Table of Contents
Editor's Foreword
Abbreviations
Preface
The Present Status of Old Testament Theology
Introduction
Reasons for the Collapse of History
After the Collapse of History
New Approaches: The Fundamental Assumptions
Description of the Present Task
From History as Event to the History of Religion: Religionsgeschichte and Biblical Theology
Introduction
The History of Religion and/or Biblical Theology?
The Theology of Jeremiah and the History of Religion
Evaluation
From Eurocentric History to Voices from the Margins: Liberation Theology and Ethnic Biblical Interpretation
Introduction
Liberation Theology in Latin America
Segovia's Theology of the Diaspora
African American Theology and Biblical Interpretation
Jeremiah and a Theology of the Diaspora
Jeremiah and African American Biblical Theology
Evaluation
From Exclusion to Inclusion: Feminist Interpretations of History
Introduction
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Discovering Eve: Carol Meyer's Feminist Social History of Ancient Israel
A Critical Feminist Liberationist Interpretation of the Book of Jeremiah
Evaluation
From History to Rhetoric: Feminist, Mujerista, and Womanist Theologies
Introduction
Feminist Literary Critics and Biblical Interpretation
Feminist Metaphorical Theology: Sallie McFague
Recapturing the Language of Zion: Rhetorical Criticism and Feminist Hermeneutics
Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Mujerista Biblical Interpretation
Evaluation
From Jewish Tradition to Biblical Theology: The Tanakh as a Source for Jewish Theology and Practice
Introduction
Jews Who Do Biblical Theology
From Traditum to Traditio: Michael Fishbane
Exegetical Imagination: Midrashic and Mythopoeic Images
The Myth of the Return to Chaos in Jeremiah
Conclusion
From History to Cultural Context: Postmodernism
Postmodernism: Tenets and Theorists
Postmodernism and Biblical Interpretation
Postmodernism, Biblical Theology, and Jeremiash: Walter Brueggemann
The Value and Limits of Postmodernism
From the Colonial Bible to the Postcolonial Text: Biblical Theology as Contextual
Postcolonialism
The Stages of Postcolonialism and Its Impact on Subaltern Religion
Characteristics of Subaltern Writings and Readings in Religion and Theology
Voices from the Third World: Male and Female
Postcolonial Biblical Theology in Geographical Settings: The Case of Senegal
A Second Example of Postcolonial Biblical Theology: India and Dalit Theology
A Postcolonial Interperation of the Theology of Jeremiah
The Changing Future of Old Testament Theology: A Postscript
Concluding Observations
Constructing a Paradigm for Old Testament Theology
Bibliography
Index of Modern Names
Index of Scripture
