scholar on the Margins of Biblical Scholarship, in Bergen, W.J. and Siedlecki, A.
(eds) Voyages in Unchartered Waters: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Biblical
Interpretation in Honor of David Jobling, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 142-171.)
54. 2006. Exegese en Actualisatie van de Bijbel vanuit Afrikaans Perspectief, Theologisch
Debat, 3, 4-13.
55. 2007. The Bible and the Female Body in Ibandla lamaNazaretha: Isaiah Shembe and
Jephthah’s Daughter, Old Testament Essays, 20, 2, 489-509.
56. 2008. Thabo Mbeki’s Bible: The Role of Religion in the South African Public Realm
after Liberation, SBL Forum, cited May 2008, http://sbl-ArticleID=770
57. 2008. The Contextual Bible Study Process, Samskriti, 13, 1, 66-72.
58. 2008. Doing Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation @home: Ten Years of (South) African
Ambivalence, Neotestamentica, 42, 1, 147-164. (= 2009. What Difference Does Postcolonial
Biblical Criticism Make? Reflections from a (South) African Perspective, in Liew, Benny
Tat-siong (ed) Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R.S. Sugirtharajah, Sheffield:
Sheffield Phoenix Press, 256-273.)
59. 2008. Before the Missionaries: The Bible in North Africa, Missionalia, 36, 2/3, 242-258.
60. 2008/09. Community Reconstructing Biblical Studies Pedagogy: The Case of Tamar and
Kerina, Journal of Constructive Theology, 14, 2/15, 1, 73-90.
61. 2009. Human Flourishing and Social Transformation: Bringing Embodied Theology into
the Public Realm, Reformed World, 59, 3, 163-179.
62. 2009. (Southern) African Anglican Biblical Interpretation: A Postcolonial Project,
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Journal of Anglican Studies, 8, 2, 140-164.
63. 2009. The Beginning of African Biblical Interpretation: The Bible Among the Batlhaping,
Acta Theologica, Supplementem 12, The Bible and Its Translations: Colonial and
Postcolonial Encounters with the Indigenous, 33-47.
64. 2010. The Legacy of Liberation Theologies in South Africa, with an Emphasis on Biblical
Hermeneutics, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, XXXVI, Supplement, 157-183.
65. 2010. ‘GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE’: Between Retribution and Redemption in Trevor
Makhoba’s Engagement with HIV and AIDS, de arte, 81, 42-52.
66. 2010. Jesus, Jacob Zuma, and the New Jerusalem: Religion in the Public Realm between
Polokwane and the Presidency, Journal for the Study of Religion, 23, 1&2, 43-70.
67. 2010. Unstructural Analysis of the Bible Reinforcing Unstructural Analysis of African
Contexts in (South) Africa?, Old Testament Essays, 23, 3, 861-888.
68. 2011. Do Two Walk Together? Walking with the Other through Contextual Bible Study,
Anglican Theological Review, 93, 3, 431-449.
69. 2011. Tracking an Ancient Near Eastern Economic System: The Tributary Mode of
Production and the Temple-State, Old Testament Essays, 24, 2, 511-532.
70. 2012. After the Missionaries: Historical and Hermeneutical Dimensions of African
Appropriations of the Bible in Sub-Saharan Africa, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae,
XXXVIII, 1, 111-130.
71. 2012. Wir werden nicht mehr schweigen! Tamars Geschichte und die Arbeit für GenderGerechtigkeit in Afrika, Bibel und Kirche, 3, 164-170.
72. 2012. Tracing the ‘Kairos’ Trajectory from South Africa (1985) to Palestine (2009):
Discerning Continuities and Differences, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 143, 4-22.
73. 2013. Locating Contextual Bible Study within Praxis, Diaconia, 4, 43-48.
74. 2013. And Finally ... How a Text of Terror Becomes a Text of Redemption, The
Expository Times, 125, 3, December, 156.
75. 2013. Exegesis Seeking Appropriation; Appropriation Seeking Exegesis: Re-reading 2
Samuel 12:1-22 in Search of Redemptive Masculinities, Verbum et Ecclesia, 34, 2, Art. #761,
6 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v34i2.761
76. 2013. (With L. Phiri) Same-sex Orientation and the Imago Dei: A Focus on ‘Men Who
Love Other Men’ in Lusaka, Zambia, Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa, 19, 2,
Special Issue, 55-74.
77. 2014. Locating ‘Contextual Bible Study’ within Biblical Liberation Hermeneutics and
Intercultural Biblical Hermeneutics, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 70, 1, Art.
