The Bible and Asia: From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age

by R.S. Sugirtharajah

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. This is the story of missionaries, imperialists, exegetes, reformers, and nationalists who molded Biblical texts according to their own needs in order to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674049071
• ISBN13: 9780674049079
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"