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Scripture and Resistance
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2019
Summary
Resistance against unjust (wicked) cultures and imperial powers is at the heart of scripture. In many cases, the resistance is waged against external systems or the misappropriation of scriptural texts and traditions. In some cases, however, scripture resists oppressive cultures and powers that it also requires, certifies and protects. At other times, and in different settings, the minders of scripture speak against the abusive cultures and power systems that they inherited and whose benefits they milk.
Scripture and Resistance contains reflections by authors from East, West, South, and North — on resistance and the Christian scriptures regarding a rainbow of concerns: the colonial legacies of the Bible; the people (especially native and indigenous people) who were subjugated and minoritized for the sake of the Bible; the courage for resistance among ordinary and normal people, and the opportunities that arise from their realities and struggles; the imperializing tendencies that lurk behind so-called traditional biblical scholarship; the strategies of and energies in post- and de-colonial criticisms; the Bible as a profitable product, and a site of struggle; and the multiple views or perspectives in the Bible about empire and resistance. In other words, the contributors, as a collective, affirm that the Bible contains (pun intended) resistance.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0357-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0358-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
195
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
1 Negotiating with Scripture and Resistance No access Pages 1 - 14
2 Ephphatha! DARE to Be Opened! No access
3 The People against the Empire No access
4 The Text Collectors No access
5 Gemma Augustea, Imperial Paradox, and the Matthean Resistance No access
6 Cornelius the Centurion Meets the Ethiopian Eunuch in a Jeepney No access
7 The Oppressor Has Ceased No access
8 A Decolonial Reading of Ephesians No access
9 Using the Bible to Resist Empire in the Caribbean’s Jamaica No access
