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By Roland Boer

This quantity returns to the place preliminary curiosity in postcolonial biblical feedback begun: the Hebrew Bible. It does so to not rejoice the numerous achievements of postcolonial research over the past few many years yet to invite what your next step will be. In those essays, demonstrated and more moderen students, many from the interstices of worldwide scholarship, speak about particular texts, neo/post/colonial occasions, and theoretical concerns. relocating from the Caribbean to Greenland, from Ezra-Nehemiah to the Gibeonites, this assortment seeks out new territory, new questions, and doubtless a few new solutions. The participants are Roland Boer, Steed Davidson, Richard Horsley, Uriah Y. Kim, Judith McKinlay, Johnny Miles, Althea Spencer-Miller, Leo Perdue, Christina Petterson, Joerg Rieger, and Gerald West.

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Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe. Louisville: Westminster John Knox. Segovia, Fernando F. 2005. Mapping the Postcolonial Optic in Biblical Criticism: Meaning and Scope. Pages 23–78 in Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary Intersections. Edited by Stephen D. Moore and Fernando F. Segovia. London: T&T Clark International. Shemesh, Yael. 2007. A Gender Perspective on the Daughters of Zelophehad: Bible, Talmudic Midrash, and Modern Feminist Midrash. BibInt 15:80–109. Simkins, Ronald A.

Additionally, the fact that literacy does not readily displace an oral mentality would be more discernible were there a more comprehensive focalizer than epic performance and frames other than the orality/chirography and orality/literacy binaries. Despite the advent of writing, signs of orality remain in communication events other than epic performance and reading aloud for an audience. Aurality, optics, tactility, collectivity, presence, embodiment, are all terms that relate to an oral modality.

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