Full Description
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.
Contents
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 (II) Legitimacy and Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and (Post) Colonialism'; 6. 'Marx, Postcolonialism, and the Bible'; 7. 'Very Limited Ideological Options'.
