Voices from the margin : interpreting the Bible in the third world /

Voices from the margin : interpreting the Bible in the third world / edited by R.S. Sugirtharajah. - 25th annivesary ed. - Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, 2016. - 623 p.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: pt. 1 Reading strategies The Bible and the 500 years of conquest/ Elsa Tamez Re-reading for liberation: African American women and the Bible/ Renita J. Weems Marxist critical tools: are they helpful in breaking the stranglehold if idealist hermeneutics/ Jose Miguez-Bonino Developments in biblical interpretation in Africa: historical and hermeneutical directions/ Justin S. Ukpong Five Smooth stones: reading the Bible through aboriginal eyes/ Graham Paulson and Mark Brett Reading Islandly/ Jione Havea Modern Chinese attitudes towards the Bible/ Chen Jianming Dalits, Bible and method/ Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon Postcolonial biblical criticism/ R.S. Sugirtharajah pt. 2 Subaltern Readings Jesus and Minjung in the gospel of Mark/ Ahn Byung-Mu Rereading the Bible with dispersed migrants and disempowered indigenous people/ A. Maria Arul Raja Anti-greed and anti-pride: Mark 10.17-27 and 10.35--45 in the light of tribal values/ George M. Soares-Prabhu The Cornelius story in the Japanese cultural context/ Hisao Kayama The forgiveness of debts in Matthew and Luke: for an economy without exclusions/ Ivoni Richter Reimer Wickedness in the place of justice and righteousness: a reading of ecclesiastes 3: 16-17 in response to court's ban for malaysian Christians publications to use the word Allah/ Elaine W. F.Goh Voices of the Whenua: Engaging 1 Kings 21 through Maori Lens/ Nasili Vaka'uta pt. 3 Many readings : Exodus A Latin American perspective: the option for the poor in the Old Testament/ George V. Pixley and Clodovis Boff An Asian Feminist perspective: the option for the poor in the Old Testament/ George V. Pixley and Clodovis Boff A Palestinian feminist perspective: the Exodus story (Exodus 1.8-- 22; 2.1--10)/ An Asian Group work A Palestinian perspective: biblical perspectives on the land/ Naim S. Ateek A Native American perspective: Canaanites, cowboys, and Indians/ Robert Allen Warrior Exodus-toward-Egypt: Filipino-Americans; struggle to realize the promised land in America/ Eleazar S. Fernandez Let my people go! threads of Exodus in African American narratives/ Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan pt. 4 Postcolonial readings Returning to China: biblical interpretation in postcolonial HongKong/ Archie C.C. Lee Reading for decolonization (John 4.1--42)/ Musa W. Dube Making waves: the Woman's Bible in the wake of Chinese American feminist sensibilities/ Tat-siong Benny Liew Is there an "anticonquest" ideology in the Book of Judges?/ Uriah Y. Kim pt. 5 Intertextual readings Two mission commands: an interpretation of Matthew 28.16--20 in the light of a Buddhist text/ George M. Soares-Prabhu The Book of Ecclesiastes and Thai Buddhism/ Seree Lorgunpai Interpreting John 14.6 in a religiiously plural society/ S. Wesley Ariarajah The rhetorical hermeneutic of 1 Corinthians 8 and Chinese ancestor worship/ Khiok-Khng Yeo The aggressive brothers versus the victimized orphan/ Layang Seng Ja On Developing liberation theology in Islam/ Asghar Ali Engineer Wrestling in the night/ Samuel Rayan pt. 6 Peoples as exegetes: popular readings A Brazilian example: listening to what the spirit is saying to the churches'-- popular interpretation of the bible in Brazil/ Carlos Mesters A Malawian example: The Bible and non-literate communities/ Patrick A. Kalilombe A Nicaraguan example: the Alabaster bottle-- Matthew 26.6--13 An Indonesian example: the miraculous catch-- Luke 5.1-11 Toward a post-apartheid black feminist reading of the Bible: a case of Luke 2.36-38/ Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie Afterword: marginal mappers, eternal outsiders: twenty-five years of voices from the margin/ R.S. Sugirtharajah

9781626982055


Bible--Hermeneutics--Comparative studies
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Christianity--Developing countries
Christianity and culture

BS 476 / .V65 2016
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