Double Image: Biblical Insights from African Parables

By Del Tar and Delbert Howard Tarr

Drawing on fifteen years of pastoral experience in West Africa, Del Tarr presents a wonderful collection of stories, proverbs, and legends that reveal a far different way of knowing their love of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809134691
• ISBN13: 9780809134694
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Parables and African Culture

Drawing on fifteen years of pastoral experience in West Africa, Del Tarr presents a wonderful collection of stories, proverbs, and legends that reveal a far different way of knowing the world than western societies usually follow. But their love of ambiguity and allegory in order to understand reality is far closer to the manner of Jesus' parables than to first-world cultural understandings today. Different cultural and world views affect the way that westerners and Africas interpret the Bible, and we can learn from each other. in many ways the less industrial and more agrarian world of West Africa renders it's peoples closer to the original speakers and hearers of the biblical period. We can certainly learn much from their appreciation of the power of parable in their cultural experience. This is a valuable religious, cultural and anthropological study of the way African interpretations of life and of language can give us an additional insight into the meaning if bilical parables - a double focus instead of a narrowly one-sided vision. -- from book's back cover