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Scholarship March 29, 2017

When the Text Is the Problem: A Postcolonial Approach to Biblical Pedagogy

The Wabash Center

Author
Lee, Boyung
Publisher
Religious Education, Vol. 106, No. 1, Winter 2007, pgs 44-61
Postcolonial biblical scholars use the hermeneutics of decolonization to reinterpret the biblical text. One goal is to find contemporary applications for an age-old message. This article explores the challenges and implications of postcolonial hermeneutics for biblical pedagogy. First, the author explores fundamental hermeneutical principles of postcolonial biblical criticism. Then she reviews its challenges for a liberative biblical pedagogy. Finally, the author applies these principles to a Bible study using the story of Hagar.