Voices from the Margin : Interpreting the Bible in the Third World

by Sugirtharajah, R. S.

• ISBN13: 9781570756863
• ISBN10: 1570756864
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

This substantially revised edition has been expanded to include sixteen new essays and a new section on postcolonial readings of scripture. It also contains a new introduction and an afterword by the editor, calling attention to new developments in biblical interpretation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction: Still at the Margins	1	(10)
R.S. Sugirtharajah (Sri Lanka/UK)
Part One Reading Strategies	11	(74)
1. The Bible and the Five Hundred Years of Conquest	13	(14)
Elsa Tamez (Costa Rica)
2. Re-Reading for Liberation: African American Women and the Bible	27	(13)
Renita J. Weems (USA)
3. Marxist Critical Tools: Are They Helpful in Breaking the Stranglehold of Idealist Hermeneutics?	40	(9)
José Miguez-Bonino (Argentina)
4. Developments in Biblical Interpretation in Africa: Historical and Hermeneutical Directions	49	(15)
Justin S. Ukpong (Nigeria)
5. Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation	64	(23)
R.S. Sugirtharajah (Sri Lanka/UK)
Part Two Subaltern Readings	85	(120)
6. Jesus and the Minjung in the Gospel of Mark	87	(16)
Ahn Byung-Mu (South Korea)
7. Breaking Hegemonic Boundaries: An Intertextual Reading of the Madurai Veeran Legend and Mark's Story of Jesus	103	(9)
A. Maria Arul Raja, S.J. (India)
8. Anti-Greed and Anti-Pride: Mark 10.17-27 and 10.35-45 in the Light of Tribal Values	112	(17)
George M. Soares-Prabhu (India)
9. The Cornelius Story in the Japanese Cultural Context	129	(13)
Hisao Kayama (Japan)
10. The Forgiveness of Debts in Matthew and Luke: For an Economy without Exclusions	142	(16)
Ivoni Richter Reimer (Brazil)
11. The Skin of Miriam Became as White as Snow: The Bible, Western Feminism and Colour Politics	158	(11)
Mukti Barton (India/UK)
12. Wresting the Message from the Messenger: The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible	169	(20)
Nathaniel S. Murrell (Grenada, West Indies/USA)
13. "Barak God and Die!": Women, HIV, and a Theology of Suffering	189	(16)
Sarojini Nadar (South Africa)
Part Three Many Readings: Exodus	205	(74)
14. A Latin American Perspective: The Option for the Poor in the Old Testament	207	(10)
George V. Pixley (Nicaragua/USA) and Clodovis Boff (Brazil)
15. An Asian Feminist Perspective: The Exodus Story (Exodus 1.8-22; 2.1-10)	217	(10)
An Asian Group Work
16. A Palestinian Perspective: Biblical Perspectives on the Land	227	(8)
Nairn S. Ateek (Israel)
17. A Native American Perspective: Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians	235	(7)
Robert Allen Warrior (USA)
18. Exodus-toward-Egypt: Filipino-Americans' Struggle to Realize the Promised Land in America	242	(16)
Eleazer S. Fernandez (Philippines/USA)
19. Let My People Go!: Threads of Exodus in African American Narratives	258	(21)
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan (USA)
Part Four Postcolonial Readings	279	(50)
20. Returning to China: Biblical Interpretation in Postcolonial Hong Kong	281	(16)
Archie C.C. Lee (Hong Kong)
21. Reading for Decolonization (John 4.1-42)	297	(22)
Musa W. Dube (Botswana)
22. "Clothed in Her Right Mind": Mark 5.1-20 and Postcolonial Discourse	319	(10)
Jeffrey L. Staley (USA)
Part Five Inter-textual Readings	329	(100)
23. Two Mission Commands: An Interpretation of Matthew 28.16-20 in the Light of a Buddhist Text	331	(16)
George M. Soares-Prabhu (India)
24. The Book of Ecclesiastes and Thai Buddhism	347	(8)
Seree Lorgunpai (Thailand)
25. Interpreting John 14.6 in a Religiously Plural Society	355	(16)
S. Wesley Ariarajah (Sri Lanka/Switzerland)
26. The Rhetorical Hermeneutic of 1 Corinthians 8 and Chinese Ancestor Worship	371	(15)
Khiok-Khng Yeo (Malaysia/USA)
27. Ego and Self in New Testament and in Zen	386	(13)
Seiichi Yagi (Japan)
28. On Developing Liberation Theology in Islam	399	(8)
Asghar Ali Engineer (India)
29. Wrestling in the Night	407	(22)
Samuel Rayan, S.J. (India)
Part Six People as Exegetes: Popular Readings	429	(65)
30. A Brazilian Example: 'Listening to What the Spirit Is Saying to the Churches'—Popular Interpretation of the Bible in Brazil	431	(11)
Carlos Mesters (Brazil)
31. A Malawian Example: The Bible and Non-literate Communities	442	(12)
Patrick A. Kalilombe (Malawi)
32. A Nicaraguan Example: The Alabaster Bottle Matthew 26.6-13	454	(6)
33. An Indonesian Example: The Miraculous Catch Luke 5.1-11	460	(3)
34. Toward a Post-Apartheid Black Feminist Reading of the Bible: A Case of Luke 2.36-38	463	(21)
Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie (South Africa)
35. The Role of the Bible in the Rise of African Instituted Churches: The Case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya	484	(10)
Nahashon W. Ndung'u (Kenya)
Afterword: The Future Imperfect	494	(4)
R.S. Sugirtharajah (Sri Lanka/UK)
Publisher Acknowledgments	498	(1)
Scripture References	499	(2)
Select Index of Names and Subjects	501