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Author:   Chin Ming Stephen Lim
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   175
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9789004395077

ISBN 10:   9004395075
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   09 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Reading the Bible in Asia Today  1 Context and Contextualism  2 Biblical Scholar as Public Intellectual  3 The Bible as Dangerous Other  4 Towards a Singaporean Way of Reading Part 1: A Singaporean Way of Reading 1 Challenges that Confront Any Attempt to Construct a Contextual Hermeneutic  1 The Public of Academy: Local Entanglements with the West  2 The Public of Church: Negotiating Fundamentalism and Its Excesses  3 The Public of Society: Friend or Foe?  4 Bringing the Three Publics Together 2 Reading and Nonspecialist Readers: Raising Consciousness  1 Reading Without: Excluding Nonspecialist Readers  2 Reading For: Nonspecialist Readers as Passive Recipients  3 Reading With: In Solidarity with Nonspecialist Readers  4 Reading From: A Necessary Intervention 3 Reading and the Other: A Framework for Conversation  1 Who Defines Context?  2 Dangers of Territorialism  3 Dialoguing with An(-)Other  4 Singaporean Biblical Hermeneutic as Multicentric Dialogue Part 2: From the Abstract to the Concrete: Reading the Stories of Daniel in Singapore 4 Making Connections  1 Building Bridges  2 Dynamics of Empires  3 Contextual Questions 5 Reading Daniel 1 in the Classroom of National Education  1 Daniel 1: More than Food?  2 Biblical Scholars: Piety or Protest  3 Daniel the Confucian Gentleman?  4 Daniel the Malay Muslim: Between Resistance and Oppression  5 In Conversation: Biblical Scholars, Confucius and Malays 6 Braving the Furnace of the Lion’s Den in the Lion City  1 Daniel 3 and 6: Tales of Political Intrigue  2 Biblical Scholars: Piety or Politics?  3 Gandhi: Politics of Piety  4 Singaporean Political Prisoners: Piety and Politics  5 In Conversation: Biblical Scholars, Satyagrahi and Political Prisoners 7 Whose Dreams?  1 Dreams and Visions in the Stories of Daniel  2 Biblical Scholars: Dreams of Falling Empires  3 Buddhist Interpreters: Dreams of Transcending Empires  4 Ma: Dreams of Empires?  5 In Conversation: Biblical Scholars, Buddhist Interpreters and Ma 8 Daniel: From the Ancient Near East to Singapore  1 Revisiting the Question of Religion and Politics in a Secular Society  2 Responding to Capitalism: Logic of Purity to Logic of Impurity  3 Relooking the Bible: Defamiliarising the Familiar  4 Who is the Christian?  5 A Debt Unpaid Conclusion: Possible Futures for Bible and Asia?  1 Biblical Hermeneutics and Contextualism  2 Conclusion Appendix 1: Postcolonial and Decolonial: ‘Same Same but Different’ Bibliography

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Stephen Lim, Ph.D. (2016), King’s College London is an adjunct lecturer at Hong Kong Sheng Kong Hui Ming Hua Theological College. His recent publications include The Impe(/a)rative of Dialogue in Asian Hermeneutics within the Modern/Colonial World System: Renegotiating Biblical Pasts for Planetary Futures (Biblical Interpretation, 2017).

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