‘Wo papa fie abosom no ɛtaataa wo’– Pursued by the Elohim (gods) of your Father’s house
Roland Owusu-Ansah 
& Jonathan E.T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor
Issue: Vol.6 No.4 June 2024 Article 1 pp. 47-53
DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/motbit.2024641 | Published online 2nd August, 2024
© 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Biblical Narrative, Biblical Narrator, Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics, Elohim, Onyankopon, abosom
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Roland Owusu-Ansah holds a doctorate (in Religion and Human Values) from the University of Cape Coast. He is an ordained minister of Harvest Chapel International and a faculty member of the Harvest School of Ministry, Accra Ghana.
Jonathan Edward Tetteh Kuwornu-Adjaottor, PhD, Associate Professor of New Testament and Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics, Department of Religious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana.
Owusu-Ansah, Roland, Jonathan E.T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor. “‘Wo papa fie abosom no ɛtaataa wo’- Pursued by the Elohim (gods) of your Father’s house,” Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology 6, no.3(2024):47-53. https://doi.org/10.38159/motbit.2024641
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