Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Foreword -- Works cited -- Chapter 3: The Exodus Story as a Foundation of the God of the "Fathers" -- The Exodus tradition as a foundation for European colonialism --...
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Postcolonial commentary and the Old Testament] (2019) (Van der Zwan, Pieter)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Gossai, Hemchand: Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2018. - 9780567680952 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Foreword -- Works cited -- Chapter 3: The Exodus Story as a Foundation of the God of the "Fathers" -- The Exodus tradition as a foundation for European colonialism -- The Exodus tradition as a foundation for Latin American liberation theology -- The Exodus tradition: A postcolonial reading -- God's genocidal plagues: A show of power to induce submission -- Israelites leave Egypt as Yahweh's Looters -- The Passover: A remembrance of God's deliverance or God's genocide? -- Delivered or recolonized? The imagined community of Yahweh's "delivered" people -- Tracing Yahweh's leadership of "deliverance"/imperial control -- To "hell" with Moses and Yahweh: Rebellion or a search for a second liberation? -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 4: Leviticus -- Introduction -- Important themes -- About the author: The descendant of US colonizers but a woman -- Biblical commentary -- Lev. 1:1-7:38 -- Voluntary and required sacrifices and offerings of the people (1:1-6:7) -- The role of the priests in the people's sacrifices (6:8-7:38) -- Lev. 8:1-10:20 -- Lev. 11:1-15:33 -- Childbirth and purification (12:1-8) -- Skin diseases: Varieties and symptoms (13:1-14:57) -- Penile discharges (15:1-33) -- Lev. 16:1-34 -- Lev. 17:1-26:46 -- Prohibited sexual practices (18:1-30) -- The life of holiness (19:1-37) -- Penalties for violations of right conduct (20:1-27) -- Regulations for priests (21:1-24) -- Holy things and priestly responsibility (22:1-33) -- Holy times and sacred seasons (23:1-44) -- Miscellaneous laws (24:1-23) -- Sabbath and Jubilee years (25:1-55) -- Blessings and curses (26:1-46) -- Lev. 27:1-34 -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 5: Numbing Numbers: Land and People of the Wilderness -- Postcolonize how? Reading from the edges: Framing talanoa -- Wilderness: A land with eyes -- Wilderness: A home -- Numbing Numbers -- Works cited -- Chapter 6: Numbers -- Introduction -- A gendered venture: The devaluing and dispossession of women -- Anti-conquest ideology: The vulnerability and innocence of Israel (10:11-25:18) -- Anti-conquest ideology in Israelite and non-Israelite encounters in the wilderness -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 7: The Empire, the Local, and its Mediators: Deuteronomy -- Book religion -- On track of the empire? -- The land and the central place -- Postcolonialism and the function of utopia -- Works cited -- Chapter 8: Judges: Subaltern Women -- Introduction -- Resolviendo: The ongoing struggle for survival in Cuba today -- The story of Jael: Judg. 4:1-23 -- Jael and resolver: The struggle for life -- The story of Jephthah and his daughter: Judg. 10:6-12:7 -- Jephthah's daughter -- Jephthah and his daughter's resolver -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 9: Judges -- Introduction -- Postcolonialism and identity formation in the book of Judges -- Postcolonial reading strategies for the book of Judges: Ambivalence, mimicry, and hybridity -- Judges 4: Deborah, Jael, Barak, and Sisera -- Crises of gendered identity: Internal oppression and the desire for power -- Deborah and Barak -- Judges 13-16: Samson -- Judges 19-21: Colonial mimicry and intratribal war -- Conclusions and directions for further study -- Works cited -- Chapter 10: Subaltern Existence as the Path to Perfect Empire: Wisdom of Solomon -- Introduction and method -- Setting -- Genre, audience, purpose -- Tracing the contours of identity in Wisdom -- Gaius' images in synagogues -- The Roman emperor cult -- Responding to wisdom -- Works cited -- Chapter 11: The Empire of Solomon: An Analysis of Imperial Rhetoric in 1 Kings 3-11 Part I A survey of central research themes -- Part II A postcolonial analysis -- Works cited -- Chapter 12: The Chronicler's Narrative on Saul (1 Chron. 10:1-14): A Decolonial Reading of Chronicles -- Introduction -- Chronicles as a colonial text -- What is meant by decoloniality? -- Coloniality of knowledge in Chronicles -- Chronicles' public transcript and utopia -- Saul in 1 Chron. 10:1-14 -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 13: Nehemiah -- Between two regimes -- Peoples of the land -- Modes of resistance -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 14: Esther on Trial: Resistance or "Collaboration Horizontale"? -- Still postcolonial readings of scripture? -- Contexts for reading Esther -- Collaboration and controversy -- Collaboration and resistance in Esther -- Esther, collaboration, and Judith: Trial by story? -- Problems with the agency of Esther in Est. 2:8 (MT) -- Esther and "horizontal collaboration" -- Esther as symbol of danger for Jews in the diaspora -- Conclusions? -- . . . and what of Judith? -- Works cited -- Chapter 15: The Enthronement Psalms: The Poetic Metanarrative of Imperialism -- Introduction -- Enthronement psalms -- Kingship of Yahweh -- Geography and empire -- Enthronement psalms and empire -- Enthronement psalms and colonial interpretations -- Concluding remarks -- Works cited -- Chapter 16: The Empire and First Isaiah -- Meaning of the term "empire" -- Image of Assyria in First Isaiah -- Resistance to the empire in some key Isaianic passages -- The Syro-Ephraimite crisis -- Revolt of Ashdod -- Source and implications of the portrayal -- Works cited -- Chapter 17: Jeremiah's Welfare Ethic: Challenging Imperial Militarism -- Introduction -- Justice and a just society -- שלום as subversive action in exile -- Changing the rules of engagement -- Subverting the dominant culture -- Facing new realities -- Looking to the future Works cited -- Chapter 18: The Collecting Impulse in Lamentations: Postcolonial Traumata Made Miniature in Word-Objects -- The postcolonial otherness of Lamentations -- The acrostic collections of Lamentations -- An acrostic collection of female erotica in Lamentations 1 -- An acrostic collection of divine relics in Lamentations 2 -- An acrostic collection of warrior memorabilia in Lamentations 3 -- A bicola collection of personalia in Lamentations 5 -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 19: Jonah -- Prophetic exceptionalism -- Spaces of exception -- Bodies of exception -- Exceptional violence -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Chapter 20: Reading Nahum with the Oppressed: Power as a Social Justice Issue -- Introduction -- Point of departure -- Discussion of key concepts -- Proposed reading strategy -- Nahum 1:9-15 (MT 1:9-2:1): Calamity for the enemy, salvation for Judah -- Observations and conclusions -- Works cited -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 0567680967 |