Semeia 75: Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“Such hybridity emerges from the syncretic nature of postcolonial societies, cultures, and discourses” (Page 236)
“how Matthew’s directive has been mobilized as a justification of conquest.” (Page 6)
“When the white man came to our country he had the Bible and we had the land. The White man said to us, ‘let us pray.’ After the prayer, the white man had the land and we had the Bible.’” (Page 37)
“‘as worthless religiosity a concern with offering God worship when we were unmindful of the sociopolitical implications of our religion’” (Page 1)
“astened the disruption of indigenous social structures and non-European knowledge systems” (Page 4)
- Hector Avalos
- Jon L. Berquist
- Roland Boer
- Mark G. Brett
- Kimberly Rae Connor
- Laura E. Donaldson
- Musa W. Dube
- Susan VanZanten Gallagher
- Jim Perkinson
- Miriam Peskowitz
- Kwok Pui-lan
- Elsa Tamez
- Robert Allen Warrior
- Jace Weaver
- Title: Semeia 75: Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading
- Editor: Laura E. Donaldson
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1998
- Pages: 240
Laura E. Donaldson is Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at Cornell University and author of Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire-Building
