| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 217 pages) |
| Series |
Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; volume 175 |
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Biblical interpretation series ; v. 175.
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| Contents |
Introduction: reading the Bible in Asia today -- Challenges that confront any attempt to construct a contextual hermeneutic -- Reading and nonspecialist readers: raising consciousness -- Reading and the other: a framework for conversation -- Making connections -- Reading Daniel 1 in the classroom of national education -- Braving the furnace of the lion's den in the lion city -- Whose dreams? -- Daniel: from the ancient Near East to Singapore -- Conclusion: possible futures for Bible and Asia? |
| Summary |
"In this book, Stephen Lim offers a contextual way of reading biblical texts that shifts the understanding of context from its ontological dimensions to a spatial conception of a geopolitical space entangled with the intercontextual arena of the modern/colonial world system and intracontextual networks of knowledge production. His proposed multicentric dialogue then brings together a conscientisation of the specialist readers' positionality in relation to nonspecialist readers and a rethinking of dialoguing with the Other that brings in interlocutors who are contextually determined. This is applied to his context in Singapore through a reading of Daniel where perspectives from western biblical scholarship, Asian traditions and Singaporean cultural products are brought together to dialogue on issues of transformative praxis and identity formation"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--King's College London, 2017, titled Asian Biblical hermeneutics as multicentric dialogue : towards a Singaporean way of reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2020) |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Daniel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Singapore
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Bible. Daniel -- Reader-response criticism
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Bible. Daniel fast |
| Subject |
Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Prophets.
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Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Reader-response criticism
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Singapore
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019015026 |
| ISBN |
9789004399259 |
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9004399259 |
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