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The postcolonial Biblical reader / edited by R.S. Sugirtharajah.

Contributor(s): Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.)
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006Description: xii, 317 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1405133503 (pbk. : alk. paper); 140513349X; 9781405133494; 9781405133500Subject(s): Bible -- Postcolonial criticismDDC classification: 220.6 LOC classification: BS511.3 | .P67 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- Introduction : theoretical practices / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- Charting the aftermath : a review of postcolonial criticism / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- Biblical criticism and postcolonial studies : toward a postcolonial optic / Fernando F. Segovia -- Making the connections : postcolonial studies and feminist Biblical interpretation / Kwok Pui-lan -- Introduction : empires old and new / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- Renewal movements and resistance to empire in ancient Judea / Richard A. Horseley -- Postcolonialism and imperial motives for canonization / Jon L. Berquist -- Roman imperialism and early Christian scribality / Werner H. Kelber -- Desiring war : apocalypse, commodity fetish, and the end of history / Erin Runions -- Introduction : empire and exegesis / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- The implications of the text of Esther for African women's struggle for liberation in South Africa / Itumeleng J. Mosala --
Rahab says hello to Judith : a decolonizing feminist reading / Musa W. Dube -- The sign of Orpah : reading Ruth through native eyes / Laura E. Donaldson -- On naming the subject : postcolonial reading of Daniel 1 / Philip Chia -- Decolonizing Yahweh : a postcolonial reading of 2 Kings 24-25 / Kari Latvus -- Mark and empire : "zealot" and "postcolonial" readings / Stephen D. Moore -- Tyranny, boundary, and might : colonial mimicry in Mark's gospel / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- Maori "Jews" and a resistant reading of John 5.10-47 / Mary Huie-Jolly -- God at the crossroads : a postcolonial reading of Sophia / Mayra Rivera -- Introduction : postcolonial concerns / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- How local divine powers were suppressed : a case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora R. Mbuwayesango -- Cutchery Tamil versus pure Tamil : contesting language use in the translated Bible in the early Nineteenth-century Protestant Tamil community / Hephzibah Israel -- Canonization and marginalization : Mary of Magdela / Karen L. King -- Exodus-toward-Egypt : Filipino-Americans' struggle to realize the promised land in America / Eleazar S. Fernandez.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- Introduction : theoretical practices / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- Charting the aftermath : a review of postcolonial criticism / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- Biblical criticism and postcolonial studies : toward a postcolonial optic / Fernando F. Segovia -- Making the connections : postcolonial studies and feminist Biblical interpretation / Kwok Pui-lan -- Introduction : empires old and new / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- Renewal movements and resistance to empire in ancient Judea / Richard A. Horseley -- Postcolonialism and imperial motives for canonization / Jon L. Berquist -- Roman imperialism and early Christian scribality / Werner H. Kelber -- Desiring war : apocalypse, commodity fetish, and the end of history / Erin Runions -- Introduction : empire and exegesis / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- The implications of the text of Esther for African women's struggle for liberation in South Africa / Itumeleng J. Mosala --

Rahab says hello to Judith : a decolonizing feminist reading / Musa W. Dube -- The sign of Orpah : reading Ruth through native eyes / Laura E. Donaldson -- On naming the subject : postcolonial reading of Daniel 1 / Philip Chia -- Decolonizing Yahweh : a postcolonial reading of 2 Kings 24-25 / Kari Latvus -- Mark and empire : "zealot" and "postcolonial" readings / Stephen D. Moore -- Tyranny, boundary, and might : colonial mimicry in Mark's gospel / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- Maori "Jews" and a resistant reading of John 5.10-47 / Mary Huie-Jolly -- God at the crossroads : a postcolonial reading of Sophia / Mayra Rivera -- Introduction : postcolonial concerns / R. S. Sugirtharajah -- How local divine powers were suppressed : a case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora R. Mbuwayesango -- Cutchery Tamil versus pure Tamil : contesting language use in the translated Bible in the early Nineteenth-century Protestant Tamil community / Hephzibah Israel -- Canonization and marginalization : Mary of Magdela / Karen L. King -- Exodus-toward-Egypt : Filipino-Americans' struggle to realize the promised land in America / Eleazar S. Fernandez.

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