Musa Dube
{{Short description|Botswana feminist theologian and biblical scholar}}
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| website = https://candler.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/dube-musa.html
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| doctoral_advisor = Fernando Segovia
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Musa W. Dube (born 28 July 1964), also known as Musa Wenkosi Dube Shomanah, is a Botswanan feminist theologian and Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and she is known for her work in postcolonial biblical scholarship.
Biography
Dube studied New Testament in the University of Durham in 1990, before completed her PhD in New Testament at Vanderbilt University in 1997, where she was supervised under postcolonial biblical scholar Fernando Segovia.{{cite web |title=Political Theology as Discernment: Keynote Speakers |url=https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/lest/lest-xii/key-note-speakers |website=theo.kuleuven.be |access-date=29 May 2019 |language=en}} She was Professor of New Testament at the University of Botswana. Dube joined the faculty of Candler School of Theology in Fall 2021 as a Professor of New Testament. She has written over two hundred and sixty scholarly works throughout her academic career that focus on liberation theology through a feminist postcolonial lens.{{Cite web|last=Hanna|first=Laurel|date=May 1, 2020|title=Musa Dube to Join Faculty in New Testament|url=https://candler.emory.edu/news/releases/2020/05/musa-dube-to-join-faculty-in-new-testament.html|website=Candler School of Theology}}
Dube is committed to approaching the biblical text from a feminist postcolonial lens. As a lay preacher in the Methodist church, Dube preaches a liberation theology which refuses to blame women for evil and offers new interpretations of scripture. Dube believes that Western perspectives on biblical writings are patriarchal which denies the truth of the gospel.{{cn|date=June 2021}}
In 2011, Dube was a recipient of a Humboldt Prize,{{cite web |title=Musa Dube |url=http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/theologyandreligionresearch/tag/musa-dube/ |website=Theology and Religion in Exeter |access-date=29 May 2019 |date=18 July 2016}} In 2017 she was the winner of the international Gutenberg Teaching Award.{{Cite web|last=Dube|first=Musa|title=Candler School of Theology|url=https://candler.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/dube-musa.html|access-date=February 12, 2022|website=Emory University: Candler School of Theology}} In 2018, she was awarded a Doctor of Theology honoris causa at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.{{cite web |title=Stellenbosch University honours UB professor |url=https://www.ub.bw/news/stellenbosch-university-honours-ub-professor |website=University of Botswana |access-date=29 May 2019}}
Research
Dube's life experiences informed her academic interest in feminist post-colonial interpretations of scripture. In parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity is known as a distrusting religion introduced by colonizers and the cause of many injustices towards communities of color. Dube reintroduces the Bible in a postcolonial lens that addresses the issue of colonization without denying the Bible.{{Cite book|last=Dube|first=Musa|title=Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible|publisher=Chalice Press|year=200|location=St. Louis, Missouri|pages=3–5}} She acknowledges the paradox for African men and women when it comes to dealing with religion, politics, and ethics.{{cn|date=June 2021}}
Awards
Works
- {{cite book |editor-last1=Dube |editor-first1=Musa W. |editor-last2=Wafula |editor-first2=R. S. |title=Postcoloniality, Translation, and the Bible in Africa |date=2017 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=9781498295147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FPctDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}
- {{cite book |editor-last1=Dube |editor-first1=Musa W. |editor-last2=Mbuvi |editor-first2=Andrew M. |editor-last3=Mbuwayesango |editor-first3=Dora R. |title=Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations |date=2013 |publisher=Society of Biblical Literature |isbn=9781589837867 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x84SmwEACAAJ |language=en}}
- {{cite book |last1=Dube |first1=Musa W. |title=Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible |date=2012 |publisher=Chalice Press |isbn=9780827230576 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bD0XkXtiG1wC |language=en}}
- {{cite book |last1=Dube |first1=Musa W. |title=The HIV & AIDS Bible: Selected Essays |date=2008 |publisher=University of Scranton Press |isbn=9781589661141 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xDZAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}
- {{cite book |last1=Dube |first1=Musa W. |title=Other ways of reading: African women and the Bible |date=2001 |publisher=Society of Biblical Literature |isbn=9782825413401 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=394lAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}
- {{cite book |editor-last1=West |editor-first1=Gerald O. |editor-last2=Dube |editor-first2=Musa W. |title=The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends |date=2000 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004106277 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DcVuqtoEiIC |language=en}}
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Category:Alumni of Durham University
Category:Christian feminist biblical scholars
Category:Christian feminist theologians
Category:Academic staff of the University of Botswana
Category:Vanderbilt University alumni
Category:World Christianity scholars
Category:Women Christian theologians
Category:Translation theorists