This stimulating study explores the implications of postcolonial criticism for biblical studies. Sugirtharajah provides a comprehensive overview of the origins, definitions, and procedures of postcolonial criticism, followed by a discussion of its significance in biblical interpretation. He reveals how postcolonial criticism can offer new perspectives to our understanding of the Bible and of how Western Imperialism has shaped Christianity.

• Introduction


• I. Postcolonial construals


• 1: Charting the aftermath: a review of postcolonial criticism


• 2: Redress, regeneration, redemption: a survey of biblical interpretation


• 3: Coding and decoding: postcolonial theory and biblical interpretation


• 4: Convergent trajectories? Liberation hermeneutics and postcolonial biblical criticism


• II. Postcolonial preoccupations


• 5: The version on which the sun never sets: the English Bible and its authorizing tendencies


• 6: Blotting the master's copy: locating bible translations


• 7: Hermeneutics in transit: diaspora and interpretations


• Afterword


• Bibliography

R. S. Sugirtharajah is a Reader in Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham.His publications include The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters, The Postcolonial Bible, Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism, and is general editor of The Bible and Postcolonialism series (Sheffield Academic Press).