#2641, 10 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v70i1.2641
78. 2014. Juxtaposing “Many Cattle” in Biblical Narrative (Jonah 4:11), Imperial Narrative,
Neo-indigenous Narrative, Old Testament Essays, 27, 2, 722-751.
79. 2015. Twice Called, Thrice Rebuked: Doing African Biblical Scholarship, Journal of
Biblical Literature, 134, 4, 850-854.
80. 2015. The Dignity the Poor Demand after Liberation in South Africa, Concilium, 3, 4755.
80. 2015. Reading the Bible with the Marginalised: The Value/s of Contextual Bible Reading,
Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 1, 2, 235-261.
81. 2016. (With B.G. Haddad) Boaz as ‘Sugar Daddy’: Re-reading Ruth in the Context of
HIV, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 155, 137-156.
82. 2016. Towards an African Liberationist Queer Theological Pedagogy, Journal of
Theology for Southern Africa, 155, 216-224.
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83. 2016. (With C. Van der Walt, C. and J.K. Kapya) When Faith Does Violence:
Reimagining Engagement between Churches and LGBTI Groups on Homophobia in Africa,
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 72(1), a3511.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i1.3511
84. 2016. Accountable African Biblical Scholarship: Post-colonial and Tri-polar,
Canon&Culture, 20, 35-67.
85. 2017. The Co-Optation of the Bible by ‘Church Theology’ in Post-Liberation South
Africa: Returning to the Bible as a ‘Site of Struggle’, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa
156, 185-198.
86. 2017. Redaction Criticism as a Resource for the Bible as ‘a Site of Struggle’, Old
Testament Essays, 30, 2, 525-545.
87. Senzeni Na? Speaking of God ‘What is Right’ and the ‘Return’ of the Stigmatising
Community in the Context of HIV, Scriptura, 116, 2, 260-277.
Papers in Published Conference Proceedings
1. 1991. (With J.A. Draper) The Bible and Social Transformation in South Africa: A
Work-in-progress Report on The Institute for the Study of the Bible, in SBL Papers, 366-382.
2. 1994. The Challenge of Ideologiekritik: The Biblical Text as a Site of Struggle, in
Mouton, J. and Lategan, B. (eds) The Relevance of Theology for the 1990's, Pretoria: HSRC,
273-290.
3. 1994. Recovering the Suppressed Past and Reconstructing the Future: Historical
Consciousness in Biblical and Theological Liberation Hermeneutics, in Mouton, J. (ed)
Science and Vision, Pretoria: HSRC.
4. 1995. And the Dumb Do Speak: Articulating Incipient Readings of the Bible in
Marginalised Communities, in Rogerson, J.W., Davies, M., and Carroll, R., M.D. (eds) The
Bible in Ethics, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 174-192.
5. 1996. The Future of Religion in the 21st Century: A South African Perspective, in DuToit,
C. W. (ed) New Modes of Thinking on the Eve of a New Century: South African Perspectives,
Pretoria: Unisa, 146-160.
6. 1997. Re-Reading the Bible with African Resources: Interpretative Strategies for
Reconstruction in a Post-Colonial Context, in Mugambi, Jesse N.K. (ed) The Church and
Reconstruction of Africa: Theological Considerations, Nairobi: AACC, 129-162.
7. 2004. The Open and Closed Bible: the Bible in African Theologies, in Conradie, Ernst M.
(ed) African Christian Theologies in Transformation, Stellenbosch: EFSA, 162-180.8. 2008.
8. 2008. Interrogating the Comparative Paradigm in African Biblical Scholarship, in de Wit
and West, Gerald O. (eds) African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue: In Quest
of a Shared Meaning, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 37-64.
9. 2009. Interpreting ‘The Exile’ in African Biblical Scholarship: an Ideo-theological
Dilemma in Post-colonial South Africa, in Becking, B. and Human, D. (eds) Exile and
Suffering: A Selection of Papers Read at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Old Testament
Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria August 2007, Leiden: Brill, 247-267.
10. 2009. The ANC’s Deployment of Religion in Nation-Building: From Thabo Mbeki, to
“The RDP of the Soul”, to Jacob Zuma, in du Toit, Cornel (ed) Power Sharing and African
Democracy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Pretoria: Unisa, 89-120. (= 2012. The ANC’s
Deployment of Religion in Nation-Building: From Thabo Mbeki, to “The RDP of the Soul”,
to Jacob Zuma, in Gunda, M.R. and Kügler (eds) The Bible and Politics in Africa, Bamberg:
University of Bamberg Press, 115-144).
