PAUL THROUGH POSTCOLONIAL EYES
Edited by
CHRISTOPHER D. STANLEY
Fortress Press
Minneapolis
PAUL IN CRITICAL CONTEXTS
Paul through Postcolonial Eyes
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Some scripture quotations are based on the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Some scripture quotations are based on the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter 5 first appeared in The Conrad Grebel Review 21 (2003): 82–103.
Chapter 7 first appeared in Theoforum 35 (2004): 173–93.
Chapter 9 was published in What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008), 75–97, and is reprinted by kind permission of University of Hawai’i Press.
Chapter 10 first appeared in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 22 (2006): 5–32.
Chapter 16 first appeared in Asia Journal of Theology 19/1 (April 2005): 188–220.
Cover design: Laurie Ingram
Cover image: The apostle Paul being led toward martyrdom; detail of a stone relief from the lower panel of the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (fourth century c.e.), Museum of the Treasury, St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Photograph © Erich Lessing/Art Resource, N.Y.
Book design: The HK Scriptorium
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The colonized Apostle: Paul through postcolonial eyes / edited by Christopher D. Stanley.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8006-6458-9 (alk. paper)
1. Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul—Postcolonial criticism. I. Stanley, Christopher D.
BS2650.52.C65 2011
227'.06—dc22
2011016178
Foreword by Efraín Agosto
Part One: What Is Postcolonial Studies?
Christopher D. Stanley
Stephen D. Moore
The Beginnings of Postcolonial Studies
The Beginnings of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
Interrogating the “Postcolonial” in Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
2. Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial Theory
Susan B. Abraham
3. Marxism and the Postcolonial Study of Paul
Neil Elliott
Elements of Marxist Interpretation
Marxist Interpretation of Early Christianity
Marxism and Postcolonial Criticism
Marxist Challenges for the Postcolonial Interpretation of Paul
A Future for Marxist Criticism? A Christian-Marxist Coda
Part Two: Paul and Ancient Forms of Colonialism
a. paul and roman colonial rule
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About The Colonized Apostle: Paul through Postcolonial EyesAlthough the term “postcolonial” is contested today, not least by scholars who identify themselves as postcolonial interpreters, on any account it involves vital questions about ideology and identity, empire, ethnicity, gender, hybridity, political struggle, and all the overlapping tensions and ambiguities occasioned by the colonial situation. In recent years, postcolonial explorations in biblical studies and theology have intertwined and collided with feminist, liberationist, Marxist, and more traditional historical-critical perspectives. No part of the Bible has received more attention—or been the site of more controversy—than the interpretation of the Apostle Paul, his letters, and the communities in which he moved. How did Roman imperial culture shape the environment in which Paul carried out his apostolate? How do the multiple legacies of modern colonialism and contemporary empire shape, illuminate, or obscure our readings of Paul’s letters? In The Colonized Apostle, Christopher D. Stanley has gathered many of the foremost voices in postcolonial and empire-critical scholarship on Paul to provide a state-of-the-art guide to these questions. This volume includes essays introducing postcolonial criticism and applying its insights both to Paul’s context in the Roman world and to the reevaluation of contemporary interpretation. |
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