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Title Islands, islanders, and the Bible : rumInations / edited by Jione Havea, Margaret Aymer, and Steed Vernyl Davidson
Published Atlanta : SBL Press, [2015]
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Series Society of Biblical Literature Semeia studies ; number 77
Semeia studies ; no. 77.
Contents RumInations / Steed Vernyl Davidson, Margaret Aymer, and Jione Havea -- Islandedness, Paul, and John of Patmos / Margaret Aymer -- Building on sand: shifting readings of Genesis 38 and Daniel 8 / Steed Vernyl Davidson -- Island-marking texts: engaging the Bible in Oceania / Nāsili Vaka'uta -- Celebrating hybridity in island Bibles: Jesus, the tamaalepō (child of the dark) in Mataio 1:18-26 / Mosese Ma'ilo -- Creolizing hermeneutics: a Caribbean invitation / Althea Spencer Miller -- Gaelic psalmody and a theology of place in the Western Isles of Scotland / Grant Macaskill -- Islands in the sun: overtures to a Caribbean creation theology / J. Richard Middleton -- The island of Tyre: the exploitation of peasants in the regions of Tyre and Galilee / Hisako Kinukawa -- Sea-ing Ruth with Joseph's mistress / Jione Havea -- Sand, surf, and Scriptures / Roland Boer -- Islandedness, translation, and creolization / Aliou C. Niang -- The wrong kind of island?: notes from a "scept'red isle" / Andrew Mein -- Third wave reading / Elaine M. Wainwright -- Thinking on islands / Daniel Smith-Christopher -- Writing from another "room-in-ating" place / Randall C. Bailey
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
SUBJECT Bible -- Postcolonial criticism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008530
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
Bible fast
Subject Island people -- Religion
Islands.
islands (landforms)
BIBLES -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
Postcolonial criticism of sacred works
Islands
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Havea, Jione, 1965- editor.
Aymer, Margaret P., editor.
Davidson, Steed V., editor.
ISBN 9781589839489
158983948X