The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

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List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Theoretical Practices. Introduction: Theoretical Practices. (R. S. Sugirtharajah). 1. Charting the Aftermath: A Review of Criticism. (R. S. Sugirtharajah). 2. Biblical Criticism and Studies: Toward a Optic. (Fernando F.Segovia). 3. Making the Connections: Studies and Feminist Biblical Interpretation. (Kwok Pui-lan). Part II: Empires Old and New. Introduction: Empires Old and New. 4. Renewal Movements and Resistance to Empire in Ancient Judea. (Richard Horsley). 5. Postcolonialism and Imperial Motives for Canonization. (Jon L Berquist). 6. Roman Imperialism and Early Christian Scribality. (Werner H Kelber). 7. Desiring War: Apocalypse, Commodity Fetish, and the End of History. (Erin Runions). Part III: Empire and Exegesis. Introduction. 8. The Implications of the Text of Esther for African Women's Struggle for Liberation in South Africa. (Itumeleng J. Mosala). 9. Rahab says Hello to Judith: A Decolonizing Feminist Reading. (Musa Dube). 10. The Sign of Orpah: Reading Ruth through Native Eyes. (Laura Donaldson). 11. On Naming the Subject: Reading of Daniel 1. (Philip Chia). 12. Decolonizing Yahweh: A Reading of 2 Kings 24-25. (Kari Latvus). 13. Mark and Empire: Zealot and Postcolonial Readings. (Stephen D. Moore). 14. Tyranny, Boundary and Might: Colonial Mimicry in Mark's Gospel. (Tat-siong Benny Liew). 15. Mori Jews and Resistant Reading of John 5.10-47. (Mary Huie-Jolly). 16. God at the Crossroads: A Reading of Sophia. (Mayra Rivera). Part IV: Concerns. Introduction. 17. How Local Divine Powers were Suppressed: A Case of Mwari of Shona. Dora R. Mbuwayesnago. 18. Cutchery Tamil versus Pure Tamil: Contesting Language use in the Translated Bible in early Nineteenth-Century Protestant Tamil Community. (Hephzibah Israel). 19. Canonization and Marginalization. Mary of Magdala. Karen L. King. 20. Exodus toward Egypt: Filipino Americans' Struggle to Realize the Promised Land in America. Eleazar S. Fernandez. Index of Biblical References. Index of Names and Subjects.

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