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A Maasai Encounter with the Bible: Nomadic Lifestyle as a Hermeneutic Question
Contributor(s): Holter, Knut (Other), Nkesela, Zephania Shila (Author)
ISBN: 1433173689     ISBN-13: 9781433173684
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
OUR PRICE:   $108.85  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - History
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General
Dewey: 276.762
LCCN: 2020000331
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 228 pages
 
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This book is a critical analysis of how Maasai informants read some selected Old Testament texts that are thought to have an appeal to people with semi/nomadic ways of life. The Maasai is a Nilotic ethnic group of semi/nomadic pastoralists living in the northern Tanzania, and southern Kenya, East Africa. The book focuses on the parallels between the Maasai and biblical concepts of nomadic lifestyle. On the one hand, the semi/nomadic heritage of the Maasai faces severe cultural and political difficulties when encountering East African modern ways of life. On the other, the ancient Israel actually experienced the opposite, seeing a strengthening of semi/nomadic ways of life. Therefore, the book demonstrates the potentials of the supposed parallels between the two by allowing the experiences of the ancient Israel to contribute to strengthen the semi/nomadic ways of life, a key aspect of traditional Maasai values into the contemporary East African context.