Reading other-wise: socially engaged biblical scholars reading with their local communities
By: edited by Gerald O. West.
Contributors: West, Gerald O.
Series: Semeia studies -- v. 62
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004157330
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ye ma wo mo! African hermeneuts, you have spoken at last: reflections on semeia 73 (1996) / Eric Anum; title: "Dear God! give us our daily leftovers and we will be able to forgive those who trouble our souls": some perspectives on conversational biblical hermeneutics and theologies / Mogomme Alpheus Masoga; title: (Ac)claiming the (extra)ordinary African "reader" of the Bible / Gerald O. West; title: "Ordinary" reading in "extraordinary" times: a Jamaican love story / Stephen C.A. Jennings; title: Who was Hagar? mistress, divorcee, exile, or exploited worker: an analysis of contemporary grassroots readings of Genesis 16 by Caucasian, Latina, and Black South African women / Nicole M. Simopoulos; title: Remembering the Bible as a critical "pedagogy of the oppressed" / Janet Lees; title: Journeying with Moses toward true solidarity: shifting social and narrative locations of the oppressed and their liberators in Exodus 2-3 / Bob Ekblad; title: "How could he ever do that to her?!" or, how the woman who anointed Jesus became a victim of Luke's redactional and theological principles / Monika Ottermann; title: Bible and citizenship / Valmor da Silva; title: The Bible in British urban theology: an analysis by a Finnish companion / Kari Latvus; title: Responses. Reading other-wise / Naveen Rao; title: Growing together: challenges and chances in the encounter of critical and intuitive interpreters of the Bible / Werner Kahl.