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The Pianist's Dictionary (review)

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, PERFORMERS, AND PERFORMANCE The Pianist's Dictionary. By Maurice Hinson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. [x, 221 p. ISBN 0-253-344050-0. $39.95.] Bibliography. For more than 30 years industrious Maurice Hinson, professor of music at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has produced a steady stream of reference dealing with all aspects of classical piano literature. All have appeared under imprint of Indiana University Press. Some, notably his 1972 Guide to Pianist's Repertoire, have undergone one or more revisions or expansions. Hinson's latest contribution is attempt to compile a dictionary of names, terms, and titles pertaining to entire field of pianism, embracing composers, compositions, performers, teachers, publishers, and piano makers. This is information I have worked on while teaching piano for almost 60 years, Hinson states in his preface. (Disclosure: my name is included, once, in a list of former pupils of Hinson's colleague Margaret Saunders Ott.) However laudable Hinson's aims may be, published results quickly eliminate this volume from serious consideration. Its 220 pages, lacking illustrations and with only six small musical examples (and at a rather exorbitant hardcover price of $39.95), contain a nearly unbelievable profusion of factual errors, misspellings, and misleading statements-more, in fact, than I have ever encountered in a reference book. For example, a sonata, according to Hinson, contains two to five contrasting movements (despite his references elsewhere to some of numerous one-movement piano sonatas). The defining characteristic of Zortzico, unmentioned by Hinson, is quintuple meter. Curiously, a definition is provided for natural, but none for sharp, flat, or accidental. Any reader seeking meaning of atonality will be told, incorrectly, that it is an organizing harmonic system. Habanera and Seguidilla are defined, in both cases, with unspecific references to the aria from Bizet's Carmen. When we turn to names of pianists, errors begin to proliferate. Ania Dorfmann becomes Dorfman, and her teacher Isidor Philipp's first name is misspelled Isidore. Philipp is said to have written books on instrument (not so), but no mention is made of his famous, nearly countless technical exercises. Vladimir Horowitz's year of birth (1903) is erroneously given as 1904, while Emil Sauer was really born in 1862, not 1863, and Artur Schnabel was born in 1882, not 1881. The year of death for Frederic Lamond is 1948, not 1945. Wanda Landowska was born in 1879, not 1877. A reference to Christian Ortiz (p. 182) should be to Cristina Ortiz. On page 202, Zadel Sokolovsky should be Skolovsky. The onearmed pianist Paul Wittgenstein was brother, not cousin, of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In four separate references, Hinson perpetuates frequent misspelling of Leon Fleisher's last name as Fleischer. The contemporary composer Lowell Liebermann has become Liebeman. The teacher of Daniel Pollack was Ethel Leginska, not Leginsky, and Hinson's entry for latter (spelled correctly!) should have mentioned that her name was originally Liggins. Ossip Gabrilowitsch's first name is given here as Osspi. The wife of pianist Eugene List was Carroll Glenn, not Glen. Rudolf Serkin (born 1903) is described as a Czech pianist, but Czechoslovakia did not exist then; Serkin was born in a German-speaking region of Bohemia. The choices of front-rank pianists given brief, two- or three-sentence, biographical sketches seem arbitrary at best. Many famous performers are represented, but a few of significant names excluded are Simon Barere, Gina Bachauer, Abram Chasins, Francis Plante, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Harriet Cohen, Tamas Vasary, Emanuel Ax, Sergio Fiorentino, Moura Lympany, Jorg Demus, Georges Cziffra, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Julius Katchen, Robert Levin, Samuel Feinberg, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Maria Yudina, Geza Anda, and Stephen Hough. …

