1. Preface
2. Introduction - Mary Getui, Knut Holter and Zinkuratire

MAPPING THE CONTEXT OF OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES IN AFRICA
3. Africa and the Old Testament - Jesse Mugambi
4. The Current State of Old Testament Scholarship inAfrica: Where Are We at the Turn of the Century? - Knut Holter

FINDING AFRICA IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
5. The African Texts of the Old Testament and Their African Interpretations - Marta Hayland Lavik
6. The Images of Egypt in the Old Testament: Reflections on African Hermeneutics - Tewoldemedhin Habtu
7. The Images of Cush in the Old Testament: Reflections on African Hermeneutics - David Tuesday Adamo

USING AFRICA TO INTERPRET THE OLD TESTAMENT
8. Towards a "Communal" Approach for Reading the Bible in Africa - Louis Jonker
9. The Social Sciences and the Study of the Old Testament in Africa: Some Theological Considerations. - Aloo Osotsi Mojola
10. All Past and Present But Little Future? African and Old Testament Concepts of Time and History. - Hendrik Bosman
11. Taboos on Counting - Sammy Githuku
12. What's in a Name? African Versus Old Testament Nomenclature - Jonathan Gichaara
13. Using the Kamba Culture to Interpret Old Testamnt Covennants - Joseph Muutuki

USING THE OLD TESTAMENT TO INTERPRET AFRICA
14. Wisdom and Wisdom Converge: Selected Old Testament and Northern Sotho Proverbs - Madipoane Masenya (ngwana' Mphahlele)
15. A reflection on the Hagar Narratives in Genesis Through the Eyes of a Kenyan Woman - Constance Shisanya
16. Jeremiah 22: Implications for the Exercise of Political Power in Africa - Bungishabaku Katho
17. Interpreting the Book of Psalms in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Kenya - Pauline Otieno
18. The Old Testament in the Nabii Christian Church of Kenya - Philomena Mwaura
19. Work in the Old Testament and in African Tradition: Implications for Today - Margaret Aringo
20. Genesis 1-2 and some Elements of Diversion From the Original Meaning of the Creation of Man and Woman. - Anne Nasimiyu Wasike
21. The Bible in African Theology - Mary Getui
22. Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa: Last Will, Contract or Covenant? - Serapio Kabazzi Kisirinya

TRANSLATING THE OLD TESTAMENT IN AFRICA
23. United Bible Societies' for Old Testament Translation in Africa - Peter Renju
24. Central Issues of Old Testament Translation in Africa - Leonidas Kalugila
25. Morphological and Syntactical Correspondences Between Hebrew and Bantu Languages - Victor Zinkuratire

Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Index of Biblical References
List of Contributors