The Bible and Asia : from the pre-Christian era to the postcolonial age /

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Though the Bible is a product of West Asia, its influence on Europe and the Americas has received far more attention than its complex career in the East. R.S. Sugirtharajah corrects this imbalance with an expansive new study of Asia's subversive and idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sugirtharajah, R. S. (Rasiah S.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Asia.
Bible > Critique, interprétation, etc. > Asie.
Bible
BIBLES > General.
RELIGION > Biblical Reference > General.
RELIGION > Biblical Reference > Handbooks.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Asia
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Merchandise, moralities, and poetics of Aryans, Dravidians, and Israelites
  • 2. Colonial bureaucrats and the search for older testaments
  • 3. Enlisting Christian texts for protest in the empire
  • 4. A Buddhist ascetic and his maverick misreadings of the Bible
  • 5. Paul the Roman in Asia
  • 6. Exegesis in Eastern climes
  • 7. Between the lines of Asian fiction
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index of scriptural references
  • General index.

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