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The stories of this book are about the permanent interaction
between God and humankind. These narratives invite us to witness
the manner in which God enters human community in all of its
complexities, struggles, challenges, fears, and ultimately, hope.
Hemchand Gossai not only discusses the large variety of themes
within this texts, he also keeps an eye on the implications for the
Church and contemporary readers. Some experiences, like the
barrenness, wilderness and the wrestling with God, are described in
a very close way as metaphors. The richness and texture of
metaphors allow the reader to embrace these stories in a way that
makes them our stories.
Dislocation, which involves moving from a familiar place to an
unknown place, is a common experience in this era of globalization
yet it can cause a deep sense of alienation - people feel
invisible, voiceless, and anonymous. A Hermeneutic on Dislocation
as Experience: Creating a Borderland, Constructing a Hybrid
Identity employs socio-rhetorical criticism from a postcolonial
perspective, providing a hermeneutic on the experience of
dislocation from the perspective of Asian immigrant women. The
author's focus on Asian immigrant women's spirituality is
interwoven with different texts such as the story of a woman caught
in adultery (Jn. 7: 53-8:11), Asian immigrant women's stories in
the novels Dictee and Crossings, and stories of Korean shamans
encountered in the author's ethnographic fieldwork. This book
suggests that people who experience dislocation can create a
borderland where their own marginality gains power and voice. In
that borderland, they are able to construct a hybrid identity as a
result of deep engagement with one another. In particular, the
author's fieldwork on Korean shamans reveals how the shamanic
ritual itself functions as a borderland, wherein the marginalized
Korean shamans gain hybrid identity. A Hermeneutic on Dislocation
as Experience is a valuable resource for classes in Asian studies,
ethnography, cultural anthropology, biblical spirituality, women's
spirituality, and interdisciplinary courses.
This is the first volume to provide a wide range of postcolonial
interpretations of and commentaries upon significant texts in the
Hebrew Bible. The volume intersects with the work of the key
theorists in postcolonial studies such as Fanon, Senghor, Said and
Spivak as well as with scholars such as Sugirtharajah, Kwok
Pui-lan, and Segovia who have applied this theory to biblical
studies. Texts have been chosen specifically for their relevance to
postcolonial discourse, rather than seeking to cover each biblical
document. This volume is designed to demonstrate how historical
criticism, postmodernism, and the important concerns of
postcolonial readings may be integrated to obtain an informed
explanation of the Hebrew Bible and the writings of early Judaism.
The chapters are written by scholars who represent a spectrum of
national, indigenous, and diasporic contexts. Taken together these
perspectives and the interpretations they yield represent a
continued expansion of the manner in which Old Testament texts are
read and interpreted through postcolonial lenses, reminding readers
that the interpretive trajectories of these texts are almost
inexhaustible. As such the volume serves as not only an addition to
ongoing scholarship on postcolonialism but also as an expansion of
the horizon for dialogue.
Researchers on Greco-Roman slavery, formative Christianity, and New
Testament theology will surely benefit from this groundbreaking
book, a study of the Apostle Paul's slave metaphors in Galatians
using the New Rhetoric Model as the lens of analysis. From Roman
slave laws in the first century C.E. to the text of Galatians, this
book provides an excellent test case for all other studies of
first-century metaphors, parables, analogies, and other related
genres. Moreover, this book demonstrates explicitly, using examples
and a clear step-by-step method to clarify the meanings behind
Paul's metaphors.
This ethnographic study explores the lived experiences and
challenges felt by Muslim female students in higher education in
the greater District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV)
area. It offers narrative case studies as a form of narrative
inquiry based on stories of lived experience as a means of
capturing dynamic, didactic, and dialectic understandings to
promote and enable needed change in higher education. In centering
the voices of Muslim female students, this research goes beyond the
narrow statistical representation of predefined categories to
examine and present the systematic nature and roots of social
prejudice.
Description: Who will speak for Hagar or Isaac or Sarah or the
daughters of Lot? With an interpretive trajectory that moves from
the margin to the center, this book gives voice to the marginalized
and voiceless in the Abraham Narratives. Further, this approach is
based on the premise that there is a continuum of power in the
various characters in these narratives and that the most powerful
are those who are lodged at the center while those with the least
power are on the margin or beyond. The intent of this study is to
direct and perhaps re-direct our attention to the text and with
fresh eyes seek a sometimes radical realignment of roles and power.
It is true that many of the characters focused on in this book are
women. This is not, however, only a book about women, though
clearly women are the principal characters on the margin.
Endorsements: ""Gossai is a bold poser of new questions. And when
new questions are asked of the text, fresh readings become
available. In Gossai's capable hands, there are no innocent texts.
Now there are hidden writs of power that pervade the text. Gossai
invites the reader to the thickness of the text that cuts beneath
surface meanings to where real life-and-death issues are exposed.
Abraham and the cast of characters around him are shown to be, like
the reader, summoned to hard choices to make and real risks to
run."" --Walter Brueggemann author of A Pathway of Interpretation
and Divine Presence amid Violence About the Contributor(s):
Hemchand Gossai is Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia
Southern University. He is also the author of Barrenness and
Blessing: Abraham, Sarah, and the Journey of Faith; Social Critique
by Israel's Eighth-Century Prophets; and River Crossings: Memories
of a Journey--A Memoir.
Description: The themes of these stories are profoundly human
themes, capturing the persistent interaction between God and
humankind. These narratives invite us to witness the manner in
which God enters human community in all of its complexities,
struggles, challenges, fears, and ultimately hope. As the
narratives unfold, not only is it clear that God will not be
restricted by societal and cultural conventions, but the human
journey will be generated by faith and doubt, fear and hope,
promise and fulfillment. Hemchand Gossai not only explores the
various themes within a variety of texts, but maintains a constant
eye on the implications for the church and contemporary readers. In
this regard, some of the literal and particular experiences such as
barrenness, wilderness, and wrestling with God are examined as
metaphors for our experiences. The richness and texture of
metaphors allow us to embrace these stories in a way that makes
them our stories. Endorsements: ""Hemchand Gossai has long been
working on the stories of Abraham and Sarah with great clarity,
literary sensitivity, and theological savvy.In this volume, he
expands upon that journey with newstudiesregarding God, the human
characters, and their interrelationships.Gathering the major themes
from these narratives, Gossai presents them in such a waythat
Israel's stories canspeak once again into the complexities of our
interreligious world.Students and scholars alike will benefit from
his many insights."" --Terence E. Fretheim, Elva B. Lovell
Professor of Old Testament, Luther Theological Seminary; author of
Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith About the Contributor(s):
Hemchand Gossai is Director of Religious Studies at Georgia
Southern University. He is also the author of Social Critique by
Israel's Eighth-Century Prophets and River Crossings: Memories of a
Journey--A Memoir.
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