TY - BOOK AU - Sugirtharajah,R.S.,ed TI - Voices from the margin: interpreting the Bible in the third world SN - 9781626982055 AV - BS 476 .V65 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Maryknoll, New York PB - Orbis Books KW - Bible KW - Hermeneutics KW - Comparative studies KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Christianity KW - Developing countries KW - Christianity and culture N1 - 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 ER -