How Long to Read Divining the Woman of Endor

How Long Does it Take to Read Divining the Woman of Endor?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Divining the Woman of Endor by J. Kabamba Kiboko

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called “Witch of Endor” passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination in this passage and beyond has been mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings. Kiboko argues that the woman of Endor is not a witch. The woman of Endor is, rather, a diviner, much like other ancient Near Eastern and modern African diviners. She resists an inner-biblical conquest theology and a monologic authoritarian view of divination to assist King Saul by various means, including invoking the spirit of a departed person, Samuel. Kiboko carries out a Hebrew word-study shaped by the theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin regarding the utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogism in order to understand the designative, connotative, emotive, and associative meanings of the many divinatory terms in the Hebrew Bible. She then examines 1 Samuel 28 and a number of prior translations thereof, using the ideological framework of African-feminist-postcolonial biblical interpreters and translation theories to uncover the hidden ideology or transcript of these translations. Finally, using African contextual/cultural hermeneutics and cross-cultural translation theory, Kiboko offers new English, French, and Kisanga translations of this passage that are both faithful to the original text and more appropriate to an inculturated-liberation African Christian hermeneutic, theology, and praxis.

How long is Divining the Woman of Endor?

Divining the Woman of Endor by J. Kabamba Kiboko is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Divining the Woman of Endor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Divining the Woman of Endor aloud.

What Reading Level is Divining the Woman of Endor?

Divining the Woman of Endor is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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