The Noah flood narrative within the context of cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe : an exegetical and hermeneutical study of Genesis 6:5 – 9:17

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dc.contributor.advisorJonker, Louis C.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorChisango, Andrewen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Theology. Dept. of Old and New Testament.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-27T07:59:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T08:24:16Z
dc.date.available2024-02-27T07:59:44Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T08:24:16Z
dc.date.issued2024-02
dc.descriptionThesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research entails an investigation into the interpretation of the Genesis Flood story (Genesis 6-9) by Zimbabwean Christians in the Chipinge and Chimanimani areas. The special focus is on finding out the impact that the flooding during Cyclone Idai had on their understanding of the biblical flood narrative. A close look into most of Zimbabwean church leaders and ordinary readers’ appropriations of biblical narratives indicates that they tend to ignore historical-critical and social-scientific methods of biblical interpretation and prefer allegorical and/or literary self-projective reading methods. This kind of reading of the scriptures is applied to the Genesis flood story by most preachers and readers in the Chipinge and Chimanimani areas that had the most damage during Cyclone Idai in 2019. This has far-reaching implications both for how they make sense of the devastating event of the cyclone, as well as on how they may re ad the entire Bible in specific contexts. The research wants to study the methodological implications those Zimbabwean interpretations have for doing critical-scientific exegesis. There are several exegetical methodologies that are typically used in academic study to analyze the stories of the Old Testament and the Bible. These methods normally focus on the literary, historical, and theological dimensions of the biblical texts in order to reveal the intended meanings of a biblical passage, before the passage is interpreted in modern-day contexts. The question that stands central in this research is how, if at all, a combination of scientific methodological insights with lay readings of Genesis 6-9 can enrich our contemporary understandings, given the contextual experience of Zimbabweans during Cyclone Idai. The research therefore engages with the existing methodological tensions between Western and African readers of the Bible and asks how these could be integrated through communal and multidimensional approaches, for the benefit of both critical-scientific and lay readers’ understanding of the Bible within the context of the African continent.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing behels ‘n ondersoek na die interpretasie van die Genesis-vloedverhaal (Genesis 6-9) deur Zimbabwiese Christene in die Chipinge- en Chimanimani -gebiede. Die spesiale fokus is om uit te vind watter impak die oorstromings tydens sikloon Idai gehad het op hul begrip van die Bybelse vloedvertelling. ’n Noukeurige blik op die meeste Zimbabwiese kerkleiers en gewone lesers se toeëiening van Bybelse narratiewe dui daarop dat hulle geneig is om histories-kritiese en sosiaal-wetenskaplike metodes van Bybelinterpretasie te ign oreer enverkies om allegoriese en/of literêre self-projektiewe leesmetodes te gebruik. Hierdie soort lees van die Skrif word toegepas op die Genesis-vloedverhaal deur die meeste predikers en lesers in die Chipinge- en Chimanimani-gebiede wat die meeste skade gehad het tydens sikloon Idia in 2019. Dit het verreikende implikasies vir beide hoe hulle sin maak van die verwoestende gebeurtenis van die sikloon, asook oor hoe hulle die hele Bybel in spesifieke kontekste kan lees. Die navorsing wil die metodologiese implikasies wat die Zimbabwiese interpretasies het vir die doen van krities-wetenskaplike eksegese bestudeer. Daar is verskeie eksegetiese metodologieë wat tipies in akademiese studie gebruik word om die verhale van die Ou Testament en die Bybel te ontleed. Hierdie metodes fokus normaalweg op die literêre, historiese en teologiese dimensies van die Bybelse tekste om die bedoelde betekenisse van ‘n Bybelgedeelte te ontdek, voordat die gedeelte in hedendaagse kontekste geïnterpreteer word. Die vraag wat sentraal in hierdie navorsing staan, is hoe, indien enigsins, ‘n kombinasie van wetenskaplike metodologiese insigte met leke-lesings van Genesis 6-9 ons begrip kan verryk, gegewe die kontekstuele ervaring van Zimbabwiërs tydens sikloon Idai. Die navorsing het dus betrekking op die bestaande metodologiese spanning tussen Westerse en Afrika-lesers van die Bybel, en dit vra hoe hierdie benaderings geïntegreer kan word deur gemeenskaplike en multidimensionele benaderings, tot voordeel van beide krities-wetenskaplike en leke-lesers se verstaan van die Bybel binne die konteks. van die Afrika-kontinent.af_ZA
dc.description.versionDoctoralen_ZA
dc.format.extentx 171 pages : illustrations (some color)
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/130185
dc.language.isoen en_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshBible. Genesis, VI,5-IX,17 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_ZA
dc.subject.lcshCyclone Idai, 2019en_ZA
dc.subject.lcshUCTDen_ZA
dc.titleThe Noah flood narrative within the context of cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe : an exegetical and hermeneutical study of Genesis 6:5 – 9:17en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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