A vanishing mediator? : the presence/absence of the Bible in postcolonialism / guest editor, Roland Boer ; board editor: Gerald West.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia ; 88.Publication details: Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, c2001.Description: 214 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.6 Se52 v.88
LOC classification:
  • BS538.7 .V36 2001
Other classification:
  • 89.91
Contents:
Introduction: Vanishing mediators? / Roland Boer -- Essays. The book eaters: textuality, modernity, and the London Missionary Society / Anna Johnston -- Before the second Reformation: nineteenth-century Aboriginal meditations of the Bible in Van Diemen's Land / Penny van Toorn -- Explorer hermeneutics, or Fat damper and sweetened tea / Roland Boer -- Surveying the promised land: Elizabeth Jolley's Milk and honey / Dorothy Jones -- Which good book? Missionary education and conversion in colonial India / Sanjay Seth -- A Pisgah sight of Ireland: religious embodiment and colonialism in Ulysses / Amardeep Singh -- In praise of polytheism / John Docker -- The word set in blood and stone: the book of God from tribes to kingdoms and nations / Paul James -- Response. A real presence, subsumed by others: the Bible in colonial and postcolonial contexts / Gerald West.
Holdings
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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 220.6 Se52 v.88 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000769086

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Vanishing mediators? / Roland Boer -- Essays. The book eaters: textuality, modernity, and the London Missionary Society / Anna Johnston -- Before the second Reformation: nineteenth-century Aboriginal meditations of the Bible in Van Diemen's Land / Penny van Toorn -- Explorer hermeneutics, or Fat damper and sweetened tea / Roland Boer -- Surveying the promised land: Elizabeth Jolley's Milk and honey / Dorothy Jones -- Which good book? Missionary education and conversion in colonial India / Sanjay Seth -- A Pisgah sight of Ireland: religious embodiment and colonialism in Ulysses / Amardeep Singh -- In praise of polytheism / John Docker -- The word set in blood and stone: the book of God from tribes to kingdoms and nations / Paul James -- Response. A real presence, subsumed by others: the Bible in colonial and postcolonial contexts / Gerald West.

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