Postcolonial biblical interpretation: A futile exercise?
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2014
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University of Namibia
Abstract
After modernism, interpretive approaches moved away from focussing only on
language for seeking the meaning of texts. In biblical interpretation, the same
trend emerged. Focus shifted to the periphery and even the historical (diachronic)
and current (synchronic) “outsides” or contexts of the language of texts in order to
establish meaning in specific texts and textual genres. “Postcolonial” interpretation
followed this trend in most African contexts and became more popular in the
after-colonial eras of African interpretive communities who have been liberated
socially and politically, and with that, also literarily. The postcolonial interpretive
exercise currently gains ground, but also fights criticism from the pure literalists.
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Biblical interpretation
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Hunter, J.Postcolonial biblical interpretation: a futile exercise? Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 3 (1&2), 118-125.