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11 - Postcolonial Interpretation

from Part II - Frameworks/Stances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2022

By
Jin Young Choi
Edited by
Ian Boxall  and
Bradley C. Gregory
Ian Boxall
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Bradley C. Gregory
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

This chapter introduces key concepts in postcolonial studies and discusses recent developments of postcolonial criticism within biblical studies, such as empire studies, liberation hermeneutics, and cultural studies, including materialist, race/ethnicity, feminist, and queer approaches to empire and colonialism.

Keywords

postcolonialismempireliberationintersectionality
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The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation , pp. 210 - 227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Davidson, Steed Vernyl. “Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective.” Brill Research Perspective in Biblical Interpretation 2.3 (2017): 1–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dube, Musa W. Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. St. Louis: Chalice, 2000.Google Scholar
Dube, Musa W., and Staley, Jeffrey L., eds. John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space and Power. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2002.Google Scholar
Gossai, Hemchand, ed. Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament. London: T&T Clark, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moore, Stephen D. Empire and Apocalypse: Postcolonialism and the New Testament. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2006.Google Scholar
Moore, Stephen D., and Segovia, Fernando F., eds. Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary Intersections. London: T&T Clark, 2005.Google Scholar
Segovia, Fernando F., and Sugirtharajah, R. S., eds. A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings. New York: T&T Clark, 2007.Google Scholar
Stanley, Christopher D. The Colonized Apostle: Paul through Postcolonial Eyes. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sugirtharajah, R. S. Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sugirtharajah, R. S., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190888459.001.0001.Google Scholar

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