This biographical article is written like a résumé.(August 2018) |
Themba (or Temba) Mafico | |
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Born | Gwenzi in the District of Chipinge, Zimbabwe |
Nationality | U.S. Citizen |
Education | University of London; Harvard Divinity School; Harvard Graduate School of Art and Sciences |
Occupation(s) | Minister, Professor, Administrator, Spiritual Mentor |
Notable work | Yahweh's Emergence As "Judge" Among the Gods: A Study of the Hebrew Root Špt |
Spouse | Roslyn (née Brake) Mafico |
Children | David Mafico, Erika Willingham, Sean Ramsey |
Themba (or Temba) Mafico is a Christian scholar and author. He was born in 1943 in then-Southern Rhodesia. As of 2019 he was president and CEO of the Mafico Leadership Renewal Institute based in Atlanta. He is a distinguished professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible—the bulk of his teaching and administrative career spent at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta—and has been a church minister for over fifty years. He earned a Th.M., M.A., and Ph.D. in Old Testament from Harvard University. His major publication is the book Yahweh's Emergence As "judge" Among the Gods: A Study of the Hebrew Root Špt.[1] He has also made several contributions to the Anchor Bible Dictionary, Abingdon Bible Dictionary, The International Bible Commentary.