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Author Punt, J. (Jeremy)

Title Postcolonial biblical interpretation : reframing Paul / by Jeremy Punt
Published Boston : Brill, 2015

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Series Studies in theology and religion ; v. 20
Studies in theology and religion ; v. 20.
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
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
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
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)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Bible -- Postcolonial criticism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008530
Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Postcolonial criticism
Bible fast
Bible. Epistles of Paul fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Paul's Letters.
Postcolonial criticism of sacred works
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Christianity.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004288461
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