Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword--Collin Cowan--Preface--1.Negotiating, with Scripture and Resistance Jione Havea--DARE TO REREAD--2.Ephphatha! DARE to be Opened! Scripture, its Civil War and Shakenness Graham J. Adams--3.The People against the Empire: Biblical Understandings Nestor Miguez--4.The Text Collectors: White Dutch Biblical Appropriation Janneke Stegeman--5.Gemma Augustea, Imperial Paradox, and the Matthean Resistance Raj Nadella--6.Cornelius the Centurion meets the Ethiopian Eunuch, in a Jeepney Revelation Enriques Velunta--7.The Oppressor has Ceased Rogelio Dario BarolinDARE TO RESIST--8.A Decolonial Reading of Ephesians: For Resisting the Postcolonial Empire Jin Young Choi--9.Using the Bible to Resist Empire in the Caribbean's Jamaica Stephen C.A. Jennings--10."Love Your Neighbor as Yourself": A Call to Resist and Transform Economic Empire Cynthia Moe-Lobeda--11.The Bible: Globalized Commodity in the New Strategies of Neocolonialism Nancy Cardoso Pereira--12.Scripture as a Site of Struggle: Literary and Socio-historical Resources for Prophetic Theology in Post-colonial, Post-apartheid (Neo-colonial?) South Africa Gerald O. West--13.Views, Voices, and Choices: Reading Readers of Luke-Acts and Empire Tat-siong Benny Liew