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Tables of Contents for Decolonizing Biblical Studies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
ix
PART I GRAND MODELS AND STRATEGIES OF INTERPRETATION
``And They Began to Speak in Other Tongues'' Competing Modes of Discourse in Contemporary Biblical Criticism
3
31
Competing Modes of Discourse in Biblical Criticism
7
4
Historical Criticism: The Text as Means
11
5
Literary Criticism: The Text as Medium
16
6
Cultural Criticism: The Text as Means and Medium
22
7
Cultural Studies: The Text as Construction
29
5
Cultural Studies and Contemporary Biblical Criticism Ideological Criticism as Mode of Discourse
34
21
Plotting Biblical Criticism
35
6
Cultural Studies: The Text as Construction
41
9
Concluding Comments
50
5
PART II GRAND MODELS AND STRATEGIES OF PEDAGOGY
Pedagogical Discourse and Practices in Contemporary Biblical Criticism
55
32
Pedagogical Discourse and Practices in Historical, Literary, and Cultural Criticism
59
14
Recent Calls for Change: Cultural Studies
73
12
Concluding Comments
85
2
Pedagogical Discourse and Practices in Cultural Studies Toward a Contextual Biblical Pedagogy
87
32
Cultural Studies: Diagnoses and Prescriptions
89
3
Cultural Studies and Pedagogy: A Proposal
92
19
Concluding Reflections
111
8
PART III BIBLICAL STUDIES AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
Biblical Criticism and Postcolonial Studies Toward a Postcolonial Optic
119
14
Option for a Postcolonial Optic
121
4
Postcolonial Studies and Biblical Criticism
125
6
Concluding Comments
131
2
Notes toward Refining the Postcolonial Optic
133
12
The Question of Nomenclature
133
2
Reading the Responses
135
7
Concluding Comments
142
3
PART IV VOICES FROM OUTSIDE
My Personal Voice The Making of a Postcolonial Critic
145
12
Historical Criticism: Suppression of the Personal Voice
147
3
Cultural Studies: Irruption of the Personal Voice
150
2
Postcolonial Studies: Entrenchment of the Personal Voice
152
3
Concluding Comments
155
2
Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Biblical Studies
157
Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Biblical Studies at the Turn of the Century
160
Life and Role of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Biblical Studies
170