Introduction (Hans de Wit, Hans Snoek and Gerald West) -- PART ONE THE DEBATE: AN HERMENEUTICAL OVERVIEW -- Chapter One Exegesis and Contextuality: Happy Marriage, Divorce or Living (Apart) Together? (Hans de Wit) -- Being "Apart" and "Together" at the Same Time? (A Response by Makhosazana K. Nzimande) -- Chapter Two Interrogating the Comparative Paradigm in African Biblical Scholarship (Gerald West) -- Is there More Truth in this Picture? (A Response by Klaas Spronk) -- Chapter Three Does a Dialogue between Africa and Europe Make Sense? (Knut Holter) -- Creating a Liminal Space of Communality (A Response by Louis Jonker) -- Chapter Four Key Concepts in the Dialogue between African and European Biblical Scholars (Hans Snoek) -- PART TWO METHODOLOGICAL INSIGHTS -- Chapter Five Living in Different Worlds Simultaneously Or: A Plea for Contextual Integrity (Louis Jonker) -- Doing Justice to the Text (A Response by Reinoud Oosting) -- Chapter Six The Role of 'The Other' in the Reading of the Bible: Towards a New Roadmap for Bible Reading in the Western World (Kune Biezeveld) -- Confrontation with the African 'Other' (A Response by Jurie Le Roux) -- Chapter Seven Collaborative and Interactive Hermeneutics in Africa: Giving Dialogical Privilege in Biblical Interpretation (Eric Anum) -- Sitting Humbly at the Feet of the Elders (A Response by Gerrit van Ek) -- Chapter Eight Sanctioning Samson: Do Old Testament Stories about Violence Make Sense Today? Some Answers from the Perspective of Redaction Criticism and History of Research (Klaas Spronk) -- An Unending Process (A Response by Frances Klopper) -- Chapter Nine Quo Vadis, Feminist Scholarship? Refl ections from the Threshold between African and European Biblical Exegesis (Frances Klopper) -- No Method is a Guarantee for Any Outcome (A Response by Anne Marijke Spijkerboer).

PART THREE EXEGESIS AND CONTEXT -- Chapter Ten Jeremiah 32: A Future and its History- Actualisation in Writing and Reading (Eep Talstra and Reinoud Oosting) -- Contesting Exegesis (A Response by Gerald West) -- Chapter Eleven Reconfi guring Jezebel: A Postcolonial Imbokodo Reading of the Story of Naboth's Vineyard (I Kings 21:1-16) (Makhosazana K. Nzimande) -- Interpretation and Social Transformation (A Response by Hans de Wit) -- Chapter Twelve Unmasking the Seven Veils: From Narrative Plot to Transformative Power in Biblical Hermeneutics (Gerrit van Ek) -- A 'Seeing' that Involves Transformation (A Response by Paul B. Decock) -- Chapter Thirteen Reading the Bible Amidst the HIV and AIDS Pandemic in Botswana (Mmapula Lefa) -- Why for Naaman and this Woman, and Not for Me? (A Response by Kune Biezeveld) -- Chapter Fourteen Africa and the Future of our Scholarly Past (Jurie H. Le Roux) -- Exegetes are Translators (A Response by Rainer Kessler) -- PART FOUR HERMENEUTICS AND CONTEXT -- Chapter Fifteen Can the Church Fathers Help us to Develop a Better Approach to the Actualisation of Scripture? (Paul B. Decock) -- Seeking the Balance between Exegesis and Actualisation (A Response by Hans Snoek) -- Chapter Sixteen Isaac A. Motaung: Conversion and Biblical Appropriation in Sesotho (Maarman Samuel Tshehla) -- Fascination and Challenge (A Response by Knut Holter) -- Chapter Seventeen African and European Relations at the Well: Intercultural Reading of the Bible Through Visual Art (Anne Marijke Spijkerboer) -- Of Art and It's Reception (A Response by Mmapula Lefa) -- Chapter Eighteen Biblical Hermeneutics, Actualisation and Marginality in the New South Africa (Jeremy Punt) -- A Flower Without Protection (A Response by Hans Snoek) -- Evaluation Dialogue and Interpretative Power (Knut Holter) -- List of Contributors -- Index.