Voices from the margin : interpreting the Bible in the Third World / edited by R. S. Sugirtharajah.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Part one: Reading Strategies -- The Bible and the five hundred years of conquest / Elsa Tamez -- Re-reading for liberation: African American women and the Bible / Renita J. Weems -- Marxist critical tools: are they helpful in breaking the stranglehold of idealist hermeneutics? / José Míguez-Bonino -- Developments in Biblical interpretation in Africa: historical and hermeneutical directions / Justin S. Ukpong -- Five smooth stones: reading the Bible through aboriginal eyes / Graham Paulson and Mark Brett -- Reading islandly / Jione Havea -- Modern Chinese attitudes towards the Bible / Chen Jianming -- Dalits, Bible, and method / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon -- Postcolonial Biblical interpretation / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Part two: Subaltern Readings -- Jesus and the Minjung in the Gospel of Mark / Ahn Byung-Mu -- Rereading the Bible with dispersed migrants and disempowered indigenous people / A. Maria Arul Raja -- Anti-greed and anti-pride: Mark 10:17-27 and 10:35-45 in the light of tribal values / George M. Soares-Prabhu -- The Cornelius story in the Japanese cultural context / Hisao Kayama -- The forgiveness of debts in Matthew and Luke: for an economy without exclusions / Ivoni Richter Reimer -- Wickedness in the place of justice and righteousness: a reading of Ecclesiastes 3:16-17 in response to court's ban for Malaysian Christians publications to use the word Allah / Elaine W.F. Goh -- Voices of the Whenua: engaging 1 Kings 21 through a Māori lens / Nasili Vaka 'uta -- Part three: Many Readings: Exodus -- A Latin American perspective: the option for the poor in the Old Testament / George V. Pixley and Clodovis Boff -- An Asian feminist perspective: the Exodus story (Exodus 1:8-22; 2:1-10) / An Asian Group Work -- A Palestinian perspective: Biblical perspectives on the land / Naim S. Ateek -- A Native American perspective: Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians / Robert Allen Warrior -- Exodus-toward-Egypt: Filipino-Americans' struggle to realize the promised land in America / Eleazer S. Fernandez -- Let my people go!: threads of Exodus in African American narratives / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Part four: Postcolonial Readings -- Returning to China: Biblical interpretation in postcolonial Hong Kong / Archie C.C. Lee -- Reading for decolonization (John 4:1-42) / Musa W. Dube -- Making waves: The Woman's Bible in the wake of Chinese American feminist sensibilities / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- Is there an "anticonquest" ideology in the book of Judges? / Uriah Y. Kim -- Part five: Inter-textual Readings -- Two mission commands: an interpretation of Matthew 28:16-20 in the light of a Buddhist text / George M. Soares-Prabhu -- The Book of Ecclesiastes and Thai Buddhism / Seree Lorgunpai -- Interpreting John 14:6 in a religiously plural society / S. Wesley Ariarajah -- The rhetorical hermeneutic of 1 Corinthians 8 and Chinese ancestor worship / Khiok-Khng Yeo -- The aggressive brothers versus the victimized orphan / Layang Seng Ja -- On developing liberation theology in Islam / Asghar Ali Engineer -- Wrestling in the night / Samuel Rayan, S.J. -- Part six: People as Exegetes: Popular Readings -- A Brazilian example: 'listening to what the Spirit is saying to the churches' ---- popular interpretation of the Bible in Brazil / Carlos Mesters -- A Malawian example: the Bible and non-literate communities / Patrick A. Kalilombe -- A Nicaraguan example: the Alabaster Bottle ---- Matthew 26:6-13 -- An Indonesian example: the miraculous catch ---- Luke 5:1-11 -- Toward a post-Apartheid black feminist reading of the Bible: a case of Luke 2:36-38 / Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie -- Afterword: marginal mappers, eternal outsiders: twenty-five years of Voices from the Margins / R.S. Sugirtharajah.