The Postcolonial Biblical Reader

The\rPostcolonial\rBiblical\rReader......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
Part I: Theoretical Practices......Page 15
Introduction: Theoretical Practices......Page 17
1 Charting the Aftermath: A Review of Postcolonial Criticism......Page 19
2 Biblical Criticism and Postcolonial Studies: Toward a Postcolonial Optic......Page 45
3 Making the Connections: Postcolonial Studies and Feminist\rBiblical Interpretation......Page 57
Part II: Empires Old and New......Page 77
Introduction: Empires Old and New......Page 79
4 Renewal Movements and Resistance to Empire in Ancient Judea......Page 81
5 Postcolonialism and Imperial Motives for Canonization......Page 90
6 Roman Imperialism and Early Christian Scribality......Page 108
7 Desiring War: Apocalypse, Commodity Fetish, and the End of History......Page 124
Part III: Empire and Exegesis......Page 141
Introduction: Empire and Exegesis......Page 143
8 The Implications of the Text of Esther for African Women’s\rStruggle for Liberation in South Africa......Page 146
9 Rahab Says Hello to Judith: A Decolonizing Feminist Reading......Page 154
10 The Sign of Orpah: Reading Ruth through Native Eyes......Page 171
11 On Naming the Subject: Postcolonial Reading of Daniel 1......Page 183
12 Decolonizing Yahweh: A Postcolonial Reading of 2 Kings 24–25......Page 198
13 Mark and Empire: ‘‘Zealot’’ and ‘‘Postcolonial’’ Readings......Page 205
14 Tyranny, Boundary, and Might: Colonial Mimicry in Mark’s Gospel......Page 218
15 Maori ‘‘Jews’’ and a Resistant Reading of John 5.10–47......Page 236
16 God at the Crossroads: A Postcolonial Reading of Sophia......Page 250
Part IV: Postcolonial Concerns......Page 267
Introduction: Postcolonial Concerns......Page 269
17 How Local Divine Powers were Suppressed: A Case of Mwari of the Shona......Page 271
18 Cutchery Tamil versus Pure Tamil: Contesting Language Use in the\rTranslated Bible in the Early Nineteenth-Century Protestant Tamil\rCommunity......Page 281
19 Canonization and Marginalization: Mary of Magdala......Page 296
20 Exodus-toward-Egypt: Filipino-Americans’ Struggle to Realize\rthe Promised Land in America......Page 303
Index of Biblical References......Page 317
Index of Names and Subjects......Page 325