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11. 2017. Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid
South Africa, in Bochinger, C. and Rüpke, J. (With Begemann, E.) (eds) Dynamics of
Religion Past and Present, Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International
Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29, 2015, Berlin: De Gruyter, 6983.
Editorial Boards
1993-94: Co-Editor Bibliography in Contextual Theology in Africa
1994-2001: Editorial Board Bulletin for Contextual Theology in Africa
1996: Guest Editor, Semeia
1996-present: Editorial Board, Old Testament Essays
1998-2004: Editorial Board, Semeia/Semeia Studies
2001-present: Editorial Board, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
2004-2006: Forum Advisory Board, Society of Biblical Literature
2004-present: Editorial Board, The Bible and Critical Theory
2004-present: Board, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa
2004-present: Editorial Board, Postscripts
2007: Volume Editor, Semeia Studies
2010-present: General Editor, Semeia Studies
2010-present: Editorial Board, Biblical Interpretation
2010-11: Editorial Board, Journal of Postcolonial Studies
2010-present: Editorial Board, Soma: An International Journal of Contemporary Theological
Discourses and Counter-Discourses
2010-present: General Editor, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa
2012-present: Editorial Board, Colloquium: the Australian and New Zealand Theological
Review.
National Research Foundation Representation
1994-present: Reviewer for NRF Research Grants
1999-2000: Advisory Panel for Theology, Ancient and Near Eastern Studies
2005: Member of Assessment Panel for Religious Studies and Theology
2006-2007: Convenor of Assessment Panel for Religious Studies and Theology
2006-2007: Steering Committee for Evaluation and Rating Data Project
Postgraduate Supervision (Masters and PhD)
Graduated students
Long, Timothy (MA; co-supervisor), 1990
Reading Paul in the South African context of struggle for liberation: some insights from Latin
American liberation theology
Ruf, Margarete (MTh; co-supervisor), 1993
Kontextuelle Bibelarbeiten zu dem Thema : “Jungersein/Nachfolge nach dem
Markusevangelium”: eine praktische Studie. Durchgefuhrt in lutherischen Gemeinden in
Natal
Wittenberg, Gertrud (MTh), 1994
Methods of transformative Bible study: a comparison of two ways of doing Bible study in a
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Brazilian base community
Mngadi, Paul Thembinkosi (MTh), 1996
The local church as a visible hermeneutical community
Garman, Anthea (MA), 1996
What is really real?: a feminist critique of the Christian symbolic universe
Long, Timothy (PhD; co-supervisor), 1996
Narrator, audiences, and message: a South African reader-response study of narrative
relationships in the Book of Revelation
Lees, Janet (MTh), 1997
Interpreting the Bible with people with communication difficulties
Masipa, Lekoapa Patrick (MTh), 1997
The use of the Bible in Black Theology, with reference to the story of Exodus
Brandt, Newton (MTh), 2000
An analysis of the interpretation and celebration of the three pilgrimage festivals in Messianic
Jewry and their impact on Christian practice
Lwendo, Habakuki (MTh), 2000
The significance of the doctrine of retribution in Old Testament Job for pastoral counselling
in Aids
Thurlow, Judy (MTh), 2001
God in context: a comparative study of the images of God in three select local Christian
groups of women
Kapenda, Martin (MTh), 2001
Hermeneutics and culture: a critical appraisal of the impact of the local cultural context upon
the reading of the Bible in the Evangelical Church in Zambia
Gatumu, Albert (MTh; co-supervisor), 2001
Primal world view and the Bible: An African contribution to a hermeneutical method from
the perspective of the primal worldview, with particular reference to the Gikuyu of Kenya
Buckenham, Karen (MA), 2002
Women’s visual art as theology in contemporary South Africa
Meyer, Wilhelm (PhD; co-supervisor), 2002
Reading Mark 4:35-41: a study of student discourses in the School of Theology, the
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
Farisani, Elelwani (PhD), 2002
The use of Ezra-Nehemiah in a quest for a theology of renewal, transformation and
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reconstruction in the (South) African context
Matsepe, Phidian M. (MTh), 2003
The biblical hermeneutics of commuter train passengers in the Vaal area
Nsiku, Edouard Kitoko (PhD), 2003
The feelings of God in Hosea
Katho, Bungishabaku (PhD), 2003
To know and not to know God in Jeremiah
Nadar, Sarojini (PhD), 2003
Womanist and literary perspectives on Esther: resources for social transformation
