A Filipino Resistance Reading of Joshua 1: 1-9 Contributor(s): Fetalsana-Apura, Lily (Author) |
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ISBN: 1628372249 ISBN-13: 9781628372243 Publisher: SBL Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament |
LCCN: 2019932273 |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 238 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: Lily Fetalsana-Apura recontextualizes Joshua 1:1-9, a text that has been used to legitimize Western conquests and imperialism, as a resistance text using contextual hermeneutics. Going beyond historical questions, she reads the Former Prophets as countering and resisting impositions of surrounding imperial forces. Fetalsana-Apura interprets Joshua 1:1-9 as exhorting strength and courage against exploitation and domination by empire and outlines the ways that its meaning can be translated as resisting empire to marginalized and exploited communities such as the Philippines. |