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Acknowledgments. <p>Introduction.</p> <p>1 Postcolonialism: Hermeneutical Journey through a Contentious Discourse.</p> <p>2 The Late Arrival of the "Post": Postcolonialism and Biblical Studies.</p> <p>3 Postcolonial Biblical Studies in Action: Origins and Trajectories (<i>Ralph Broadbent</i>).</p> <p>4 Enduring Orientalism: Biblical Studies and the Repackaging of Colonial Practice.</p> <p>5 Postcolonial Moments: Decentering of the Bible and Christianity.</p> <p>6 The Empire Exegetes Back: Postcolonial Reading Practices.</p> <p>7 Afterword: Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: The Unfinished Journey.</p> <p>References.</p> <p>Index of Scriptural References.</p> <p>Index of Names and Subjects.</p>

<p>“This book is brilliantly presented with appropriate biblical texts and hermeneutical insights.”  (<i>Theology</i>, 1 May 2012)</p> "The book is written by the foremost scholar in this discipline, with an added chapter by, presumably, one of his students to reinforce the point." (Church Times, 21 October 2011)

<b>R. S. Sugirtharajah</b> has published widely on biblical interpretation and especially on the intersection between postcolonialism and biblical studies. His publications include, <i>Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation</i> (2002), <i>Postcolonial Reconfigurations</i> (2003), <i>The Bible and Empire</i> (2005), Postcolonial Biblical Reader (2006), <i>Still at the Margins</i> (2006), <i>Voices from the Margin</i> (1995, 2006), and <i>Troublesome Texts</i> (2008).

Postcolonial biblical criticism has been one of the most important and vibrant developments in contemporary Biblical Studies. <i>Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice</i> offers a concise and elegant introduction to this exciting field of study. <br /> <br /> <p>R.S. Sugirtharajah, widely regarded as the field's leading proponent, provides a wide ranging overview of the emergence of postcolonial theory -- examining its origins, describing its development, and demonstrating how it is applied to biblical studies. The book then pays particular attention to two of the current features of biblical studies - reverting to the practices of Orientalism and the emergence of Empire Studies especially in the US. The principal representatives and practitioners of contemporary postcolonial biblical criticism are introduced and their work explored. In order to demonstrate the theory, readers are clearly guided through examples of postcolonial reading approaches, including a reading of the birth stories of the Buddha and Jesus. </p> <p>Innovative and timely, <i>Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice</i> provides an accessible introduction to an exciting and engaging development in contemporary critical thinking.</p>

"R. S. Sugirtharajah has not only been the inaugurator of postcolonial biblical criticism but also its most prolific practitioner. His latest book may well turn out to be his most important: a textbook introduction to the field that is eminently accessible to novices, yet so expansive, challenging and profound that old hands will also learn enormously from it."<br /> —<b>Stephen D. Moore</b>, Professor of New Testament Studies, The Theological School, Drew University <p>"Sugi is at it again—he has put before his readers another well-written, compellingly-argued, fascinating and challenging read. Anyone interested in critical biblical studies—biblical studies that analyzes its own operations and agenda in a fraught postcolonial situation--in the early twenty-first century will need to take Sugirtharajah’s work very seriously. This book is from my point of view the new starting point for debates and conversations and proposals about postcolonial biblical criticism--and beyond--in the decade ahead."<br /> —<b>Vincent L Wimbush</b>, Institute for Signifying Scriptures, Claremont Graduate University</p>

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