Biblical Representations of Moab

employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in contemporary Kenya and to utilize those critical tools to illuminate the Hebrew Bible narratives concerning the Moabites.

R. S. Wafula (PhD, Hebrew Bible, Drew University) completed his bachelor of divinity degree at St. Paul’s University in Limuru, Kenya. He earned his master’s degrees in theology in Hebrew Bible and Old Testament studies at Edinburgh University in Scotland; theological studies, Old Testament at the Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri; theology, Hebrew Bible at the Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pennsylvania; and philosophy, Hebrew Bible, at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Dr. Wafula is the author of «I Am What You Are Not: A Critical Postcolonial Reading of the ’s Abraham-Lot Stories in Genesis», which was featured in the edited volume .

Contents: Postcolonial (Postexilic) Context of Israelite-Moabite Representations – Methodological Concerns – Israelite-Moabite Ethnic Representations in the Hebrew Bible – Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations in Postcolonial Kenya – Israelite-Moabite Representations: Recasting the Story – General Concluding Remarks.