Recent Doctoral Dissertations in Church and State

Al-Sultan, Ali M., Law of Saudi Arabia: God's Law Modifying the Modem Era. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1987. Apter, Andrew Herman, Rituals of Power: The Politics of Orisa Worship in Yoruba Society. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1987. 315pp. Baradar, Mariam, Historical Study of Development of Education in Iran Between 1963 and 1978. Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, 1987. 299pp. Barnette, Helen Poarch, Implications of Horace Mann's Educational Philosophy and Praxis in Relation to 'Secular Humanism' in Public Schools. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY, 1987. 233pp. Bartholomew, Alfred Clinton, An Interpretation of the Evangelical and Reformed Church in a Changing American Society. Drew University, Madison, NJ, 1950. 246pp. Bovee, David Steven, Church and the Land: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and American Society, 1923-1985. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1986. 550pp. Bowleg, Etienne Everette Edison, Influence of the Oxford Movement Upon the Church of England in the Province of the West Indies, 1850-1900. McGill University, Canada, 1987. Briggs, Elizabeth, Society, and Politics, and the Liber Vitae of Durham, (Volumes I and II). University of Leeds, United Kingdom, 1987. 625pp. Buettner, Lanny Steven, Science, Religion, and Ethics in the Writings of Joseph Needham. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1987.

The Review & Expositor: A Century of Engagement and Encouragement

W. LOYD ALLEN traces the one-hundred-year history of R & E in this introductory article of the Centennial Issue. During its early years (1904–1919), a veritable roll call of theological scholars were involved in the production of the journal—E.Y. Mullins, John R. Sampey, A.T. Robertson, among others. From 1920–1942, W.O. Carver served as managing editor and introduced many innovations to the journal. Carver was followed, from 1942–1982, by Ellis Fuller, Duke McCall, J.J. Owens, Frank Stagg, and E. Glenn Hinson. Allen analyses in detail the subject matters addressed in articles and issues during these years. The years 1982–1995 were fraught with controversy in Baptist life, but the journal thrived under the management of R. Alan Culpepper, Bill J. Leonard, and Charles Scalise. In 1990, the journal distanced itself from direct control by The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and in 1995, it came under the guidance of an editorial board comprised of representatives of a consortium of Baptist theological institutions. In 2004, the journal celebrates its 100th birthday, ready to move ahead into the challenges of the 21st century.

The Progression of Grace: A Re-Reading of Pilgrim's Progress

This is a very personal article about the evolution of my learning affair with John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. On first meeting as a seventeen year old fresh out of the Missouri Ozarks I got nowhere with this classic. Curiously help came not from a fellow Baptist pilgrim but from Thomas Merton. A visit to the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1960 inspired me to teach a course in Classics of Christian Devotion at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Preparing to teach The Pilgrim's Progress led me to Bunyan's spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, where I was able to discover the rich Puritan stream of spirituality which sprang from the catholic mainstream and flowed into the Bunyan story. In the meantime, concurrent loss of hearing and loss of voice early in my teaching career enabled me to identify with Bunyan's experience of grace as a vulnerable God's gift of Godself in human vulnerability in ways never possible simply as a reader of classics.

God's Call in Later Life: A Theological Reflection on Aging

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsBeth Jackson-JordanBeth Jackson-Jordan serves as Chaplain and Pastoral Care Supervisor at St. Joseph of the Pines, Southern Pines, NC. A member of the APC Board of Directors, APC Board Certified Chaplain, and ACPE Supervisor, she received her M. Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Wayne Flynt. <italic>Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie</italic>. (Religion and American Culture.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1998. Pp. xxi, 731. $29.95

Wayne Flynt. Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie. (Religion and American Culture.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1998. Pp. xxi, 731. $29.95 Get access Flynt Wayne. Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie. (Religion and American Culture.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1998. Pp. xxi, 731. $29.95. Gregory A. Wills Gregory A. Wills Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 105, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.1.218 Published: 01 February 2000

When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered (review)

