Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

Fernando F. Segovia is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Stephen Moore is Professor of New Testament, Drew University, New Jersey.

• 1. 'Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Meanderings and Intersections'; 2. 'Mapping the Postcolonial Optic for Biblical Criticism: Meaning and Scope'. 3. 'Questions of Biblical Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree outside Delhi; or, the Postcolonial and the Postmodern'; 4. 'Gospel Hauntings: The Postcolonial Demons of New Testament Criticism'; 5. 'Margins and (Cutting-) Edges: On the (II) Legitimacy and Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and (Post) Colonialism'; 6. 'Marx, Postcolonialism, and the Bible'; 7. 'Very Limited Ideological Options'.

"'The assemblage of biblical scholars who have contributed to this book is its major strength. These are all well published authors, most of whom have spent decades traversing the theoretical underpinnings of various critical approaches to the Bible - poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, ideological criticism, feminism, and race/ethnicity, before turning to postcolonialism... for many biblical scholars, most of whom may be just beginning to reflect on concepts such as hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence, dislocation, diaspora, colonialism, and the like, this book should find a ready reading audience. The authors have a firm grasp of the issues at stake in interpreting the Bible along postcolonial lines. The book deserves to be read widely and would be especially useful in upper-division undergraduate classes in Bible and in seminary courses dealing with hermeneutical issues.' Jeffrey L Staley, Review of Biblical Literature"