Review of An African Background to the Old Testament By Isaac Boaheng

Review of An African Background to the Old Testament By Isaac Boaheng

Vusimuzi Goodman Nkuna

Issue: Vol.8 No.2 February 2022 Issue Article 2 pp.22-26
DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.2022822 | Published online 2nd February 2022.
© 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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INTRODUCTION

This paper presents a critical review of the book titled An African Background to the Old Testament written by Rev. Dr. Isaac Boaheng. The purpose of this review is to assess how this book has achieved its objective of enhancing African readers’ contextual reading of the Old Testament(OT). From my perspective as a graduate student in Practical Theology, I am of the opinion that the book has achieved this purpose. Therefore, this review serves to sustain this assertion. The review starts by presenting the book’s overview commencing from the Foreword and ending with Chapter 7. I then conclude the review with a brief evaluation of the extent to which the book has achieved its stated and implied goal(s) followed by some recommendations.

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Nkuna Vusimuzi G., “Comparative Analysis of the State of Religious Pluralism between Intertestamental Palestine and Post-Apartheid South Africa,” E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 2, no.12 (2021): 224-233. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20212123

AUTHOR(S)

Vusimuzi Nkuna received his MTh with distinction from North-West University, South Africa. He also holds an MBA from the University of South Africa and a BA Social Work from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. He is at the foundational stage of his studies towards a PhD in Theology at the South African Theological Seminary. He has been a mentor at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria, South Africa since 2020. His research interests include pastoral care, the occult in Africa and freedom of religion.

TO CITE ARTICLE

Nkuna V.G., “Review of An African Background to the Old Testament By Isaac Boaheng,” E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 8 no.2 (2022): 22-26. https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.2022822