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Subject(s)

• Bible—Postcolonial criticism [Browse]
• Bible—Hermeneutics [Browse]
• Bible Old Testament—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]
• Bible New Testament—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Havea, Jione, 1965- [Browse]
• Melanchthon, Monica J., 1962- [Browse]

Series

Intersectionality and theology series

Summary note

"Several of the ways and cultures that the Bible privileges or denounces slip by unnoticed. When those--the privileged and the denounced--are not examined, they fade into and hide in the blind spots of the Bible. This collection of essays engages some of the subjects who face dispersion (physical displacement that sparks ideological bias) and othering (ideologies that manifest in social distancing and political displacement). These include, among others, the builders of Babel, Samaritans, Melchizedek, Jezebel, Judith, Gomer, Ruth, slaves, and mothers. In addition to considering the drive to privilege or denounce, the contributors also attend to subjects ignored because the Bible's blind spots are not examined. These include planet Earth, indigenous Australians, Palestinians, Dalits, minjungs, battered women, sexual-abuse victims, religious minorities, mothering men, gays, and foreigners. This collection encourages interchanges and exchanges between dispersion and othering, and between the Bible and context. It flows in the currents of postcolonial and gendered studies, and closes with a script that stages a biblical character at the intersection of the Bible's blind spots and modern readers' passions and commitments." -- provided by publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Spotlighting the Bible's blind(ing) spots / Jione Havea and Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon
• Dispersal, defense, and dispossession : rereading Genesis 11:1-9 from stolen land / Laura Griffin
• Is God at the boss's table? / Daŕio Baroĺin
• That slave is your sibling : a reading of Deuteronomy 15:12-18 / Chrisida Nithyakalyani Anandan
• Remixing Egypt / Jione Havea
• Samaritans and empires : election, exclusion and inclusion / Ńestor O. Ḿiguez
• The fluidity of sacred margins : the Letter to the Hebrews / Mothy Varkey
• Dispersion of Minjung in Mark and Asian diasporas in the Americas / Jin Young Choi
• Women and masculinity : Hindu India and second temple Judah / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon
• Reading her story in his narration : Zuleika and her otherness in Genesis 39 / Sweety Helen Chukka
• "And no one shall rescue her out of my hand" : Gomer and Hosea 2 in a world of battered women / Bethany Broadstock
• Earth came to help a woman : mythopoeic language and discipleship in Revelation 12: 1-17 / Vaitusi Nofoaiga
• Troubling gender scripts : mothering and childbearing in 1 Timothy 2:8-15 / Johnathan Jodamus
• Throwing shade : Psalm 4 shares the anxieties of the gay community / Brent Pelton
• Ruth et alia / Ellie Elia and Jione Havea.

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ISBN

• 1725276763 (paperback)
• 9781725276765 (paperback)
• 9781725276772 (hardcover)
• 1725276771 (hardcover)

OCLC

1286146122

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