Qualifications
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PhD The Bible Through African Eyes: A Comparative Study of the Epistemology in the Hermeneutics of Indigenous Preachers in Eastern Zambia with that in Select Intra-Biblical Appropriations and Re-appropriations of the Exodus Event and its Ramifications for African Biblical Hermeneutical Methods
(University of Edinburgh, 2007) -
MTh Translation Studies
(University of Free State, South Africa 2017) -
MTh Research Epistemology and Hermeneutics
(University of Edinburgh, 2001) -
MCS Christian Studies (Old Testament)
(Regent College, Vancouver, 2000) -
Dip. CS Christian Studies
(Regent College, Vancouver) -
BTh Pastoral Theology and Missions
(Trans-Africa Theological College, Zambia)
Research Interests
- Relationship between Epistemology and Hermeneutics
- Continuities and Discontinuities between African worldviews and Semitic worldviews
- Geography of Biblical lands
- Sociology and Education
Current Specialism
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Understanding and teaching Biblical Hebrew through African Epistemological Eyes
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Modern Hebrew (with a view to trace language development from Classical Hebrew)
Other Professional Experience
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Associate Professor – Biblical Studies, Pan Africa Christian University: Nairobi
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Research Fellow, University of Free State: Bloemfontein
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Adjunct Professor – Biblical Hebrew
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Visiting Professor – Translation Studies, St. Paul’s University: Limuru, Nairobi
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Pastor
Selected Publications
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‘Familiar Ground: Origins and Trajectories of African Biblical Scholarship’, in Stephen R, Goodwin (ed), World Christianity in Local Context: Essays in Memory of David A. Kerr. Vol. 1 (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009) 80-97.
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‘Theological interpretation and translation reception: translating ‘Spirit of God’ in Genesis 1.1-2’, The Bible Translator, 64.3 (2013) 284-299.
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‘The Pastor as Spiritual Mediator between God and the Congregation: Corruptions of the relationships of the ‘Under-Shepherd,’ the ‘Flock’ and the ‘Chief Shepherd’ in a Zambian context and their implications for spiritual maturity’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, 77.4 (2021).
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Translating Vernacular Bibles for Africans through European Eyes: Case studies in Nineteenth-Century Translation (Hippo Books, 2023).