Hebrew Studies 41 (2000) 313 Reviews In conclusion, this book provides an excellent summary of insights into different aspects of our knowledge of Jerusalem. However, it falls considerably short of the jacket's claim "to portray the full significance of Jerusalem in the First Temple period." Chapters on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Minor Prophets would have been needed to move toward that coverage. But it does significantly add to the availability of convenient sources of knowledge, especially in the articles on Jerusalem in Chronicles and Zion in Ezekiel. John D. W. Watts Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, KY 40280 711532221@compuserve.com WHEN ASENETH MET JOSEPH: A LATE ANTIQUE TALE OF THE BmLICAL PATRIARCH AND HIS EGYPTIAN WIFE, RECONSIDERED. By Ross Shepard Kraemer. pp. xviii + 365. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. Cloth, $60.00. One of the more intriguing works of ancient religious fiction is the tale of the biblical patriarch Joseph and his wife Aseneth, based on the report of Oen 41:37-52. The most important witnesses to the tale, usually entitled Joseph and Aseneth, are Greek manuscripts, the earliest of which dates to the tenth century. Versions also exist in Syriac, Armenian, Rumanian, and modem Greek. The Greek manuscripts fall into two sets or recensions, one of which contains a much longer version of the story. The plot of this novella centers on the relationship between Joseph, in his capacity as vice-regent of Egypt, and the chaste virgin Aseneth, daughter of the high priest of Heliopolis. Although their initial encounter is not promising, since Aseneth spums men, they eventually do become man and wife, but only after Aseneth repents of her idolatry and has an encounter with an angelic visitor who feeds her with heavenly food. She goes on to bear Joseph his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh (Gen 46:20), and survives a plot against her by the son of Pharaoh, aided and abetted by her brothersin -law, Naphtali and Asher. The tale ends with the family feud resolved and Joseph sitting happily on the throne of Egypt. The general scholarly consensus about this novel holds it to be a creation of Greek-speaking Jews of the late second Temple, that is, Hellenistic or early Roman period, dealing perhaps with issues of proselytism and relations between Judaism and the wider world. The consensus also holds the Hebrew Studies 41 (2000) 314 Reviews longer version attested in the Greek manuscripts to be the more original and the shorter to be simply an abridgment. Professor Kraemer's extremely learned and lively study calls some elements of the consensus into question. Kraemer begins with a literary analysis of the two Greek recensions and the relationships between them. Her position revives the stance of the original editor of the Greek text, Marc Philonenko, who held that the shorter recension was the more original. Kraemer convincingly shows how the tale as a whole, and this recension in particular, builds on the data of scripture and fills in blanks left by the scriptural account. She further argues persuasively that the longer version, whose position of prominence was defended by Christoph Burchard, expands and supplements the tale in the shorter version, with even greater attention to scriptural parallels. With the relationship between the recensions established, Kraemer offers an insightful commentary on the text that brings the reader through the world of late antique religion in all of its complexity. Thus, the initial encounter between Aseneth and Joseph, who arrives in Heliopolis on a quadriga decked out in brilliant garb, evokes widespread late antique solar imagery, attested in media from coins to synagogue mosaics. Similarly, the intriguing encounter between Aseneth and the angel contains elements reminiscent of magical adjurations of heavenly helpers attested in Greek, Coptic, and Hebrew (the Sepher Ha-Razim) compilations from late antiquity. The story also evokes Greek philosophical speculation associated with Neo-Platonism and Jewish mystical literature, especially Hekba10t texts. the study of which has made much progress in recent years. The points of similarity with each of these cultural spheres are complex, and Kraemer's treatment is carefully nuanced. The congruence of the piety and the symbolism of the text thus points for Kraemer to a...

Beyond the Walls: Teaching Science and Religion at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Beyond the Walls: Teaching Science and Religion at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

One Letter Too Many from Mastercard

Edwin Charles Dargan was the editorial secretary from 1917 to 1927 of what is now LifeWay Christian Resources, whose headquarters are in Nashville, TN. (Before coming to Nashville, Dargan was a local church pastor in Macon, GA and Charleston, SC, among other places. Then, he was a professor from 1892 to 1907 at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.) Dargan is the namesake of the organization's library.

