Writing/reading the Bible in postcolonial perspective
By: Steed Vernyl Davidson
Series: Biblical interpretation; Biblical interpretation series
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9789004357662
Subjects: Postcolonial criticism; Bible
Description: Examining the legacies of European imperialism, Steed Vernyl Davidson traces how the Bible reflects strong affinities with empire and provides on-going justifications for empire and concentrations of power. Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective traces the evolution of the Bible from its production in empires of antiquity to its supportive role in the development of modern imperialism. The work also engages the ambiguities of the Bible as anti-imperial tool. Set within an examination of postcolonial studies as a revolutionary and revisionary discourse, this work presses for a more vigorous postcolonializing of the Bible in Biblical Studies. A description of the contemporary features and manifestation of empire forms the context within which further exploration of postcolonial biblical critical work can take place. Following an assessment of previous work in the field, the challenges of intersectional work with queer studies, terrorism studies, technology, and ecological studies are laid out as future tasks.
Notes: Originally published as Volume 2(3) 2017, in Brill Pesearch Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Postcolonial revolutions. Under/Standing empires; title: The politics of resisting empire; title: Writing protest; title: Concluding reflections; title: Empire and the Bible. Empire produced; title: The Bible : production and regulation; title: Texting empire; title: Historicizing the Bible in empire; title: Concluding reflections; title: Reading the insurgents. Imperializing ideologies; title: Imperial gender; title: (De)centering identities; title: Concluding reflections; title: Future transits. Postcolonially queer; title: Postcolonial terror; title: Postcolonial techne; title: Postcolonial environment; title: Concluding reflections.