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Joe MacDonald

Reader-response Criticsm - 24 views

This approach is in direct contrast to the approach which I studied. I enjoy this approach much better, because there is room for theological interpretation. In historical criticism that is not t...

Reader-response

started by Mary Price on 16 Feb 10 6 follow-ups, last by Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10
suesaldin

WHEN THE TEXT IS THE PROBLEM: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH TO BIBLICAL PEDAGOGY - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • Postcolonial biblical critics use a multilayered biblical hermeneutic, one that emphasizes "the demythologization of the biblical authority, the demystification of the use of the Bible, and the construction of new models of interpretation of the Bible" (Kwok 1995, 30). Fernando Segovia, a postcolonial New Testament scholar, for example, argues that there are three different and equally important worlds that readers of the Bible should investigate and analyze: the world of the text, the world of modernity, and the world of today (Segovia 2002, 119-132).
  • Questions about culture, ideology, and power are sine qua non (quibus, really) for understanding the text.
  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    Examines postcolonial Biblical criticism as it applies to teaching the Bible. Provides a succinct overview of this approach to reading the Bible. Includes an analysis of the story of Hagar and Sarah that examines the sociopolitical context of the writer, traditional modern interpretations and concludes that Hagar and Sarah are examples of courageous, marginalized women in a patriarchal society who are able to maintain their dignity. Contrasts this reading with a feminist interpretation.
suesaldin

Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations (Bible ... - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    Examines three ways the Bible has been interpreted in Asia historically: "Orientalist," "Anglicist" and "Nativist." The table of contents indicates that the author advocates "textual cleansing" and a "postcolonial translation strategy" for the multifaith culture of Asia.
Aaron Pope

The interpretation of dreams - Google Books - 0 views

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psychoanalytic

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  • Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10
     
    Sigmund Freud's Book where he discusses and lays out the analytic interpretive process and psychoanalysis. An interesting read for anyone wanting to look into the origins of "Freudian Criticism" or psychoanalytic criticism. It is the full text.
suesaldin

Customer Reviews: Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World - 0 views

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  • Western colonial governments and missionary movements over centuries brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to many parts of the world. At the turn of this new century, with most African, Asian, and South American countries having gained independence from their former colonists, Third World Christians struggle with a heritage of Western theology, expectations, and abuses. New generations in a maturing church are questioning the need for Christ's message to be filtered through, and approved by, Western scholarship. With some sense of hurt and resentment, yet with a desire to effectively bring the gospel to their own peoples, Third World theologians support creative biblical hermeneutics that fit their cultures. This book is a collection of thirty-four writings by authors from twenty-two countries.
  • Many writers want to interpret Christ in ways that honor ancient, rich cultures that may have been crushed by colonization or rejected as evil by early missionaries. Others simply want the message of the Bible to be embraced by needy people of their country: the overwhelming theme of the book is that our God notices, loves, and defends the marginalized - that is, poor, oppressed, and powerless people.
  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    This review reflects in straightforward language the need for and goal of postcolonial criticism. It seems that the writer's faith is renewed and enlarged by this approach to reading the text.
Michael Hemenway

Postcolonial Biblical Criticism - 10 views

Sue, this is a marvelous summary of a complicated approach. thanks. Dube is a marvelous read!

Postcolonial

started by suesaldin on 16 Feb 10 1 follow-up, last by Michael Hemenway on 17 Feb 10
Joe MacDonald

Queer Theory - 34 views

Sterling, I really appreciate your point of view and am grateful you are challenging us to examine these texts. You are not being adversarial at all; please continue to challenge our thinking. Mary

queer theory

started by traci_shahan on 15 Feb 10 17 follow-ups, last by Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10
suesaldin

Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible: Musa W. Dube - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    Presents an alternative approach to reading the Bible that addresses the issues and needs of women in the "two-thirds world." Extended examination of Matthew that "shows us how to read the Bible as decolonizing rather than imperialist literature."
suesaldin

Sugirtharajah: Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretat - Oxford University Press - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    "In this stimulating study, R. S. Sugirtharajah explores the implications of postcolonial criticism for biblical studies. He provides a comprehensive overview of the origins, definitions, and procedures of postcolonial criticism, followed by a discussion of the significance of postcolonial criticism in biblical interpretation. He reveals how postcolonial criticism can offer an alternative perspective to our understanding of the Bible, and how, when the Bible has been deployed as a Western cultural icon, it has come to be questioned in new ways. " This book provides an overview of postcolonial Biblical criticism from a leading scholar - may be heavy going but is recommended for interested lay readers.
suesaldin

