Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary IntersectionsPostcolonial studies has 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. |
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MEANING AND SCOPE | 23 |
QUESTIONS OF BIBLICAL AMBIVALENCE AND AUTHORITY UNDER A TREE OUTSIDE DELHI OR THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE POS... | 79 |
THE POSTCOLONIAL DEMONS OF NEW TESTAMENT CRITICISM | 97 |
ON THE ILLEGITIMACY AND INTERSECTIONS OF RACE ETHNICITY AND POSTCOLONIALISM | 114 |
MARX POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE BIBLE | 166 |
MARXISM AND BIBLICAL STUDIES IN POSTCOLONIAL SCENES | 184 |
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