Hyphenating Moses : A Postcolonial Exegesis of Identity in Exodus 1:1-3:15.

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.

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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