Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical

This stimulating study explores the implications of postcolonial criticism for biblical studies. Sugirtharajah provides a comprehensive overview of the origins, definitions, and procedures of postcolonial criticism, followed by a discussion of its significance in biblical interpretation. He reveals how postcolonial criticism can offer new perspectives to our understanding of the Bible and of how Western Imperialism has shaped Christianity.

Introduction

1

(10)

PART I: POSTCOLONIAL CONSTRUALS

Charting the Aftermath: A Review of Postcolonial Criticism

11

(32)

The arrival of postcolonial criticism

14

(4)

Creative literature

18

(3)

The contours of postcolonial criticism

21

(3)

Clarification of the lexicon

24

(1)

Postcolonialism and biblical studies

25

(1)

Empire and theological reflections

26

(2)

Postcolonial criticism and cognate disciplines---feminism

28

(2)

Global intentions and postcolonial concerns

30

(3)

Is the United States postcolonial?

33

(3)

Concerns, temptations, conclusions

36

(7)

Redress, Regeneration, Redemption: A Survey of Biblical Interpretation

43

(31)

Dissident readings

44

(8)

Resistant readings

52

(3)

Heritagist readings

55

(8)

Nationalistic readings

63

(2)

Liberationist readings

65

(2)

Dissentient readings

67

(3)

Concluding remarks

70

(4)

Coding and Decoding: Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation

74

(29)

Orientalist tendencies

75

(4)

Decoding texts

79

(7)

Jesus and the colonial context

86

(5)

Colonial trauma and madness: The case of the Gerasene Demoniac

91

(3)

Transcending the text, visualizing the reality

94

(3)

Propagandist literature or confessional writings

97

(6)

Convergent Trajectories? Liberation Hermeneutics and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

103

(24)

Marks of classic liberation hermeneutics

104

(3)

Gutierrez's Job

107

(3)

Tamez's Paul

110

(2)

Liberation hermeneutics and its entanglements

112

(3)

Religion and liberation

115

(2)

Postcolonialism and liberation hermeneutics as companions in struggle

117

(10)

PART II: POSTCOLONIAL PREOCCUPATIONS

The Version on Which the Sun Never Sets: The English Bible and its Authorizing Tendencies

127

(28)

The context of the English Bible

129

(2)

The rise of the English Bible

131

(3)

The Englishness of the Bible

134

(5)

Simple people and the simplicity of the Scripture: The Geneva Bible

139

(5)

A text for the empire: A post-imperial footnote

144

(1)

Colonial parallels

145

(5)

Concluding remarks

150

(5)

Blotting the Masters Copy: Locating Bible Translation

155

(24)

Confusing and confused tongues

156

(5)

Dismissing and embracing

161

(3)

Translations and their preoccupations

164

(4)

A postcolonial gaze at the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

168

(3)

Some notes on postcolonial biblical translation

171

(8)

Hermeneutics in Transit: Diaspora and Interpretation

179

(21)

Defining diaspora

180

(3)

Postcolonialism and diaspora

183

(2)

Uprootings of text and persons: Diaspora and biblical interpretation

185

(5)

Diasporic hermeneutics: Some markers

190

(5)

Some concluding remarks

195

(5)

Afterword

200

(8)

References

208

(17)

Index of biblical references

225

(2)

Index of names and subjects

227

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Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation

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