“Once There Was a Camelot”: Women Doctoral Graduates of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982-1992, Talk about the Seminary, the Fundamentalist Takeover, and Their Lives since SBTS

“Once There Was a Camelot”: Women Doctoral Graduates of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982-1992, Talk about the Seminary, the Fundamentalist Takeover, and Their Lives since SBTS

Apologizing for God: Apologetic Preaching to a Postmodern World

Recorded in Heeren Recital Hall, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on January 31, 1996.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Civil Rights Movement: The Visit of Martin Luther King, Jr., Part Two

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Civil Rights Movement: The Visit of Martin Luther King, Jr., Part Two

The Sub Loco Notes in the Torah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (review)

Hebrew Studies 37 (1996) 156 Reviews of the scribes has made it into a lie?"). In Isa 10:1 we find the following complaint: "Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes." These passages seem to reflect a "realist" conception that laws were nonnally made, not by divine communication or some idealistic and immutable principle, but by rulers pursuing their own mutable interests. Presumably, these biblical authors would like to refonn the laws and the principles in question. Although the responses to Westbrook seem decisive, this book will not be the last word on the debate. However, this is an important collection of essays which should be read by all those interested in current issues in biblical and cuneifonn law. Heclor Avalos Iowa Slale University Ames, IA 50011 THE SUB LOCO NOTES IN THE TORAH OF BIBLIA HEBRAICA STUTTGARTENSIA. By Daniel S. Mynatt. BIBAL Dissertation Series 2. Pp. x + 278. N. Richland Hills, TX: BIBAL Press, 1994. In editing the masora of the Leningrad codex for the publication of the BHS, Gerard Weil had provided the nomenclature sub loco ("in the/this place") for several types of problematic notes encountered in the Masora parva. He had intended to provide a critical analysis of these notes in the third volume of the Massorah Gedolah, but he died after publishing only one volume. Daniel Mynatt, who presently serves as Assistant Professor of Religion at Anderson College in Anderson, South Carolina, has diligently provided a user-friendly volume containing a textual analysis of each of the 297 sub loco notes in the Torah of the BHS. The current work is a revision of his 1992 doctoral dissertation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In the introduction, the author provides methodological considerations necessary to interpreting the data. The initial step was to compare the sub loco note in the Masora parva of the Leningrad codex with that of BHS, with clarification of legibility from Kittel's Biblia Hebraica 3 where necessary . Analysis is made ofWeil's alterations based on the sub loco notes, and then each is discussed "within the context of its Mp text feature:' Mynatt notes a number of the organizational problems faced by the interpreter of the masoretic apparatus, such as the general rule that the Masora magna list Hebrew Studies 37 (1996) 157 Reviews numbers are cited only once per chapter on a page. Likewise, in contra texturn situations where the Masorah parva differs from the text of the Leningrad codex (in which case Weil had corrected the Masorah parva note), Mynatt evaluates each on the basis of its own merit. He also rightly notes the variant orthographic and notation traditions among the masoretic schools regarding the plene/defective readings. Also included are variations from other Hebrew Bibles, such as the Second Rabbinic Bible, in his discussion of the sub loco notes. Chapter Two contains a "Catalog of Entries" of all 297 sub loco notes with a extensive discussion of each entry. The fonnat of each entry is: (1) Statement of Location-note number according to the order found in the biblical text, the biblical citation, and the index number for the Masorah parva; (2) Evidence for Analysis-the text of BHS, the Masorah parva note of BHS with translation and explanation of the symbols utilized, as well as the Masorah parva of the Leningrad codex with translation and explanation; and (3) Discussion of the Masorah parva of both texts, including a listing of other occurrences of the same tenn, phrase, spelling, etc. The value of Mynatt's reference work is in the text-critical approach to understanding the variations and explanatory notes referenced in the Masorah parva. Corrections and additions are made by the author to Weil or the Masorah parva of either text where applicable. Mynatt attempts to trace the history of the variant in order to provide a possible explanation for the given reference. The Masorah parva of the Aleppo codex is provided at the bottom of the entry if such is extant. In Chapter Three, "Classification of Errors in the Sub Loco Notes," Mynatt created a system of categorizing the types of errors "based on the circumstances which caused the errors" (p. 223). Two broad...

