Generational Curses in the Pentateuch An American and Maasai Intercultural Analysis

"This volume represents an exemplary exercise in the religious-theological paradigm of interpretation within the spectrum of contemporary biblical criticism. Its framework is that of World Christianity, described in terms of an ever greater presence of the Global South alongside enduring marginalization in interpretation on the part of the Global North. Its approach is that of intercultural criticism, bringing voices together from different areas of the world for dialogue. Indeed, the exercise proves quite successful in every respect. The result is a most insightful reading of both the Maasai and American interpretations in context, with mutual illumination of both in the process. The result is also a most persuasive argument for diversity in the critical task. Altogether, therefore, Beth E. Elness-Hanson has produced an excellent example of intercultural analysis and issued an excellent call for dialogical reading within World Christianity at all levels, academic as well as popular."-Fernando F. Segovia, Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Vanderbilt University