Description
Book SynopsisBiblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in contemporary Kenya and to utilize those critical tools to illuminate the Hebrew Bible narratives concerning the Moabites.
This book can be used by teachers and students of contemporary methods in Hebrew Bible studies, postcolonial studies, Africana studies, African biblical hermeneutics, political science, gender studies, history, philosophy, international studies, religion and peace studies, African affairs, and ethnic/racial conflict and resolution studies. It would also be of immense value to clergy and lay leaders engaged in interfaith or interethnic/racial dialogue.
Table of ContentsContents: Postcolonial (Postexilic) Context of Israelite-Moabite Representations – Methodological Concerns – Israelite-Moabite Ethnic Representations in the Hebrew Bible – Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations in Postcolonial Kenya – Israelite-Moabite Representations: Recasting the Story – General Concluding Remarks.
