Reading other-wise : socially engaged biblical scholars reading with their local communities / edited by Gerald O. West.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

West, Gerald O.

Series:

Semeia studies (Brill Academic Publishers) ; no. 62.

Semeia studies ; no. 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Theology.

Physical Description:

vii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Contents:

Ye ma wo mo! African hermeneuts, you have spoken at last: reflections on Semeia 73 (1996) / Eric Anum

"Dear God! Give us our daily leftovers and we will be able to forgive those who trouble our souls": some perspectives on conversational biblical hermeneutics and theologies / Mogomme Alpheus Masoga

(Ac)claiming the (extra)ordinary African "reader" of the Bible / Gerald O. West

"Ordinary" reading in "extraordinary" times: a Jamaican love story / Stephen C.A. Jennings

Who was Hagar? Mistress, divorcee, exile, or exploited worker: an analysis of contemporary grassroots readings of Genesis 16 by Caucasian, Latina, and Black South African women / Nicole M. Simopoulos

Remembering the Bible as a critical "pedagogy of the oppressed" / Janet Lees

Journeying with Moses toward true solidarity: shifting social and narrative locations of the oppressed and their liberators in Exodus 2-3 / Bob Ekblad

"How could he ever do that to her?!" or, how the woman who anointed Jesus became a victim of Luke's redactional and theological principles / Monika Ottermann

Bible and citizenship / Valmor da Silva

The Bible in British urban theology: an analysis by a Finnish companion / Kari Latvus

Reading other-wise / Naveen Rao

Growing together: challenges and chances in the encounter of critical and intuitive interpreters of the Bible / Werner Kahl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168).

ISBN:

9004157336

9789004157330

OCLC:

123967921