Voices From The Margin: Interpreting The Bible In The Third World

Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World

A long-anticipated revision of a classic text, shedding new light on the Biblical concerns of the traditionally underrepresented cultures and churches of a truly global Christianity.This 25th Anniversary edition of a classic text offers a significant revision of an important resource for World Christianity. A new introduction and afterword call attention to new developments in biblical interpretation, while eleven new essays from various authors offer Global South applications of Biblical passages and teachings. Some essays are specific to given cultures, while others offer broader analysis of Biblical passages with insights into economics and social conditions in the nations of the Global South.Review"Recommended to all scholars and students of the Bible, especially those whose own social location is in the so-called First World." --Catholic Biblical Quarterly"A very useful textbook which puts biblical study today in a broad context and contains many unusual insights." --Journal for the Study of the Old Testament"Successfully reintroduces and builds upon complex, different, and often conflicting issues that are found within biblical scholarship today.... It is good to once again be invited to draw and drink deeply from the overflowing and interflowing well of wisdom and insight." --The Catholic Biblical QuarterlyAbout the AuthorR.S. Sugirtharajah is Professor Emeritus in Biblical Hermeneutics at Birmingham University, U.K. He is author and editor of significant volumes on biblical studies, and his writings have been translated into multiple languages around the globe.