Postcolonial biblical criticism in South Africa
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2003
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2003, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 59-85 |
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| Summary: | 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. With postcolonial studies intrinsically tied to hermeneutics, it represents a shift in emphasis, a strategy of reading, in an attempt to point out what was missing in previous analyses, as well as to rewrite and correct, although its politics of textuality has already come under fire for its lack of political action. Although some postcolonial readings of the New Testament have been done, this article attempts to identify the most important criteria for and characteristics of postcolonial biblical criticism, and discusses what can be considered three vital elements of such a hermeneutical endeavour. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83128 |