Empire and Exile explores the impact of Babylonian aggression upon the book of Jeremiah by calling attention to the presence of the empire and showing how the book of Jeremiah can be read as resistant responses to the inevitability of imperial power and the experience of exile. With the insight of postcolonial theory, resistance is framed in these readings as finding a place in the world even though not controlling territory and therefore surviving social death. It argues that even though exile is not prevented, exile is experienced in the constituting of a unique place in the world...
Empire and Exile explores the impact of Babylonian aggression upon the book of Jeremiah by calling attention to the presence of the empire a...
In this collection of sixteen essays, the authors-islanders who are rooted in Asia, America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Oceania-focus on contextual, cultural, and postcolonial criticisms. Each essay invites a conversation on how being islanders, and the various ruminations of islandedness, condition the way islanders read biblical texts.
In this collection of sixteen essays, the authors-islanders who are rooted in Asia, America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Oceania-focus on contextual, c...
