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

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...

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Superior document:Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume 154
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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).
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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.