Overview
- Pursues an intersectional approach of counter-hegemony
- Demonstrates the use of strategies and tropes in setting the boundaries of biblical law and ritual in which disparities of race, gender and culture intersect
- Intersects and explores readings of subaltern interests
Part of the book series: Postcolonialism and Religions (PCR)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book follows a reader’s logic of association through a series of overlapping constructs in biblical prescription of things prized and lofty—holy hair, unblemished beasts, sacred edibles, wholesome wombs, pristine precincts, esteemed ethnicities and, as unlikely as it seems, dismembered members. Thoroughly intersectional in disposition, Bernon Lee uncovers not just the precariousness of the contrived dichotomies through the identity-building sacred texts, but also the complexities and contentions of a would-be decolonizing hermeneutic bristling with its own tensions and temptations. This volume is an intertextual odyssey through law and ritual from impassioned positions fraught with ambivalence, reticence, and anxiety.
Reviews
“Bernon Lee resists the trend to domesticate the complexities of the Hebrew Bible within separate traditions of reading, each of which secure their own conversations against the encroachment of outsiders. He is one of the few biblical scholars to bring postcolonial interests to the legal traditions, writing with a creative and engaging restlessness that is conditioned by his own cultural ambivalence as an Asian American. His hermeneutical wanderings traverse multiple perspectives of interpretation, exploring the gaps and ironies in the biblical texts without losing focus on vulnerable outsiders, past and present.” (Mark G. Brett, Whitley College and University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia)
“This is a creative and strong example of the working out of a postcolonial reading (with feminist and Asian-American leanings) that showcases the complexity (and transgressions) of intertextual criticism. The book is a breath of fresh air on the reading of ‘biblical ritual and law’ texts.” (Jione Havea, Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bernon Lee is professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Bethel University, Minnesota, USA, and the author of Between Law and Narrative: The Method and Function of Abstraction.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marginal(ized) Prospects through Biblical Ritual and Law
Book Subtitle: Lections from the Threshold
Authors: Bernon Lee
Series Title: Postcolonialism and Religions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55095-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55094-7Published: 07 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85565-3Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55095-4Published: 19 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2312
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2320
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 221
Topics: Liberation Theology, Biblical Studies, Feminist Theology, Religion and Society