Postcolonial Biblical Criticism Interdisciplinary Intersections [Paperback]

Postcolonial studies has 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.

Stephen D. Moore, Theological School, Drew University, USA and Fernando F. Segovia, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, USA
'Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Meanderings and Intersections'

Fernando F. Segovia, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, USA?
'Mapping the Postcolonial Optic for Biblical Criticism: Meaning and Scope'

Stephen D. Moore, Theological School, Drew University, USA
'Questions of Biblical Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree outside Delhi; or, the Postcolonial and the Postmodern'

Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University, USA
'Gospel Hauntings: The Postcolonial Demons of New Testament Criticism'

Tat-siong Benny Liew, Chicago Theological Seminary, USA
'Margins and (Cutting-)Edges: On the (Il)Legitimacy and Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and (Post)Colonialism'