The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

R S Sugirtharajah is Professor Emeritus in Biblical Hermeneutics at Birmingham University, U.K., and has taught and lectured in several countries. He is author and editor of significant volumes on biblical studies, including The Bible and Asia (Harvard University Press), Jesus in Asia (Harvard University Press), The Bible and Empire (Cambridge University Press), The Bible and the Third World (Cambridge University Press), Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation (Oxford University Press), Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism (Wiley Blackwell), and The Brahmin and His Bible (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark). His edited volume Voices from the Margin was a Catholic Book Award winner. Besides his academic work, he contributes a regular cultural column for a leading Tamil literary journal in Chennai, India. He has also published a collection of short stories and three volumes of essays in Tamil.

Introduction
R. S. Sugirtharajah

The Egyptian Empire in the Bible
D. N. Premnath

The Neo-Assyrian Empire through a Postcolonial Lens
Safwat Marzouk

The Babylonian Empire in the Bible
Hemchand Gossai

Anointed Saviors or Oppressive Enslavers?: Achaemenid Administration and Judean Subjects
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Jewish Negotiations of Hellenistic Power
Warren Carter

The Roman Empire in the Synoptic Gospels
Judith A. Diehl

John's Writings and Empire: Views of Empire Studies and Postcolonial Criticism
Jin Young Choi

The Roman Empire in Paul's Letters
Tat-siong Benny Liew

The Roman Empire in the Book of Revelation
Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas and Empire
Clara A. B. Joseph

Scriptural Battlefields: The Old Testament, Legal Culture, and the Polemics of the Spanish New World Empire, 1492-1821
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Scriptural Battlefields: The Old Testament, Legal Culture, and the Polemics of the Spanish New World Empire, 1492-1821
Adrian Masters

The Bible and the Dutch Empire
Janneke Stegeman

The Bible and the British Empire
Ralph Broadbent

White Woman's Burden and the Bible during the British Occupation of Singapore
Chin Ming Stephen Lim

The Bible in the German Empire
Joerg Rieger

The Bible and American Empire
Judith H. Newman

The Colonizing Other: The Japanese Challenge for Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
Emily Anderson

The Bible in the Korean Resistance against the Japanese Empire (1910-1945)
Jina Kang

Competing Narratives on Bible Translation in India: Missionary Linguistics, Postcolonial Criticism, and Translation Studies
Hephzibah Israel

Bible Translation in the Colonial Project in Africa and Its Impact on African Languages and Cultures
Dora R. Mbuwayesango

Cross-Textual Interpretation as Postcolonial Strategy in Bible Translation in Asia
Archie C. C. Lee

Postcolonial Biblical Criticism and Queer Studies
Jeremy Punt

Race, Scriptures, and the Postcolonial World
Vincent L. Wimbush

Ecology and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
Ellen F. Davis

Bible, Empire, Liberalism, and Racial Capitalism
Steed Vernyl Davidson

Postcolonial Biblical Criticism and Feminist Studies
Susanne Scholz

Postcolonial Liberation: Decolonizing Biblical Studies in the South African Postcolony
Gerald O. West

Materialist/Marxist Interpretations and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
Niall McKay

The Rise of Postcolonial Criticism in Biblical Studies and Its Current Status
Raj Nadella

Empire, Postcolonial Criticism, and Biblical Studies
Sharon Jacob