Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism

by R.S. Sugirtharajah and R.S. Sugirtharajah

The volume contributes a postcolonial perspective to such topics as textual production, commentarial writings and translations in colonial times, and then moves on to inspect Eurocentric notions embedded in current western biblical interpretation especially in projects such as "Jesus Research." It also contains an overview of and introduction to one of the most challenging and controversial theories of our time, postcolonialism--a theory that gives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850759731
• ISBN13: 9781850759737
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"