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Project completed in 2002: Analysis of doctoral dissertations

  • Project title: A Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography of African Old Testament Dissertations, 1967-2000.
  • Responsible: Knut Holter
  • Funding: Nansen Foundation and Affiliated Funds (Oslo), Non-Fiction Literature Fund (Oslo), Norwegian Research Council (Oslo).
  • Project description: The book offers a pioneering analysis of the first generation of doctoral dissertations in Old Testament studies written in African and Western institutions by sub-Saharan African scholars. As many as 87 published and unpublished dissertations from the period 1967-2000 are analyzed from bibliographical, institutional and thematic perspectives.
  • Published: Knut Holter: Old Testament Research for Africa: A Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography of African Old Testament Dissertations, 1967-2000. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002 (Bible and Theology in Africa; 3).