Professor David Tuesday Adamo passed away on June 22, at the age of 73. This means that the Nigerian and African guild of biblical studies has lost a profiled representative but it also means that many of us who work in the same field have lost a dear friend, in my case a friend over nearly three decades, hence: זיכרונו לברכה

Adamo taught us how to identify “Africa in the Old Testament” (his particular focus was on the Cushites) but also “the Old Testament in Africa” (his particular focus here was the reception and innovative use of the ancient texts in African Initiated Churches). Behind this focus on the interaction between Africa and the Old Testament was an eager will and wish to participate in the development of a consciously postcolonial biblical scholarship that is faithful both to the ancient texts and to the contemporary interpretive context of Africa.

Above is a picture from his late 1990s visit to Stavanger, spending time and sharing wisdom and anecdotes with Marta Høyland Lavik and myself. Also, a link to last year's Festschrift for Adamo, including no less than three articles by his Africa/Old Testament colleagues in Stavanger, Marta Høyland Lavik, Beth Elness-Hanson, and myself: https://ote-journal.otwsa-otssa.org.za/index.php/journal/issue/view/23

— Knut Holter