Biblical pragmatism in the pandemic outbreak of Numbers 25:1–18 : towards an African paradigm

dc.contributor.authorNdoga, Sampson S.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-18T05:20:16Z
dc.date.available2022-03-18T05:20:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-12
dc.descriptionThis research is part of the research project, ‘Old Testament and Actuality Themes and Religion’, directed by Prof. Dr Dirk Human, Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractNumbers 25 presents a human crisis requiring swift leadership interventions to curb the plague. Leadership failure plays out on a number of levels before decisive and resolute interventions are taken. This passage shows a human-created crisis that somewhat parallels the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak and offers reflective pragmatic approaches taken to ensure immediate arresting of the pandemic and perhaps future curbing of a similar instigation. CONTRIBUTION : Africa has always been known to respond rather belatedly to crises that cost human lives and also for waiting for solutions to come from elsewhere. How do we change that paradigm going forward and what does it mean for the analysis of biblical texts? African hermeneutical readings that take contextual issues rather seriously are utilised in this study.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentOld Testament Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2022en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNdoga, S.S., 2021, ‘Biblical pragmatism in the pandemic outbreak of Numbers 25:1–18: Towards an African paradigm’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 77(4), a6375. https://DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v77i4.6375.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v77i4.6375
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/84536
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherOpenJournals Publishingen_ZA
dc.rights© 2021. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectLeadershipen_ZA
dc.subjectCrisisen_ZA
dc.subjectPandemicen_ZA
dc.subjectOutbreaksen_ZA
dc.subjectCulticen_ZA
dc.subjectNumbers 25en_ZA
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemicen_ZA
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemicen_ZA
dc.titleBiblical pragmatism in the pandemic outbreak of Numbers 25:1–18 : towards an African paradigmen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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