Contextual biblical hermeneutics as multicentric dialogue : : towards a Singaporean reading of Daniel / / by Chin Ming Stephen Lim.

• VerfasserIn: Lim, Chin Ming Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 175.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 pages).
• Notes: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--King's College London, 2017, titled Asian Biblical hermeneutics as multicentric dialogue : towards a Singaporean way of reading.

In this book, Stephen Lim offers a contextual way of reading biblical texts that reconceptualises context as an epistemic space caught between the modern/colonial world system and local networks of knowledge production. In this light, he proposes a multicentric dialogical approach that takes into account the privilege of specialist readers in relation to nonspecialist readers. At the same time, he rethinks what dialogue with the Other means in a particular context, which then decides the conversation partners brought in from the margins. This is applied to his context in Singapore through a reading of Daniel where perspectives from western biblical scholarship, Asian traditions and Singaporean cultural products are brought together to dialogue on issues of transformative praxis and identity formation.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Reading the Bible in Asia Today -- A Singaporean Way of Reading -- Challenges That Confront Any Attempt to Construct a Contextual Hermeneutic -- Reading and Nonspecialist Readers: Raising Consciousness -- Reading and the Other: A Framework for Conversation -- From the Abstract to the Concrete: Reading the Stories of Daniel in Singapore -- Making Connections -- Reading Daniel 1 in the Classroom of National Education -- Braving the Furnace of the Lion’s Den in the Lion City -- Whose Dreams? -- Daniel: From the Ancient Near East to Singapore -- Conclusion: Possible Futures for Bible and Asia? -- Back Matter -- Appendix 1: Postcolonial and Decolonial: ‘Same Same but Different’ -- Bibliography -- Index.