Abstract
A powerful voice from the Western part of the continent of Africa! A voice that could be heard not only through the presence of its owner at our annual Old Testament Society of South Africa (OTSSA) meetings but also more importantly, for the purpose of this introduction, in several issues of Old Testament Essays (OTE), one of our prestigious journals locally and continentally. It is the journal that now contains the ululations (read: Festschrift) to honour this voice. This is the voice of none other than one of our very own Nigerian African Old Testament scholar, Professor David Tuesday Adamo. He is one of the key scholars who have made important contributions to the field of African Biblical Hermeneutics. Adamo's refreshing voice, given the American and Eurocentric training and orientation which have shaped and continue to shape biblical scholarship on the African continent, has been loud and clear. Adamo's persuasion that there is African presence in the Christian Scriptures, that is, both in the Hebrew Bible and in the Second Testament, has been felt, as will also become evident from the essays contained in this special issue and his curriculum vitae as well as in his numerous research publications including his books and journal articles.
Highlights
This is the voice of none other than one of our very own Nigerian African Old Testament scholar, Professor David Tuesday Adamo
Adamo’s persuasion that there is African presence in the Christian Scriptures, that is, both in the Hebrew Bible and in the Second Testament, has been felt, as will become evident from the essays contained in this special issue and his curriculum vitae as well as in his numerous research publications including his books and journal articles
The honouree insists that there is an African presence in the Christian Scriptures
Summary
Hulisani Ramantswana reviews Adamo’s contributions from 2003 to date, Adamo’s distinctive readings of the Old Testament that were published by Old Testament Essays. Prof Adamo has been one of the loyal African contributors to OTE and is the first black African Old Testament scholar in Africa to be honoured in this way through the journal. Knut Holter investigates Nigerian biblical studies by relating African interpretive concerns to Western scholarly traditions with David T. Adamo’s academic publications as the academic lens
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