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1 online resource. |
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Studies in theology and religion ; v. 20
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Studies in theology and religion ; v. 20.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Possibilities and Prospects of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Doing Mind and Road Mapping; Posing the Question(s); Another Tempest in the Postist World?; Post-isms? Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism and Postmodernism; The Post in Postcolonial?; Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Criteria and Characteristics; Elements of Postcolonial Hermeneutics: Textuality and Postcolonial Politics; Historical Leanings and a Twofold Archive; The Status of the Texts; Texts and Their Interpretative Traditions. |
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Rereading the Texts: Proficient Rediscovery and Subversive Rereading"Colonial Mimicry"? Using the Master's Tools, Indeed!; Postcolonial Contenders?; Cultural Studies and the Bible: A Useful Vantage Point; Postcolonial and Empire Studies; Decolonialising Studies; Conclusion; Chapter 2. Postcolonial Readings, or Not? Obvious or Impossible?; Aspects of the Hermeneutical Scene from a South African Perspective; Why Not Postcolonial Biblical Criticism?; Hermeneutics in Service to the Church and/or the Academy?; Textual Politics and Real Readers in Actual Locations; A Different Status for the Bible. |
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The Role of Tradition(s) of InterpretationHybridity Confronts the Nationalist Agenda; Conclusion; Chapter 3. Postcolonial Theory as Academic Double Agent? Power, Ideology and Postcolonial Hermeneutics; Why Postcolonial Biblical Studies?; Re-Invoking Ideology? Postcolonial as Ideological Criticism; Antipathy towards Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: The Case in Africa; Turf Wars? Unsettling Liberation Theology?; Continuing Struggles about Agency and Identity?; Narrow Academic Enterprise? Ivory-Tower Discourse?; Politically Ambiguous?; A Compromised Bible (and Christian Faith)?; Conclusion. |
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Chapter 4. Competing Missions in Acts. Countervailing "Missionary" Forces: Empire and Church in ActsHow to Describe Acts' Position towards Empire?; Social Conventions and Structures of Power; Politics and Religion: Two Sides of the Same Coin; Proselytising: Doing Mission / Making Followers?; Engaging Empire in Acts; Paul's Position vis-à-vis Empire; Kingdom of God; Political / Military Functionaries; Confluence of Imperial Power and Local Authorities in Acts; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Paul and Postcolonial Hermeneutics: Marginality and/in Early Biblical Interpretation (2Cor 10-13). |
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The Appeal of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism for Pauline StudiesHow is a Postcolonial Approach Hermeneutically Helpful?; Roman Empire, Paul, and Discourses of Power; Paul's Discourse of Power, and the Role of Scripture; Paul, Hermeneutics and Marginality; Paul and Postcolonial Hermeneutics: 2Corinthians 10-13; Mimicry and Ambivalence: Paul's Ideological Hermeneutics (2Cor 10); Hermeneutics and Othering: Weakness and Paul's Politics of Difference (2Cor 11); Identity and Hybridity: Foolishness and Paul's Politics of Identity (1Cor 12:11); Marginal Hermeneutics: Confluence and Tension (2Cor 13). |
| Summary |
In Postcolonial biblical interpretation Jeremy Punt reflects on the nature and value of postcolonial work as it relates to the interpretation of biblical (Pauline) texts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bible -- Postcolonial criticism.
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Bible. |
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Postcolonial criticism of sacred works. |
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Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Postcolonial criticism.
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Bible. Epistles of Paul. |
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Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Postcolonial criticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Punt, Jeremy. Postcolonial biblical interpretation : Reframing Paul. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004288454 |
| ISBN |
9789004288461 (electronic book) |
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9004288465 (electronic book) |
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9789004288454 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004288461 |
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