Musa W. Dube (born 28 July 1964), also known as Musa Wenkosi Dube Shomanah, is a

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n feminist theologian and Professor of New Testament at the

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, and she is known for her work in postcolonial biblical scholarship.

Biography

Dube studied

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in the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

in 1990, before completed her PhD in New Testament at

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in 1997, where she was supervised under postcolonial biblical scholar

Fernando Segovia Fernando F. Segovia (born 1948) is a Cuban Americans, Cuban American biblical scholar, theologian, scriptural critic, and cultural critic. He is the Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Vanderbilt University Vande ...

. She was Professor of New Testament at the

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. Dube joined the faculty of

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. 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. In 2011, Dube was a recipient of a

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, In 2017 she was the winner of the international Gutenberg Teaching Award. In 2018, she was awarded a

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'' at

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, South Africa.

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. She acknowledges the paradox for African men and women when it comes to dealing with religion, politics, and ethics.

Awards

Works

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References

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