Musa Wenkosi Dube

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Musa Wenkosi Dube-Thembo-Ekwawa (born July 28, 1964 in Chadibe Borolong, Botswana ) is professor of New Testament exegesis at the University of Botswana in Gaborone . Her research focus is feminist-postcolonial exegesis, especially Bible reading in the context of HIV / AIDS . She is a member of the Methodist Church and ecumenically oriented in her theology. Dube is considered a leading African New Testament scholar and a representative of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians .

Life

Musa W. Dube is the seventh child of the Agnes Tafa couple, who immigrated to Botswana from Zimbabwe in the 1950s and settled in the Borolong region. She studied theology / religious studies at the University of Botswana as well as environmental studies at the same time; in both courses she achieved a master's degree. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 1997 with a thesis on post-colonial feminist interpretation of the Bible. Since 2003 she has held a chair in New Testament Exegesis at the University of Botswana, and since 2004 she has also been Assistant Professor of Theology at Scripps College , Claremont. In 2002/2003 she was theological advisor to the WCC.

In 2010, Musa W. Dube was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , whereupon Dube spent a research stay at the Chair of New Testament Studies at the University of Bamberg (Prof. Joachim Kügler ). In 2017 Dube received the Gutenberg Teaching Award from the University of Mainz .

The Emory University announced in May 2020 that Musa W. Dube from autumn 2021 a professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology will take over.

Teaching

Dube refers to the postcolonial theory as it was developed by Edward Said for literary studies. Insofar as the Bible is literature, it can be read post-colonial.

Dube is committed to a Christian response to the HIV epidemic in Africa. In the article Preaching to the Converted: Unsettling the Christian Church (2001) she pointed out how the churches in Africa participated in the stigmatization and exclusion of infected people. Dube was a leader in the World Council of Churches in Africa (EHAIA) HIV / AIDS initiative . According to Dube, discrimination against women is a major reason for the proliferation of the epidemic.

Publications (selection)

  • Post-colonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible . Chalice Press, Atlanta 2000.
  • Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible. SBL, Atlanta 2001.
  • Grant Me Justice: HIV / AIDS and Gender Readings of the Bible. Orbis, Maryknoll NY 2005.
  • with Jeffrey Staley: John and the Postcolonialism. Travel, Space and Power . Sheffield Academic, Sheffield 2002.
  • with Gerald West: The Bible in Africa: Translations, Trajectories and Trends. Brill, Leiden 1999.
  • Towards a post-colonial feminist interpretation of the Bible . In: Semeia 78 (1997), pp. 11-26.

literature

  • Stephanie Feder: New Perspectives from Women. Exegeses by African biblical scholars from a western perspective . In: Bibel und Kirche 3/2012, pp. 154–159.
  • Ezra Chitando, Rosinah Gabartse: Other ways of being a Diviner-healer: Musa W. Dube and the African Church's Response to HIV and AIDS. In: Ezra Chitando (Ed.): Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in Theological Education: Experiences and Exploitations . EHAIA, 2008, pp. 85-102.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forum Weltkirche: Musa W. Dube
  2. ↑ a b JGU Mainz, Gutenberg Teaching Award: 2017 - Musa W. Dube https://www.glk.uni-mainz.de/preise/gutenberg-teaching-award/2017-musa-w-dube/
  3. ↑ Emory: Musa Dube to Join Faculty in New Testament https://candler.emory.edu/news/releases/2020/05/musa-dube-to-join-faculty-in-new-testament.html
personal data
SURNAME Dube, Musa Wenkosi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Botswana evangelical theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Chadibe Borolong, Botswana