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R. S. Sugirtharajah

Cambridge University Press, Jun 11, 2001

This innovative study moves briskly but comprehensively through three phases of the Third World's encounter with the Bible - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. It recounts the remarkable story of how an inaccessible and marginal book in the ancient churches of India, China and North Africa became an important tool in the hands of both coloniser and colonised; how it has been reclaimed in the postcolonial world; and how it is now being reread by various indigenes, Native Americans, dalits and women. Drawing on substantial exegetical examples, Sugirtharajah examines reading practices ranging from the vernacular to liberation and the newly-emerging postcolonial criticism. His study emphasises the often overlooked biblical reflections of people such as Equiano and Ramabai as well as better-known contemporaries like Gutiérrez and Tamez. Partly historical and partly hermeneutical, the volume will serve as an invaluable introduction to the Bible in the Third World for students and interested general readers.

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About the author (2001)

R. S. Sugirtharajah is Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham. His publications include Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation (2002) and The Bible and the Third World (2001).

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Title	The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
Author	R. S. Sugirtharajah
Edition	illustrated, reprint
Publisher	Cambridge University Press, 2001
ISBN	0521005248, 9780521005241
Length	306 pages
Subjects	Religion Biblical Studies General Bibles / General Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General Religion / Biblical Studies / General Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament Religion / Christianity / History Social Science / Sociology of Religion

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