Bøker i Bible and Postcolonialism-serien

Written by scholars of Hispanic, African, Jewish, Chinese, Korean and African-American origin, these essays connect postcolonialism and John's Gospel, exploring its use in settler communities of the United States and Canada, and the colonization of Africa, Asia, Latin America and New Zealand.

Features a comprehensive application of postcolonial criticism to the biblical texts, with its focus on the entire corpus of the New Testament. This book places the reality and ramifications of imperial-colonial frameworks and relations at the centre of biblical criticism.

This volume aims to explore the implications of post colonial theory, one of the most challenging and contentious critical categories of our time - for biblical texts and interpretation.

Postcolonial studies have made significant inroads into biblical studies, giving rise to numerous conference papers, articles, essays and books. This book offers an introduction to postcolonial biblical criticism and probes it from a number of different but interrelated angles to bring it into focus, so that its promise can be better appreciated.