Interpreting beyond borders / edited by Fernando F. Segovia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Segovia, Fernando F., editor.

Series:

Bible and postcolonialism ; 3.

The Bible and Postcolonialism ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture.

Hermeneutics.

Postcolonialism.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses a fundamental reality of our time: the great movement of people, for a variety of reasons, within and across countries and cultures. From this migration has emerged the ''diasporic intellectual'': the state of dislocation and displacement has become a vantage point for reflection and interpretation. The same is true of theological studies in general and biblical criticism in particular. In this masterly treatment, Fernando Segovia focuses on the emerging transborder biblical interpreters from the Two-Thirds World now residing and working in the West, both in the United Stat

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Interpreting beyond Borders: Postcolonial Studies and Diasporic Studies in Biblical Criticism; Part I: Reading Diaspora; Gustavo Gutiérrez Goes to Disneyland: Theme Park Theologies and the Diaspora of the Discourse of the Popular Theologian in Liberation Theology; Reading-Across: Intercultural Criticism and Textual Posture; My Hermeneutical Journey and Daily Journey into Hermeneutics: Meaning-Making and Biblical Interpretation in the North American Diaspora

Does Diaspora Identity Imply Some Sort of Universality? An Asian-American Reading of GalatiansPart II: Reading from the Diaspora; Hyphenating Joseph: A View of Genesis 39-41 from the Cuban Diaspora; Subversive Promises and the Creation of a Parallel Sphere: Divine Encounters with Hagar and Rebekah; Diasporic Reading of a Diasporic Text: Identity Politics and Race Relations and the Book of Esther; Hermeneutics of the Bible and ''Cricket as Text'': Reading as an Exile; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9780567011961

0567011968

OCLC:

893331139