Postcolonial biblical criticism in South Africa: Some mind and road mapping - 0 views
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Postcolonial biblical criticism can best be described as a variety of hermeneutical approaches characterised by their political nature and ideological agenda, and whose textual politics ultimately concerns both a hermeneutic of suspicion and hermeneutic of retrieval or restoration. It interacts with colonial history and its aftermath(s), which concerns both a history of repression and of repudiation, but it also deals with exposé and with restoration and transformation.
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This article looks fascinating to me for several reasons. First, it focuses on South Africa where historically a huge percentage of the population was marginalized. Second, the church was instrumental in bringing an end to apartheid. Finally, it highlights one of the critiques of postcolonial Biblical interpretation, the lack of political action because of the focus on textual politics. New Testament.
