The Bible and the Third World
Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-06-11
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521005241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World.
Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-06-11
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521005241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World.
Author: RAHEB
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2014-02-10
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1608334333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Palestinian Christian theologian shows how the reality of empire shapes the context of the biblical story, and the ongoing experience of Middle East conflict.
Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher:
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0511123809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sugirtharajah explores the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise.
Author: Alonzo Trevier Jones
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 157258288X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the chaos of the Tower of Babel to the tragedy of the Babylonian captivity, Empires of the Bible tells the story of the ancient civilizations in the Old Testament. Using research conducted in Babylon and Egypt, this book includes many valuable and historical records inscribed in stone by the very men living in those ancient times. These records combined with Bible history of the same, are woven together in one connected story. Reprinted exactly from the 1904 original, this book also includes a series of 21 maps which trace the course of those empires. The unique design of this book will be found useful by every student, either of the Bible or history.
Author: Richard A. Horsley
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0664232329
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bible tells the stories of many empires, and many are still considered some of the largest of the ancient and classical world: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, and finally the Romans. In this provocative book, nine experts bring a critical analysis of these world empires in the background of the Old and New Testaments. As they explain, the Bible developedagainstthe context of these empires, providing concrete meaning to the countercultural claims of Jews and Christians that their God was the true King, the real Emperor. Each chapter describes how to read the Bible as a reaction to empire and points to how to respond to the biblical message to resist imperial powers in every age.
Author: Steed Vernyl Davidson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-04-02
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0567470717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Empire and Exile explores the impact of Babylonian aggression upon the book of Jeremiah by calling attention to the presence of the empire and showing how the book of Jeremiah can be read as resistant responses to the inevitability of imperial power and the experience of exile. With the insight of postcolonial theory, resistance is framed in these readings as finding a place in the world even though not controlling territory and therefore surviving social death. It argues that even though exile is not prevented, exile is experienced in the constituting of a unique place in the world rather than in the assimilation of the nation. The insights of postcolonial theory direct this reading of the book of Jeremiah from the perspective of the displaced. Theorists Homi Bhabha, Partha Chatterjee, Stuart Hall, and bell hooks provide lenses to read issues peculiar to groups affected by dominant powers such as empires. The use of these theories helps highlight issues such as marginality, hybridity, national identity as formative tools in resistance to empire and survival in exile.
Author: John Dominic Crossan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 006174428X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The bestselling author and prominent New Testament scholar draws parallels between 1st–century Roman Empire and 21st–century United States, showing how the radical messages of Jesus and Paul can lead us to peace today Using the tools of expert biblical scholarship and a keen eye for current events, bestselling author John Dominic Crossan deftly presents the tensions exhibited in the Bible between political power and God’s justice. Through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, Crossan reveals what the Bible has to say about land and economy, violence and retribution, justice and peace, and ultimately, redemption. He examines the meaning of “kingdom of God” prophesized by Jesus, and the equality recommended to Paul by his churches, contrasting these messages of peace against the misinterpreted apocalyptic vision from the book of Revelations, that has been co-opted by modern right-wing theologians and televangelists to justify the United State’s military actions in the Middle East.
Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-16
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521824934
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Author: Warren Carter
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2001-10-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781563383427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In Matthew and Empire, Warren Carter argues that Matthew's Gospel protests Roman imperialism by asserting that God's purposes and will are performed not by the empire and emperor but by Jesus and his community of disciples. Carter makes the claim for reading Matthew this way against the almost exclusive emphasis on the relationship with the synagogue that has long characterized Matthean scholarship. He established Matthew's imperial context by examining Roman imperial ideology and material presence in Anitoch, the traditional provenance for Matthew. Carter argues that Matthean Christology, which presents Jesus as God's agent, is shaped by claims - and protests against those claims - that the emperor and the empire are God's agents. He pays particular attention to the Gospel's central irony, namely that in depicting God's ways and purposes, the Gospel employs the very imperial framework that it resists. Matthew and Empire challenges traditional readings of Matthew and encourage fresh perspectives in Matthean scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521824934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At a time when there is a renewed interest in Empire, this volume explores the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise, and examines some overlooked aspects of this relationship. Topics include the unconventional retellings of the gospel story of Jesus by Thomas Jefferson and Raja Rammohun Roy, and the fate of biblical texts when marshalled by Victorian preachers after the Indian uprising of 1857. The innovative book features practical as well as theoretical insights, providing compelling evidence of the continuing importance of postcolonial discourse for biblical studies.