Re-reading 1 Kings 21:1-16 Between Community-based Activism and University-based Pedagogy

Biblical studies in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa has been partially constituted by the community-based activism of the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research over a period of more than thirty years. This essay refle...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b9870583ee214358af2bb02f75d1dd462021-11-18T14:47:02ZRe-reading 1 Kings 21:1-16 Between Community-based Activism and University-based Pedagogy2633-069510.17613/tnm7-6x32https://doaj.org/article/b9870583ee214358af2bb02f75d1dd462020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:32448/CONTENT/10-west-zwane-re-reading-1-kings.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695Biblical studies in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa has been partially constituted by the community-based activism of the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research over a period of more than thirty years. This essay reflects on a particular series of contrapuntal movements in which 1 Kings 21:1-16 has been interpreted within this interface of community-based activism and formal academic pedagogy, moving between Contextual Bible Study workshops with unemployed African youth and classroom-based learning with African undergraduate and postgraduate students. We give particular attention in this essay to how interpretive space is reconstituted through this intentional collaboration.Gerald O. WestSithembiso ZwaneUniversity of Sheffieldarticlecontextual bible study1 kings 21landgenderunemploymentThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 179-207 (2020)
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Re-reading 1 Kings 21:1-16 Between Community-based Activism and University-based Pedagogy
description Biblical studies in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa has been partially constituted by the community-based activism of the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research over a period of more than thirty years. This essay reflects on a particular series of contrapuntal movements in which 1 Kings 21:1-16 has been interpreted within this interface of community-based activism and formal academic pedagogy, moving between Contextual Bible Study workshops with unemployed African youth and classroom-based learning with African undergraduate and postgraduate students. We give particular attention in this essay to how interpretive space is reconstituted through this intentional collaboration.
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