Postcolonial biblical criticism in South Africa: Some mind and road mapping - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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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 exposĂ© and with restoration and transformation.
  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    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.
suesaldin

Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World: R. S. Sugirtharajah:... - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    "Professional scholars and ordinary people contribute to this book, which is written from the perspective of those in the Third World. Writing from an experience of injustice and oppression, hunger and exploitation, they explore issues of racism and sexism, class struggle and religious triumphalism." Although not explicitly focused on postcolonial criticism, I think the voices of lay people might bring some issues that postcolonial criticism addresses into sharper focus and provide a sense of what this approach to reading the text means in real lives. I have included a review of this book in the bibliography.
Brenda Goodman

Amazon.com: Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context (004644201233... - 0 views

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Feminist

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  • Brenda Goodman on 17 Feb 10
     
    Another good resource for feminist biblical criticism.
Micah Hemenway

The Bible and Interpretation - 2 views

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memory cultural religion interpretation

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  • Cultural or collective memory (also known as “social memory”) has become a major issue of the last fifty years in several fields. The concept originated within sociology but has more recently taken in psychology and history (see especially Zerubavel E, 2003; Zerubavel Y., 2005) to become an interdisciplinary area of investigation (see Middleton and Edwards, 1990).
  • Micah Hemenway on 09 Feb 10
     
    Phil Davies on Cultural Memory
  • Micah Hemenway on 09 Feb 10
     
    Phil is a bit polemical, but this is a good intro.
Joe MacDonald

Historical Criticism - 1 views

Biblical historical-criticism is an exegetical approach to study that is mainly concerned with the factual evidence of the culture in which the text originated. Those who utilize this type of crit...

historical criticism

started by Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10 no follow-up yet
Schawn Kellogg

Mark as story: an introduction to ... - Google Books - 0 views

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narrative story introduction

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  • Schawn Kellogg on 17 Feb 10
     
    Views Mark as a story, not with an agenda of interpretation but to show how narrative criticism can illuminate a text
suesaldin

A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings - 0 views

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Postcolonial

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  • It places the reality and ramifications of imperial-colonial frameworks and relations at the centre of biblical criticism.
  • They show, among other things, how texts and interpretations construct and/or relate to their respective imperial-colonial contexts
  • suesaldin on 16 Feb 10
     
    Series of essays with a focus on the New Testament, edited by two prominent scholars in postcolonial criticism. In the chapter by Sze-kar Wan, The Letter to the Galatians, he explores the ethnic tension in the letter and the dangers of over-simplification when examining ethnic categories such as Jewish and Gentile. He further discusses how "Roman imperial discourse was ... revised and appropriated for the use of the Jerusalem Jesus-movement." A focus on how empire shapes a minority community and the power dynamics within the community itself. Bibliography could be expanded by examining the work of the individual authors.
Schawn Kellogg

Biblical criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views

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narrative

shared by Schawn Kellogg on 11 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Narrative criticism is one of a number of modern forms of criticism based in contemporary literary theory and practice - in this case, from narratology. In common with other literary approaches (and in contrast to historical forms of criticism), narrative criticism treats the text as a unit, and focusses on narrative structure and composition, plot development, themes and motifs, characters and characterisation.[14] Narrative criticism is a complex field, but some central concerns include the reliability of the narrator, the question of authorial intent (expressed in terms of the context in which the text was written and its presumed intended audience), and the implications of multiple interpretation (meaning an awareness that a narrative is capable of more than one i
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      Schawn Kellogg on 11 Feb 10
       
      a nice introductory description
Mandy Todd Moore

Biblical Interpretation: An ... - Google Books - 1 views

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redaction

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      Mandy Todd Moore on 15 Feb 10
       
      Tate discusses the four concerns of redaction criticism.
  • Mandy Todd Moore on 15 Feb 10
     
    Nice example of redaction applied to Mark 8:27-33 and Luke 9: 18-22
Schawn Kellogg

Biblical Interpretation: An ... - Google Books - 0 views

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narrative author story

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  • Schawn Kellogg on 14 Feb 10
     
    section on narrative criticsm. Good discussion on narrative world not being identical to the real world; implied author shaping story world by selecting (and excluding) events.
Carlene Hill

Canonical Criticism - 31 views

I agree, Steve, which is why I asked the question about our understanding having a limit. I, too, believe we continue to learn through human-God interactions today. Martin Luther King Jr. is an exa...

canonical criticism

started by Marcus Carlson on 16 Feb 10 12 follow-ups, last by Carlene Hill on 22 Feb 10
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