The Function of the Niphʿal in Biblical Hebrew in Relationship to Other Passive-Reflexive Verbal Stems and to the Puʿal and Hophʿal in Particular (review)

Hebrew Studies 35 (1994) 217 Reviews and rhyme in Alterman's work. (In this regard it is appropriate to note Arnold Band's recent paper-yet unpublished-on semantic rhyme and his departure from Shavit's emphasis.) One of my first doctoral assignments in 1965 was to assess the positions of several critics (two of them in this collection) regarding the Holocaust specificity of themes in "Simhat 'Ani'im." It was actually my first exposure to Dan Miron's emphasis on the continuity between "Kokhavim baHutz" and "Simhat 'Ani'im" (see p. 98 of this volume). At the time I argued that-at least from the thematic point of view-the earlier and the later Alterman had too much in common to permit us to read the later cycle through the lens of the Holocaust. I now see that the problem is more complex, and more seasoned readers should welcome the chance to look at this and related questions through all the lenses provided by a book such as this. There is a variety of formalistic questions attached to this question, even though we must continue to insist that aesthetic issues are the proper concern of poetry criticism. The debate goes on through new frames like "New Historicism," and the public concerns with cultural desiderata continue to harass formalists. Genre concerns and social utility will tug at students for as long as literature will be taught. Anthologies such as this one are helpful mirrors of all these kinds of struggle. This particular anthology is helpful both in this way and as a series ofessays that recall a founder of modem Hebrew aesthetics. William Cutter Hebrew Union College Los Angeles, CA 90004 THE FUNCTION OF THE NIPHcAL IN BIBLICAL HEBREW IN RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER PASSIVE-REFLEXIVE VERBAL STEMS AND TO THE PucAL AND HOPlfAL IN PARTICULAR. By P. A. Siebesma. Studia Semitica Neerlandica 28. Pp. ix + 207. Assen, the Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1991. Paper. Siebesma's doctoral dissertation, first published in Dutch in 1988, has now been made available in an excellent English translation. Since from the beginning of this century only two comprehensive studies on Hebrew verbal stems have been published, this detailed study of the function of the niph(al takes on added significance. Hebrew Studies 35 (1994) 218 Reviews The first of the earlier publications was an article by M. Lambert, "L'emploi du Niph'al en hebreu," published in 1900 (REJ 41, pp. 196-214). Siebesma's main interest, however, is with a 1968 publication by the Swiss Hebrew scholar Ernst Jenni, Das hebriiische Pi'ei, a study of the pileI stem in 'Biblical Hebrew. Siebesma acknowledges that he chose Jenni's work as his starting point since the latter's approach to the study of other Hebrew verbal stems had been influenced by his views on the pileI. Siebesma does not always agree with Jenni's approach, particularly his assumption that verbal stems formed a system within which each stem had a clearly defined semantic function and meaning distinct from that of others. Siebesma takes a different view of the interrelation of the various verbal stems and states as the purpose of his dissertation "the description and study of the ni. in relation to the other 'passive' verbal stems (pass. qal, pu., ho., and hitp.)" (p. 32). Siebesma treats his subject in four lengthy chapters plus a very brief chapter of summary and conclusions. The first chapter offers a survey of the literature on verbal stems in Biblical Hebrew from the last century and a half. Throughout this and subsequent chapters, Siebesma draws heavily from four principal sources. The first is the grammar of W. Gesenius, who is recognized as "the founding father of Hebrew linguistics" (p. 2). The second is the previously referenced work of E. Jenni on the pi'el stem. The third is the unpublished Ph.D. dissertation of A. F. Bean, A Phenomenological Study of the Hithpa'el Verbal Stem in the Hebrew Old Testament (Louisville, Kentucky: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1976). The fourth source is that published by R. J. Williams, "The Passive Qal Theme in Hebrew," in Essays on the Ancient Semitic World (Toronto, 1970). The second chapter offers...

