Contextual biblical hermeneutics as multicentric dialogue: towards a Singaporean reading of Daniel
Introduction: reading the Bible in Asia today -- Challenges that confront any attempt to construct a contextual hermeneutic -- Reading and nonspecialist readers: raising consciousness -- Reading and the other: a framework for conversation -- Making connections -- Reading Daniel 1 in the classroom of...
| Published in: | Biblical interpretation series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation series (volume 175)
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| Series/Journal: | Biblical interpretation series
volume 175 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Azariah
/ Hermeneutics
/ Intertextuality
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Multiculturalism
Religious aspects
Christianity
B Bible. Daniel Criticism, interpretation, etc (Singapore) B Bible. Daniel Reader-response criticism B Thesis |
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| Summary: | Introduction: reading the Bible in Asia today -- Challenges that confront any attempt to construct a contextual hermeneutic -- Reading and nonspecialist readers: raising consciousness -- Reading and the other: a framework for conversation -- Making connections -- Reading Daniel 1 in the classroom of national education -- Braving the furnace of the lion's den in the lion city -- Whose dreams? -- Daniel: from the ancient Near East to Singapore -- Conclusion: possible futures for Bible and Asia?. "In this book, Stephen Lim offers a contextual way of reading biblical texts that shifts the understanding of context from its ontological dimensions to a spatial conception of a geopolitical space entangled with the intercontextual arena of the modern/colonial world system and intracontextual networks of knowledge production. His proposed multicentric dialogue then brings together a conscientisation of the specialist readers' positionality in relation to nonspecialist readers and a rethinking of dialoguing with the Other that brings in interlocutors who are contextually determined. This is applied to his context in Singapore through a reading of Daniel where perspectives from western biblical scholarship, Asian traditions and Singaporean cultural products are brought together to dialogue on issues of transformative praxis and identity formation"-- |
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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--King's College London, 2016, titled Asian biblical hermeneutics as multicentric dialogue : towards a Singaporean way of reading Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004395075 |