Semeia 75

Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading

Laura E. Donaldson, ed.

Copyright © 1996 [1998] by Society of Biblical Literature.

Published in Atlanta, GA.

Contents

Contributors to This Issue

Postcolonialism and Biblical Reading: An Introduction

Laura E. Donaldson

Postcolonialism and Imperial Motives for Canonization

Jon L. Berquist

Reading for Decolonization (John 4:1–42)

Musa W. Dube

A Canaanitic Word in the Logos of Christ; Or the Difference the Syro-Phoenician Woman Makes to Jesus

Jim Perkinson

The Gospel of Lucas Gavilán As Postcolonial Biblical Exegesis

Hector Avalos

“Everybody Talking About Heaven Ain’t Going There”: The Biblical Call for Justice and the Postcolonial Response of the Spirituals

Kimberly Rae Connor

Green Ants and Gibeonites: B. Wongar, Joshua 9, and Some Problems of Postcolonialism

Roland Boer

From I-Hermeneutics to We-Hermeneutics: Native Americans and the Post-Colonial

Jace Weaver

Tropes of Travel

Miriam Peskowitz

Responses

El Salto Hermenéutico de Hoy

Elsa Tamez

The Hermeneutical Leap of Today

Elsa Tamez

Response

Robert Allen Warrior

Response to the Semeia Volume on Postcolonial Criticism

Kwok Pui-lan

The Ethics of Postcolonial Criticism

Mark G. Brett

Mapping the Hybrid World: Three Postcolonial Motifs

Susan VanZanten Gallagher

Contributors to This Issue

Hector Avalos

1215 Florida Ave. #405

Ames, IA 50014-3064

Jon L. Berquist

P.O. Box 17

Lawrenceburg, KY 40342-0017

Roland Boer

United Theological College

16 Masons Drive North

Parramatta, NS 2151

Australia

Mark G. Brett

Whitley College

University of Melbourne

271 Royal Parade

Parkville, Victoria 3052

Australia

Kimberly Rae Connor

224 Country Club Drive

San Francisco, CA 94132

Laura E. Donaldson

English, Women’s Studies, and American Indian/Native Studies

202 Jefferson Building

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 52242-1418

Musa W. Dube

Dept. of Theology and Rel. Studies

University of Botswana

Private Bag 0022

Gaborone

Botswana

Susan VanZanten Gallagher

Professor of English

Tiffany Hall

Seattle Pacific University

3307 Third Avenue West

Seattle, WA 98119-1997

Jim Perkinson

5540 S. Woodlawn

Chicago, IL 60637

Miriam Peskowitz

Department of Religion

125 Dauer Hall

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611

Kwok Pui-lan

Episcopal Divinity School

99 Brattle Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Elsa Tamez

Seminario Biblico Latino Americano

APDO 901

1000 San Jose

Costa Rica

Robert Allen Warrior

English Department

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-2087

Jace Weaver

70 LaSalle Street #13-B

New York, NY 10027

Postcolonialism and Biblical Reading: An Introduction

Laura E. Donaldson

The University of Iowa

Apologies Not Enough

In his essay “Critical Fanonism”, Henry Louis Gates remarks that the current ascendancy of the colonial paradigm constitutes one of the most important developments in contemporary literary and cultural theory (457). Indeed, the past decade has witnessed a veritable explosion of publications and conferences about “postcolonialism” and its importance as an analytical and political ...

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About Semeia 75: Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading

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.

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