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Hyphenating Moses : a postcolonial exegesis of identity in Exodus 1:1-3:15 /
Postcolonial biblical criticism took shape, largely, by critiquing the book of Exodus. Because of the eventual dispossession of Canaanites in the conquest narratives, so goes the thinking, the Hebrews' God amounts to little more than a dangerous, destructive, and ethnocentric figure. In Hyphena...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
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| Colección: | Biblical interpretation series ;
v. 154. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Pitfalls and Possibilities in Exodus; Introduction; The Trouble with Interpreting Exodus from the Margins; Redeploying Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: A Middle Way; Conclusion; Chapter 1. The Contours of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism; Introduction; The Features of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism; A Critique of Interpretive Authority: Reacting to Euroamerican Hegemony in Biblical Studies; A Critique of Classical Pan-Liberationist Theology: Similarities and Divergences
- A Critique of Temporal Fixity: The Issue of HyphenizationInterrogation and Reclamation: The Bible in Postcolonial Biblical Criticism; Contrapuntal Reading; Re-conceptualizing Identity as Hybridity; From Hermeneutical Symphony to Hermeneutical Jazz: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism; Conclusion; Chapter 2. An Incomplete Picture: The Book of Exodus in Postcolonial Discourse; Introduction; Edward W. Said on Exodus; Robert Allen Warrior on Exodus; Musa W. Dube on Exodus; Gale A. Yee on Exodus; Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Identity under Construction: Contrasting Pharaonic Exclusivism with Hybridic Resistance (Exodus 1:1-2:10)Introduction; Identity as Difference: Pharaoh's Binary Ideology (Exodus 1:1-14); Pharaoh's Animalizing Rhetoric; Pharaoh's Effacement of the Hyphenated; Pharaoh's Use of Hyperbole and Exclusivist Pronouns; Pharaoh's Counterfeit Collectivity; Pharaoh's Successful Racialization of Egypt; Identity as Commodity: Pharaoh's Assimilationist and Ethnocentric Tactics (Exodus 1:15-16)
- Identity Re-defined: Difference as a Tool for Resistance and the Midwives' Hybridic Way (Exodus 1:17-19)Identity Re-entrenched: Pharaoh's Ethnocentric Call to Action (Exodus 1:20-22); Identity Made Complex: The Inclusive Pliability of Pharaoh's Daughter and "Moses" (Exodus 2:1-10); Resistance Repeated and Pharaoh's Daughter Anticipated; The Royal Daughter's Sensitizing Effect; "Moses" as Linguistic Hybridization; Conclusion; Chapter 4. Identity Destruction: Moses' Quadruple Displacement (Exodus 2:11-22); Introduction