Hyphenating Moses : : a postcolonial exegesis of identity in Exodus 1:1-3:15 / / Federico Alfredo Roth.

• Superior document: Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume 154
• VerfasserIn: Roth, Federico Alfredo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 154.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages).

Postcolonial biblical criticism took shape, largely, by critiquing the book of Exodus. Because of the eventual dispossession of Canaanites in the conquest narratives, so goes the thinking, the Hebrews’ God amounts to little more than a dangerous, destructive, and ethnocentric figure. In Hyphenating Moses Federico Alfredo Roth challenges this consensus by providing an alternative reading of its early narratives (1:1-3:15). Redeploying postcolonial theory and themes, Roth presents a reading of these well-known scenes as orbiting around the topic of identity formation, climaxing in the burning bush episode. In the giving of the name, YHWH promotes the virtue of conceiving identity as a malleable reality to be sought after by all parties caught in the dehumanizing discourse of colonial subjugation.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Federico Alfredo Roth -- Introduction: Pitfalls and Possibilities in Exodus / Federico Alfredo Roth -- The Contours of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism / Federico Alfredo Roth -- An Incomplete Picture: The Book of Exodus in Postcolonial Discourse / Federico Alfredo Roth -- Identity under Construction: Contrasting Pharaonic Exclusivism with Hybridic Resistance (Exodus 1:1–2:10) / Federico Alfredo Roth -- Identity Destruction: Moses’ Quadruple Displacement (Exodus 2:11–22) / Federico Alfredo Roth -- Identity Reconstruction: Yhwh’s Avowal of Liminality (Exodus 2:23–3:15) / Federico Alfredo Roth -- Retrospect and Prospect: Reviewing Findings and Mapping Contrapuntal Contact Zones in the Remainder of Exodus / Federico Alfredo Roth -- Bibliography / Federico Alfredo Roth -- Indices / Federico Alfredo Roth.