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Format:
Paperback 256 pp.
1 halftone, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-10:
0198752695

ISBN-13:
9780198752691

Publication date:
March 2002

Imprint: OUP UK

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Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation

R. S. Sugirtharajah

In this stimulating study, R. S. Sugirtharajah explores the implications of postcolonial criticism for biblical studies. He provides a comprehensive overview of the origins, definitions, and procedures of postcolonial criticism, followed by a discussion of the significance of postcolonial criticism in biblical interpretation. He reveals how postcolonial criticism can offer an alternative perspective to our understanding of the Bible, and how, when the Bible has been deployed as a Western cultural icon, it has come to be questioned in new ways.

Readership : This book will interest students on Religious Studies courses in Biblical Interpretation, as well as those on English or Cultural Studies courses in Postcolonialism. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in the significance of postcolonial perspectives in understanding the Bible.

Introduction
I. Postcolonial construals
1. Charting the aftermath: a review of postcolonial criticism
2. Redress, regeneration, redemption: a survey of biblical interpretation
3. Coding and decoding: postcolonial theory and biblical interpretation
4. Convergent trajectories? Liberation hermeneutics and postcolonial biblical criticism
II. Postcolonial preoccupations
5. The version on which the sun never sets: the English Bible and its authorizing tendencies
6. Blotting the master's copy: locating bible translations
7. Hermeneutics in transit: diaspora and interpretations
Afterword
Bibliography

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R. S. Sugirtharajah is a Reader in Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham.His publications include The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters, The Postcolonial Bible, Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism, and is general editor of The Bible and Postcolonialism series (Sheffield Academic Press).

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Special Features

  • provides practical examples of the application of postcolonial criticism to biblical interpretation
  • charts biblical scholarship from colonial times to the present
  • discusses the political and ideological function of the King James Bible of 1611
  • debates the effects of diasporic experience and the Bible
  • highlights the impact of postcolonial criticism on liberation hermeneutics