R. S. Sugirtharajah is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham.
If Said admits in Orientalism that he has not done enough on the
relationship between 'Biblical scholarship' and 'modern
Orientalism,' Sugirtharajah's The Bible and Asia will contribute to
help fill that lacuna and more!
*Tat-Siong Benny Liew, author of What Is Asian American Biblical
Hermeneutics?*
This compelling book tells a story few know and even fewer
suspect--the story of Asia in the Bible and the Bible in Asia.
Sugirtharajah's readers will look at the Bible with new eyes.
*Karel van der Toorn, author of Scribal Culture and the Making
of the Hebrew Bible*
This is the cumulation of many years of serious, daring, and
creative scholarship. There is no doubt that Sugirtharajah has in
this book set the standard and provided the foundation on which all
subsequent work on the subject will be based.
*Vincent L. Wimbush, author of White Men's Magic:
Scripturalization as Slavery*
[Sugirtharajah] focuses on how the Bible has been a beacon of
colonial and post-colonial exegesis and how it has been utilized
for religious and political motives in Asia…[A] fascinating and
illuminating survey.
*Publishers Weekly*
The book on the whole makes an interesting study, not just of the
religion but of the people who were in direct contact through
religious practices, of other regions and their reactions…The
author deals with the subject dispassionately, and with a
remarkable detachment; nowhere he seems to have taken sides with
the people he is dealing with, a point which makes the book an
excellent read…This book is a stimulating work; it explores the
complex relationship between the Bible of the colonialists and the
conquered. It goes far beyond the conventional studies provided so
far, which were mostly one-sided and looked from the colonial point
of view. In this work he packs a lot of information such as the
complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise
examining in depth some areas that have been overlooked in earlier
studies.
*The Hindu*
The book covers an impressive amount of ground, from how the Bible
has been utilized by marginalized groups to the most vibrant arenas
of contemporary scholarship…As it stands, this is an important
book.
*Catholic Herald*
It should particularly engage scholars interested in the encounter
between Christianity and the religions of Asia, offering examples
of both the creative use of the Bible by non-Christians and the
influence of Asian religions on European biblical hermeneutics.
*Choice*
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