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Postcolonial commentary and the Old Testament /
This is the first volume to provide a wide range of postcolonial interpretations of and commentaries upon significant texts in the Hebrew Bible. The volume intersects with the work of the key theorists in postcolonial studies such as Fanon, Senghor, Said and Spivak as well as with scholars such as S...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
T & T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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" peopleTracing 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 utopiaWorks 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.