 SOAR |
Exploring the Black Heritage in the Bible
Monthly Lecture/Discussion Series led by
Fr. Ernest Munachi Ezeogu, C.S.Sp.
A Scripture scholar in the Catholic tradition
Upcoming Sessions:
January 21, 1999
February 18, 1999
March 18, 1999
April 22, 1999
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
at
Regis College
Elliott MacGuigan Hall
67 St. Nicholas Street
2 blocks South of Yonge/Bloor, West (right) on St. Mary Street
And South (left) on St. Nicholas Street
For more information FREE registration contact:
Sandra Drakes (416) 233-8702
Bernadine Stewart(416) 504-1507
Ann Wong(416) 964-7502
Sr. Hazel Campayne(416) 920-0132
Rev. Paulette Brown(416) 638-5654
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Many Christians had in the past used the Bible to justify the dehumanization of Africa in the form of the cross-Atlantic slave traffic and colonization. The principle of Apartheid and racial discrimination has been championed and defended using the Bible. Till today, many Bible-believing Christians still believe that the problems of present day Africa are traceable to divine malediction. This series of lectures investigates the role of Africa and Africans (Blacks) in biblical history and in the formative period of the biblical tradition. We shall examine the ways in which Africa and Africans (Blacks) have been portrayed at different stages in the evolution of biblical narrative. Particular attention is paid to the negative view of Africa that has predominated popular Western biblical scholarship and the argument is made for an Afrocentric hermeneutic as a key to unlocking the Black heritage in the Bible and enabling Black people everywhere hear the Word of God in the Bible as the Good News that it is and not the bad news that it has sometimes been made to be. In the end we hope to know the Truth, and the Truth will empower us and make us free.
LECTURE SCHEDULE
| DATE | TOPIC |
| May 13, 1998 | Identification of Black People and Nations in the Bible |
| June 17, 1998 | Origin of Blacks in the Bible (Modern Science Comes to the Rescue) |
| July 15, 1998 | The So-called Curse of Ham (An Ethnological Etiology?) |
| September 17, 1998 | The Black Wives and Children of Abraham ( Hagar and Ishmael) |
| October 15, 1998 | The Black Constituency of the Covenant Community |
| November 12, 1998 | Miriam and the Ethiopian Wife of Moses (Black Colour in the Bible) |
| January 21, 1999 | Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (The Tradition of Kebra Nagast) |
| February 18, 1999 | Black Court Officials in Israel (Uriah, Ebed-Melech, Zephaniah) |
| March 18, 1999 | The Black Identity of Jesus (The Flight into Egypt) |
| April 22, 1999 | Black People in the Life of Jesus (Magi, Simon of Cyrene, ...) |
| May 1999 | Famous Black Leaders in the Early Church (The Ethiopian Officer, ...) |
The Lord says this:
"Israel, you are no different to me than the people of Cush.
I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt.
I also brought the Philistines from Crete
and the Arameans from Kir. (Amos 9:7)
God shows no partiality,
but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right
is acceptable to him. (Acts 10:34-35).
© Ernest Munachi Ezeogu, 1998
