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The Africa Bible Commentary is a unique publishing eventthe first one-volume Bible commentary produced in Africa by African theologians to meet the needs of African pastors, students, and lay leaders. Interpreting and applying the Bible in the light of African culture and realities, it furnishes powerful and relevant insights into the biblical text that transcend Africa in their significance. The Africa Bible Commentary gives a section-by-section interpretation that provides a contextual, readable, affordable, and immensely useful guide to the entire Bible. Readers around the world will benefit from and appreciate the commentarys fresh insights and direct style that engage both heart and mind. Key features: Produced by African biblical scholars, in Africa, for Africaand for the world Section-by-section interpretive commentary and application More than 70 special articles dealing with topics of key importance in to ministry in Africa today, but that have global implications 70 African contributors from both English- and French-speaking countries Transcends the African context with insights into the biblical text and the Christian faith for readers worldwide
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Published by HippoBooks for distribution in Africa by:
WordAlive Publishers, PO Box 4547, GP0-00100 Nairobi, Kenya
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Africa Christian Textbooks (ACTS), TCNN, PMB 2020, Bukuru 930008, Plateau State, Nigeria
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Published for distribution in the rest of the world by Zondervan
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First edition published in 2006
ABC Editorial Board, Association of Evangelicals of Africa (AEA)
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the appropriate publisher.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.
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ePub Edition November 2020: ISBN 978-0-310-87128-6
The Library of Congress has cataloged the first edition as follows:
Africa Bible commentary : a one-volume commentary / Tokunboh Adeyemo, general editor
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-9966-805-78-2 (African Edition)
ISBN 978-0-310-26473-6 (Zondervan Edition)
1. Bible Commentaries. 2. Theology Africa. I. Adeyemo, Tokunbo.
BS491.3.A47 2006
220.7096 dc22
2006004692
Cover design: Projectluz projectluz@mac.com
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The Bible has an indispensable part to play in the church members personal discipleship and in the pastors preaching ministry. But this statement assumes that they can understand it. Hence the wonderful provision of the Africa Bible Commentary. One of the most significant recent developments in the churches of Africa is the rise of sound biblical scholarship. The church is fortunate indeed to see this resurgence in the continent that gave us such interpreters as Augustine and Athanasius. The Africa Bible Commentary is a publishing landmark, and I congratulate contributors and editors on their achievement. Its foundation is biblical, its perspective African, and its approach to controversial questions balanced. I intend to use it myself in order to gain African insights into the Word of God. Indeed, I hope it will have a worldwide readership, so that we may better grasp with all Gods people the full dimensions of Christs love (Eph 3:18).
John Stott
December 2005
The phenomenal growth of the church in Africa brings with it many challenges. One of these challenges is how to sustain the numerical growth while ensuring that the faith of Christians is firmly grounded in the revealed and written word of God the Holy Bible. Grounding the peoples faith in the Bible requires intensifying the teaching ministry of the church. This, in turn, creates a need for appropriate tools to assist pastors, seminarians, theologians, lay preachers and Christian Education teachers to teach effectively. The Africa Bible Commentary written by African theologians has come at the right time!
What makes the Africa Bible Commentary unique and relevant is the fact that it has been written by African theologians who love the Lord and are committed to the life of the church. They write out of their matured practical experience in teaching the Bible within the Christian community. The content of the commentary can thus be described as tried and tested material that will help others towards Christian maturity when prayerfully used.
In interpreting the biblical text, the authors have also been able to bring together Christian spirituality and the depth of their understanding of African culture and religion.
The Africa Bible Commentary will also be useful to Christians outside the African continent who want to enrich their own understanding of the Bible by stepping outside their own culture and experience. In so doing, they will gain insights into their own culture as well, for the African scholars who contributed to the commentary also have a rich and varied experiences of the life of the church outside Africa.
I wish to express my deepest appreciation to all those who contributed to the writing of this commentary and enthusiastically recommend it to Christians everywhere who want to understand the Bible in order to live out and share their faith.
The Most Rev. Dr Robert K. Aboagye-Mensah
Presiding Bishop
The Methodist Church, Ghana
February 2006
Everything begins with an idea, a thought, or a concept. As the idea grows, possibilities begin to emerge, riding on the wings of creative thinking. It is like the seed in the parable of the Sower that falls on good soil and yields a bumper harvest (Matt 13:8). In the case of the Africa Bible Commentary (ABC), this harvest has sprung from an idea that began to grow in the minds of a number of African church leaders and a cross-section of overseas missionary partners working in Africa.
In September 1994, representatives of Protestant churches, both ecumenical and evangelical, gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Second Pan Africa Christian Leadership Assembly (PACLA II). At this historic meeting, Christian leaders identified deficient knowledge of the Bible and faulty application of its teaching as the primary weakness of the church in Africa. They recognized that the church in Africa was a mile long in terms of quantity, but only an inch deep in terms of quality. The Bible needed to be interpreted and explained to the people in familiar language, using colloquial metaphors, African thought-forms and nuances, and practical applications that fitted the African context. After all, God is closer to the people when he speaks in their language, as St Augustine of Hippo once said.
Inspired by the conference, academics set to work and produced many books. But these ended up in the libraries of academic institutions and in the hands of theological students and their professors. These books did not meet the needs of the millions of believers and their pastors who do not have the privilege of a seminary education. So a dream was born among the leadership of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA). They dreamed of an African Bible commentary produced by seventy African scholars and theologians, male and female, Francophone and Anglophone, who would both explain the text of all sixty-six books in the Bible and apply the Bibles teaching to contemporary Africa. As Professor Bediako stated, such a book would be a fundamental resource for the church in Africa: for Christian thought, action and scholarship.
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