Divided into three sets of papers, these contributions range from the injustices of colonialism to postcolonial critical readings of texts, suppression and appropriation; each section complete with a responding essay. Questioning how well UK students understand Africancentred and generated approaches of biblical criticism, whether African scholars consider UK-centric criticism valid, and how accurately the western canon represents current UK based scholarship, these essays illustrate the trends and challenges faced in biblical studies in the two centres of study, and discusses how these questions are better answered with dialogue, rather than in isolation.
This work presents a dialogue between classical and contemporary Indian and postmodern thinkers. Juxtaposing the diverse perspectives of Indian philosophers and philosophies, including Buddhism, Sankara, and Radhakrishnan, and western postmodern thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida, Olson addresses topics such as desire, suffering, the self, and identity.
Easy-to-follow step-by-step guidance through Microsoft Office applications makes it ideal for self-paced learning. In recent years, attempts have been made to view the gospel of Matthew through the lens of post-colonial studies as a text of resistance against a supposedly evil Roman empire.
This study evaluates … Expand. View 1 excerpt, cites background. Difficult texts: Matthew View 2 excerpts, cites background.
Matthew, the church and anti-Semitism. This term must have had a distinctive meaning for Matthew and his readers at the time he used it in his Gospel, though … Expand. Empire-critical and postcolonial readings of Revelation are now commonplace, but scholars have not yet put these views into conversation with Jewish trauma and cultural survival strategies.
In this … Expand. Two representative trajectories of the dominant … Expand. Abstract Using a postcolonial model, this paper examines Matthew —23 in order to show that the literary and interpretation processes do not happen in a vacuum. Instead, the processes involve … Expand. Also prevalent are social-historical interests. The need to be perpetually prepared demanded levels of competence, practice, and professionalism of women such as Miriam, who thereby transcended the domestic sphere and operated in public life.
Most widely represented, however, are literary critical approaches, to which contributors turn both as primary methods of analysis and as stepping-stones to other methods. She May Live! Ilona N. Timothy K. Jan Tarlin argues that the Elijah texts can be read as a manifesto of patriarchal Yahwism; the theophany at Horeb is the climax of the male bonding between the prophet and God.
Some articles use literary method to discern an alternative story beneath the surface of the text. Philip R. Some contributors read the biblical text intertextually, that is, in light of other biblical or nonbiblical texts. Other intertextual readings examine biblical texts in the light of nonbiblical texts. Brenner examines the question of whether Jeremiah's use of female imagery is pornographic by looking at Semonides' treatise On Women, a seventh- century b.
Some feminist scholars move beyond analysis of the patriarchal elements in texts to compose midrashim, or creative interpretations, of their own. Conspicuously absent from the collection are a variety of multicultural perspectives. A sampling of the articles will illustrate only a few of the results obtained when these methods are applied to the Bible from a feminist perspective.
Many of the articles explore the biblical use of female imagery. Female imagery may also hint at women's roles in the cult. Margaret S. Odell argues that the mother of Hos. Pamela Gordon and Harold C. Amy-Jill Levine points out that the convention of representing the covenant community as a woman e. Most problematic is the use of the harlot as a symbol of the unfaithful Israelite community in relationship with God. Alice A.
Marla J. Images are explored not simply for their own sake but also for their continuing impact. A number of articles consider the role of female images in the ongoing oppression of women in particular contexts.
For this reason, she advocates eliminating this reading from the reading cycle. Critique of such interpretations is a theme that runs throughout A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament volume
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