Reading Proverbs 13:23 in Texts and Contexts of Poverty in Africa: A Theoretical Framework

dc.contributor.authorWabyanga, Robert Kuloba
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-24T08:09:23Z
dc.date.available2024-06-24T08:09:23Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionP. (1-35) ;en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Masoretic text of Prov 13:23 (רָב־ אֹ֭כֶל נִ֣יר רָא שִׁ֑ים וְ יֵ֥ש נִ֜סְפֶֶּ֗הבְלִ֣ א משְפָָּֽט) highlights the absence of mishpat (משְפָט) as the cause of the poverty of the poor. This article reads Prov 13:23 in conversation with the contemporary conceptualisation of economic poverty. The concept of mishpat (משְפָט) is theorised and hermeneutically applied to the issue of poverty in Africa. The key questions under investigation are: What is mishpat in the text and its context? How should mishpat be read in the African context? How does the biblical understanding of the poor and mishpat inform responses to Africa's poverty? In this study, the assumptions are that poverty in Africa is the result of both socio-economic and political injustices of the West and Africans themselves. Africans are agents of their own poverty. The study employs a hermeneutical and multidisciplinary approach, drawing examples from the social sciences.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWabyanga, R. K. (2022). Reading Proverbs 13:23 in Texts and Contexts of Poverty in Africa: A Theoretical Framework. Journal of the Old Testament society of South Africa.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2022/v35n2a10
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12504/1858
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of the Old Testament society of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectProverbs 13:23en_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectPovertyen_US
dc.subjectPooren_US
dc.titleReading Proverbs 13:23 in Texts and Contexts of Poverty in Africa: A Theoretical Frameworken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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