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Civil Rights Movement: From 1859–1952. Part One

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Civil Rights Movement: From 1859–1952. Part One

The pianist's guide to transcriptions, arrangements, and paraphrases

Now in paperback!The Pianist's Guide to Transcrip-tions, Arrange-ments, and Paraphrases Maurice HinsonLists transcriptions for piano from orchestral and other compositions, more than 2,000 works in all.... a thorough summary of an important body of music written by a musician of extraordinary, perhaps unrivaled knowledge of the repertory. --American Music TeacherSome of the most celebrated composers--Beethoven, Brahms, Busoni, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel--prepared piano transcriptions of some of their own works, as well as those of other composers. Maurice Hinson has selected, from the myriads of transcriptions now in existence, more than 2,000 such works of real musical worth.The Pianist's Guide to Transcriptions, Arrangements, and Paraphrases describes pieces for solo piano, duet, and two pianos, as well as outstanding transcriptions for one hand. Most of them are written for piano(s) alone, but a considerable number are scored for piano(s) and a small instrumental ensemble or a full orchestra. Thanks to the organization of this volume, the user can see at a glance the various transcriptions that have been made of a particular composition (say, a Schubert song) and also become aware of the breadth of a particular transcriber's output (as in the case of the prodigiously prolific Liszt).Maurice Hinson, Senior Professor Emeritus of Piano at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was founding editor of the Journal of the American Liszt Society and is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music. He is known for his many articles, videos, and lecture recitals, especially those on early American piano music. He is author of several books on piano literature, including the indispensable Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire, 3rd edition (Indiana University Press).March 2001 (cloth 1981)192 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 paper 0-253-21456-4 $19.95 s

Heritage Creating Hope: The Pilgrimage of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Heritage Creating Hope: The Pilgrimage of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

The Politics of Abortion: A Study of Community Conflict in Public Policy Making. By Raymond Tatalovich and Byron W. Daynes. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1981. 248 pp. n.p.

Journal Article The Politics of Abortion: A Study of Community Conflict in Public Policy Making. By Raymond Tatalovich and Byron W. Daynes. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1981. 248 pp. n.p. Get access Paul D. Simmons Paul D. Simmons Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 26, Issue 1, Winter 1984, Pages 121–122, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/26.1.121 Published: 01 January 1984

The Vernon Anderson Papers

The papers in this collection were generated by Rev. Vernon Anderson, a Presbyterian missionary who served in the Belgian Congo. Born in Illinois in 1896, Anderson was raised in Alabama where he attended the Alabama Presbyterian College. After graduation he continued his studies at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, from which he received his B.D. degree in 1920. Anderson joined the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and assumed a post with that mission in the Kasai Province in 1921. The earliest Presbyterian missionaries to work in the Congo had established a station at Luebo in 1891. Their missionary efforts were concentrated among the Bena Lulua of the Lulua river valley. Anderson, however, was sent to the station of Bibanga situated near the Lubilashi river in the area southeast of Luebo. Bibanga lay within the broad area between Lake Tanganyika and the Kasai river in which the Luba live. The Baluba have been separted into two groups--the Baluba-kasai and the Baluba-katanga--by one present-day scholar. The Baluba-lubilashi are a subgroup of the Baluba-kasai.Anderson was one of the first missionaries to work among the Baluba-lubilashi, from 1921 to 1946. In addition to his duties as a missionary he spent a considerable amount of time studying Luba society, in part through the collection of primary data from informants. From this material he wrote a Ph.D. dissertation entitled Witchcraft in Africa: A Missionary Problem and received his degree in 1942 from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Another project to engage his scholarly interest in the Luba was the revision of an early Tshiluba-English dictionary.

THE EVANGELICAL CONCERN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsFindley B. EdgeDr. Edge is the Basil Manly, Jr. Professor of Religious Education at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His most recent book is The Greening of the Church.