A Postcolonial Woman's Encounter with Moses and Miriam (Postcolonialism and Religions)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137544309 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 262 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book is grounded in a theorization of the author's personal story including growing up as a female adoptee of a single parent in a patriarchal context, and current material context as an immigrant in New Zealand.
Angeline M.G. from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and is an Honorary Research Associate of Laidlaw College in Auckland, New Zealand. Song is a former newspaper journalist turned biblical scholar. She earned her Ph.D. She also works with students with disability issues in tertiary education in Auckland. Her research interests include Empathy studies, Postcol
"Angeline shows that reading biblical texts requires a personal investment of empathy--a unique way of becoming one like the acto" according to Amazon Customer. Angeline Song's book is in a category of its own. For a long time Biblical studies has anchored itself within the enlightenment mold of scientification of knowledge. But in recent decades scholarship has started moving away from theoretical abstract readings to concretization of texts. Song employs empathy as a reading strategy to show in a very practical way how this can be done. Angeline shows that reading biblical texts requires a personal inve
Her personal history is embedded effectively into the larger context of the colonial and postcolonial history and culture of Singapore, even as Moses and Miriam are embedded in the Egyptian colonial context." - Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA"Song employs focalization to gain new insights into the story of Moses, the adoptee of an Egyptian, colonizer, single royal woman; and Miriam, Moses's sister, who saves him by playing the colonized's role. The methodological and the personal are woven together to give new insight into the biblical story in a way hitherto un-attempted. It is a sophisticated exercise in interdisciplinary criticism, placing Hebrew bib