Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

Interdisciplinary Intersections
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-567-04530-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

Reihe: Bible and Postcolonialism

The most in-depth introduction to Postcolonial biblical studies to date
- Contributors are all seasoned scholars and well-known figures in contemporary biblical studies
- Postcolonial theory offers great promise for opening up a whole new way of interpreting the Bible and interrogating colonial assumptions embedded in biblical interpretation

Postcolonial studies have recently made significant inroads into biblical studies, giving rise to numerous conference papers, articles, essays and books. Postcolonial Biblical Criticism is the most in-depth and multifaceted introduction to this emerging field to date. It probes postcolonial biblical criticism from a number of different but interrelated angles in order to bring it into as sharp a focus as possible, so that its promise - and potential pitfalls - can be better appreciated. This volume carefully positions postcolonial biblical criticism in relation to other important political and theoretical currents in contemporary biblical studies: feminism; racial/ethnic studies; poststructuralism; and Marxism. Alternating between hermeneutical and exegetical reflection, the essays cumulatively isolate and evaluate the definitive features of postcolonial biblical criticism. Such a mapping of postcolonial biblical criticism as a whole has never before been undertaken in such explicit and detailed terms. The contributors include Roland Boer, Laura E. Donaldson, David Jobling, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Stephen D. Moore and Fernando F. Segovia.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Segovia, Fernando F.

Moore, Stephen D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Sonstige Theologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 'Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Meanderings and Intersections'
2. ‘Mapping the Postcolonial Optic for Biblical Criticism: Meaning and Scope'
3. 'Questions of Biblical Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree outside Delhi; or, the Postcolonial and the Postmodern'
4. 'Gospel Hauntings: The Postcolonial Demons of New Testament Criticism'
5. 'Margins and (Cutting-) Edges: On the (Il) Legitimacy and Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and (Post) Colonialism’
6. 'Marx, Postcolonialism, and the Bible'
7. 'Very Limited Ideological Options'

Über Autor(innen)

Fernando F. Segovia is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Stephen Moore is Professor of New Testament, Drew University, New Jersey.
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