Magomba, Mote P. (MTh), 2005
Early engagement with the Bible among the Gogo people of Tanzania: historical and
hermeneutical study of ordinary ‘readers’’ transactions with the Bible
W’Ehusha, Lubunga V. (PhD) 2007
Korah and the rejection of Moses’ leadership in Numbers 16-17: An African comparative
interpretation
Gwala, Sibusiso (MTh; R. Nunes as co-supervisor ) 2007
The impact of unemployment on the youth of Pietermaritzburg
Kiambi, Julius Kithinji (MTh) 2008
Redacting socio-economic parables in Luke’s gospel under the postcolonial optic and a
Kenyan application
Gora, Kennedy (MTh) 2009
Postcolonial readings of 1 Kings 21:1-29 in the context of the struggle for land in Zimbabwe,
from colonialism, to liberation, to the present
Moore, Jeffrey T. (PhD) 2011
Theological education in the Lesotho Evangelical Church: A descriptive analysis
Nyirimana, Eraste (PhD) 2011
The tribal dimension in the division of the Kingdom of Israel: A contextual study of 1 Kings
12:-24 from the perspective of the struggle for national unity in Rwanda
Sithole, Nkosinathi (PhD; co-supervisor) 2011
Performance, power and agency: Isaiah Shembe’s hymns and the sacred dance in the Church
of the Nazarites
Konkol, Brian E. (MTh; S. de Gruchy as co-supervisor) 2011
Mission possible? Power, truth-telling and the pursuit of mission as accompaniment
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Reger, Georg T.N. (MTh) 2011
The Song of the Sea: A rhetorical-critical analysis and contextual interpretation of Exodus
15:1-21
McLachlan, Christine (MSoc.Sc, co-supervisor) 2011
Queering gender: an exploration of the subjective experience of the development of a
transgender identity
Volanie, Euodia (MTh) 2012
Reading the book of Hosea in service of life: a paradigm for the prophetic church fifteen
years after a democratic South Africa
Ellison, Dylan (MTh) 2012
The characterisation of Judah in the Joseph narrative: Genesis 37:1-47:27
Zwane, Sithembiso S. (MTh) 2013
A theology of decent work: reflections from casual workers in the NDJ Ethiopian Church in
Zion, in Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal
Carlos, Helder Luis (MTh) 2013
Retrieving elements of an economic ethic from Ezra 3: Ezra’s building project in dialogue
with poverty and economic inequality in Homoine District in Mozambique
Chang, C-H. Wallis (PhD) 2013
A Convocation House (Prrngawan): biblical interpretation and TYCM tribal post-colonial
concerns reading Genesis 2:4b-25 with TYCM ordinary tribal readers
Kasongo, Micheline Kamba (PhD; with P. Bruce as co-supervisor) 2013
Developing a holistic educational programme through Contextual Bible Study with people
with disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: IMAN’ENDA as case study
Landsberg, Charl (MTh) 2014
The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, HIV and the Bible
Phiri, Lilly (MTh) 2014
“Born this way” – A gendered perspective on the intersectionality between same-sex
orientation and the Imago Dei: a case study of men who love other men in Lusaka, Zambia
Beukes, Rosemary (MTh) 2014
A re-reading of 2 Kings 5: in search of a redemptive masculinity
South Africa
Castillo Mora, Carlos David (MTh) 2015
Ridiculing the empire: rhetorical strategy and the critique of the monarchic discourse of
salvation in Genesis 47.13-26
Costa Rica
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Babatunji, Foluso Olugbenga (PhD) 2016
The effect of semitic primal religion on Israelite religion: a pattern for a contextual biblical
interpretation in Nigerian Christianity
Nigeria
Chitsulo, Takuze Saul Gedeon (PhD) 2016
Internal and external imperial dynamics in Habakkuk: a contextual study of the book of
Habakkuk from a Malawi socio-economic and political viewpoint
Malawi
Konkol, Brian Edward (PhD, co-supervisor with Roderick Hewitt) 2016
From anesthetic to advocacy through mission as accompaniment: towards a more effective
response from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s global mission to mechanistic
dehumanization
USA
Scholtz, Roger (PhD) 2016
“Now my eyes have seen you”: re-envisioning Job’s wife in the book of Job
South Africa
Mora Blanco, Karoline (MTh)
The role of biblical interpretation in the construction of sexual identity in Christian Sunday
school material for children: A re-reading of Genesis 3 and Matthew 1.18-25 from a feminist
and queer perspective
Post-Doctoral supervision
Sithole, Nkosinathi (South Africa) 2011-2012
Nyirimana, Eraste (Rwanda) 2012-2013
W’Ehusha, Lubunga V. (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 2012-2014
Chakravarty, K. Gandhar (Canada) 2015
June Dickie (South Africa) 2017-2018
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