Cover; Colonialism and the Bible; Series Page; Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Fernando F. Segovia; Pursuing the Problematic: A Time for Remembrance and Commemoration; Situating the Project: An Exercise in Ideological Criticism; Resuming Foundational Impulses: A Quest for Justice and Morality; A Concluding Comment; Notes; Bibliography; Introduction by Tat-siong Benny Liew; Luke-Acts and Its Intertexts; 1 Peter and Its Strategies; Revelation and Its Contradictions; Ventriloquist No More
Between These CoversNotes; Bibliography; Part I: Africa and the Middle East; Chapter 1; Interrogating Identity; The Stories of Hagar and Ishmael; Interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the Question of Identity; Hagar and Ishmael in Christian Egyptian Interpretation; Hagar and Ishmael Problematize Binary Opposition; Ishmael and the Covenant between God and Abraham According to the Priestly Tradition in Genesis 17; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2; The Bible as Tool of Colonization; Missionary Project in Zimbabwe
The Role of the Bible in the Patriarchal and Imperial Oppression of African WomenConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3; Postwar Hermeneutics; Landscapes of Postwar 1945: Bible and its Discourse Communities; Bible after Gun Shots: Colonial Mythology and Narrative Kinship of Strangers; Storytelling, Multiple Consciousness, and Biblical Interpretation; Bible after War: Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Multiple Narratives; Conclusion: Bible and the Necropolitics of Moses-turned-Pharaoh; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4; The Bible as a De-Colonial Tool for Palestinian Christians Today
A New Biblical Interpretation in the Context of OccupationPalestinian Christians' Experience with the Bible: Socio-Historical Context; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5; Israeli Cinema's Interpretations of the Biblical Imperative of Colonization; The Beginning; The Six-Day War and After; Disengagement: The Tragedy of a Fulfilled Prophecy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6; Towards a Postcolonial Hermeneutics for the Palestinian Context; Beginnings; Responses from the World; New Critical Developments; A New Approach; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Asia and the Pacific
Chapter 7Colonial Storms and Postcolonial Moves; Deconstructing Colonial Storms: Bible as Colonizing Tool in the Philippines; Constructing Postcolonial Moves: Bible as Liberating Tool in the Philippines; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8; Carrying Out "The Great Commission" until the "Second Coming of Christ"?; Connecting the Past with the Present; Overseas Missions in the Global South by Conservative South Korean Protestant Christians; Biblical Authority as Justification for South Korean Overseas Missions; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9; The Jesuit Missionary Enterprise