The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
82. What Is Post-Colonial Studies and How Is It Applied to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Sonia Wong [+]
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sonia Wong holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Vanderbilt University. Her research includes the postcolonial-psychoanalytic criticism of the Deuteronomistic (Hi)Story, cross-textual hermeneutics, and feminist criticism. Her publications include The Solomonic Fantasy of the Imperialized Yehudites (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming) and “Signifying the Empire against the Empire or Doing Historical Criticism with Postcolonial Theories,” in Heilige Schriften in der Kritik: XVII. Europäischer Kongress fur Theologie (5.–8. September 2021 in Zurich). Edited by Konrad Schmid (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2022), 125–142.
Description
Biblical texts were produced within imperial contexts that conditioned the practices of the writers. Postcolonial critics analyze ethnicity, identity, hybridity, exile, diaspora, displacement, homecoming, transculturation, and othering, making postcolonialism an indispensable tool for unraveling the imperial ideologies and resistance to such ideologies in the Hebrew Bible.