Abraham as Spiritual Ancestor
A Postcolonial Zimbabwean Reading of Romans 4
Biographical note
Israel Kamudzandu, Ph.D. 2007 in New Testament Biblical Interpretation, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, is an Assistant Professor of New Testament at Saint Paul School of Theology since January, 2008.
Readership
This book is conversant with the New Testament contextualized hermeneutics and is written for both Western academia and Christian readers as well as postcolonial Christians South of the Sahara.
Table of contents
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: The Ancestor in Greco – Roman Culture: The Case of Aeneas
CHAPTER TWO: Abraham in Hellenistic – Jewish Context
CHAPTER THREE: The Shona Ancestral Cosmology
CHAPTER FOUR: Ancestry and Descendancy in Romans
CONCLUSION: An Integrative Cross – Cultural Hermeneutic: Implications and Limitations
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: The Ancestor in Greco – Roman Culture: The Case of Aeneas
CHAPTER TWO: Abraham in Hellenistic – Jewish Context
CHAPTER THREE: The Shona Ancestral Cosmology
CHAPTER FOUR: Ancestry and Descendancy in Romans
CONCLUSION: An Integrative Cross – Cultural Hermeneutic: Implications and Limitations
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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