John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space, and Power(Bible and Postcolonialism)

An exciting collection of essays connecting postcolonialism and the Gospel of John, written by a group of international scholars, both established and new, from Hispanic, African, Jewish, Chinese, Korean and African-American backgrounds. It explores important topics such as the appropriation of John in settler communities of the United States and Canada, and the use of John in the colonisation of Africa, Asia, Latin America and New Zealand.The interpreters represent communities of borderland dwellers, women in colonised settings, minority ethnic groups within colonised centres and others. In an era of rapid globalisation, increased travel, rising diasporic communities and neo-colonialism, it is crucial that biblical scholars find ways to address this world with critical skill and sensitivity. This book fills this need.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Descending from and Ascending into Heaven: A Postcolonial Analysis of Travel, Space, and Power in John Musa W. Dube and Jeffrey L. Staley; To Prepare a Place: Johannine Christianity and the Collapse of Ethnic Territory; 'Dis Place, Man': A Postcolonial Critique of the Vine (the Mountain and the Temple) in the Gospel of John; Reading for Decolonization (John 4.1-42); Contesting an Interpretation of John 5: Moving beyond Colonial Evangelism; Maori 'Jews' and a Resistant reading of John 5.10-47; Adultery or Hybridity?: Reading John 7.53-8.11 from a Postcolonial Context; Border-crossing and Its Redemptive Power in John 7.53-8.11: A Cultural Reading of Jesus and the Accused; Building toward 'Nation-ness' in the Vine: A Postcolonial Critique of John 15.1-8; The Colonized as Colonizer: Intertextual Dialogue between the Gospel of John and Canadian; Ambiguous Admittance: Consent and Descent in John's Community of 'Upward'Mobility'

About the Author :
Musa Dube is affiliated to the University of Botswana and member of the Society of Biblical Literature. Jeffrey L. Staley is the author of numerous essays on Jesus and film, and co-founder of the SBL Bible and Film Program Unit. He taught a variety of theology and film courses for many years in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University, USA, and is now retired.