Situating “Biblical Studies” within “Biblical Studies” [reviewing Mbuvi, Andrew Mũtũa. African Biblical Studies: Unmasking Embedded Racism and Colonialism in Biblical Studies]

Abstract

What a pleasure to read a book in which I as an African biblical scholar could revel so completely! Andrew Mbuvi has a written a book about us and for us, within which we are invited to participate as conversation partners. Others, I would hope, would read this book as well, carefully, and completely. Indeed, it would make a superb textbook in a Biblical Studies classroom anywhere in the world, both introducing and analysing African Biblical Studies but also requiring scholars and students elsewhere to interrogate the version of Biblical Studies to which they have been subjected