TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roth,Federico A.
TI  - Hyphenating Moses: A Postcolonial Exegesis of Identity in Exodus 1:1-3:15
T2  - Biblical Interpretation Series
SN  - 9789004343559
AV  - BS1245.52.R68 2017 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Moses-(Biblical leader)
KW  - Bible.-Exodus, I-III, 15-Postcolonial criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Introduction: Pitfalls and Possibilities in Exodus -- ‎Introduction -- ‎The Trouble with Interpreting Exodus from the Margins -- ‎Redeploying Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: A Middle Way -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 1. The Contours of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism -- ‎Introduction -- ‎The Features of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism -- ‎A Critique of Interpretive Authority: Reacting to Euroamerican Hegemony in Biblical Studies -- ‎A Critique of Classical Pan-Liberationist Theology: Similarities and Divergences -- ‎A Critique of Temporal Fixity: The Issue of Hyphenization -- ‎Interrogation and Reclamation: The Bible in Postcolonial Biblical Criticism -- ‎Contrapuntal Reading -- ‎Re-conceptualizing Identity as Hybridity -- ‎From Hermeneutical Symphony to Hermeneutical Jazz: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 2. An Incomplete Picture: The Book of Exodus in Postcolonial Discourse -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Edward W. Said on Exodus -- ‎Robert Allen Warrior on Exodus -- ‎Musa W. Dube on Exodus -- ‎Gale A. Yee on Exodus -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 3. Identity under Construction: Contrasting Pharaonic Exclusivism with Hybridic Resistance (Exodus 1:1-2:10) -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Identity as Difference: Pharaoh's Binary Ideology (Exodus 1:1-14) -- ‎Pharaoh's Animalizing Rhetoric -- ‎Pharaoh's Effacement of the Hyphenated -- ‎Pharaoh's Use of Hyperbole and Exclusivist Pronouns -- ‎Pharaoh's Counterfeit Collectivity -- ‎Pharaoh's Successful Racialization of Egypt -- ‎Identity as Commodity: Pharaoh's Assimilationist and Ethnocentric Tactics (Exodus 1:15-16) -- ‎Identity Re-defined: Difference as a Tool for Resistance and the Midwives' Hybridic Way (Exodus 1:17-19) -- ‎Identity Re-entrenched: Pharaoh's Ethnocentric Call to Action (Exodus 1:20-22); ‎Identity Made Complex: The Inclusive Pliability of Pharaoh's Daughter and "Moses" (Exodus 2:1-10) -- ‎Resistance Repeated and Pharaoh's Daughter Anticipated -- ‎The Royal Daughter's Sensitizing Effect -- ‎"Moses" as Linguistic Hybridization -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 4. Identity Destruction: Moses' Quadruple Displacement (Exodus 2:11-22) -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Identity in Crisis: Moses' Failure to Embody Plurality (Exodus 2:11-15a) -- ‎Moses' Conflicted Subconscious -- ‎Moses' Realized Internal Conflict -- ‎Identity as Self-Erasure: Moses' Personal Denunciation (Exodus 2:15b-22) -- ‎Glimmers of Transformation -- ‎Moses' Misidentification and Continued Dislocation -- ‎The Meaning/s of Gershom -- ‎Divergent Understandings of ‮גר הייתי בארץ נכריה‬‎ -- ‎The Disruptive Combination of ‮גר‬‎ and ‮נכרי‬‎ -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 5. Identity Reconstruction: Yhwh's Avowal of Liminality (Exodus 2:23-3:15) -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Identity En Route to Renewal: The Divine Incursion and the Discordant Sign of the Fiery Bush (Exodus 2:23-3:3) -- ‎Identity Disputed: Divine Assurances and Moses' "Who Am I?" (Exodus 3:4-12) -- ‎Identity as Enduring Fragmentation: Moses' Continued Re/Dejection (Exodus 3:13) -- ‎Identity as Divine and Human Hybridity: Yhwh's Redefinition of Crisis and the Redemption of Moses (Exodus 3:14-15) -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 6. Retrospect and Prospect: Reviewing Findings and Mapping Contrapuntal Contact Zones in the Remainder of Exodus -- ‎Retrospect -- ‎Prospect -- ‎Contrapuntal Contact Zones in Exodus -- ‎Furthering the Identity Investigation -- ‎Diaspora Hermeneutics -- ‎The Persian Shadow -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index of Modern Authors -- ‎Index of Biblical Texts -- ‎Old Testament -- ‎New Testament -- ‎Index of Subjects
N2  - In Hyphenating Moses Federico Alfredo Roth challenges reductive treatments of Exodus by mainstream postcolonial scholarship. Roth's discussion redeploys postcolonial theory to offer an alternative reading of its early narratives (1:1-3:15) that centers on the theme of identity formation
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