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1 The copyright of this thesis vests in the author. No quotation from it or information derived from it is to be published without full acknowledgement of the source. The thesis is to be used for private study or noncommercial research purposes only. Published by the (UCT) in terms of the non-exclusive license granted to UCT by the author.

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11 name ot 'belonging to difference' (West, 1999:142). Decontextuillized biblical hermeneutics- 'Interpretation of the Bible on the basis of the context of Bible readers and the Bible text. Influence of its interpretation extends beyond the Bible reader's political and cultural context in the name of 'globill unity_' 1.4 Methodology West (1993) suggests three modes ot contextual reading ot the Bible as follows: 'Behind the Text". 'Reading the Text', 'In front of the Text' Whereas the first 'Behind the Text' reading focuses on the context of the Bible text in the past. the second 'Reading the Text" and the third 'In frorlt of the fext' focuses on the current context of the readers_ Behind the Text Reader r Reading the Text The PelS! (Socio-hlstorical The Bible text In front of the Text The Present (The Future). and cultural context of the (Conlext of the Readers), I Bible text), Behind the Text (Socio-historical and cultural context of the Bible text approach) fhe first mode of reilding (Behind the Text) depends on the sources of the Bible, such as sociological, anlhropologicili ilrld ilrchaeologicill research data As a result. this mode of reading focuses on the context of the Bible in the PilSt For example, ~'losilla ( ) interprets the 'Cain and Abel' story in Genesis 4 given the socio-historical and cullurill context of the text of Gerlesis 4_ In shari, hy using historical-critical tools like source and form criticism, r-.,josala (1989) lociltes the writing of the text of Genesis 4 in the David-Solomon period of the Isrilelile monarch Irl audition, from archileological, anthropological and comparative research, he reconstructed early or pre-monarchic Israel, which was rlecessary for proving the tensiorls between Cain and Abel This tension arose in transition trom a pre-monarchic society to a monarchic society. David and Solomon were political rulers in the transition perioos While city- I

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