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Matthew and Empire
 
Carter, Warren.  Matthew and Empire: Initial Explorations.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2001.
 
Riches, John and David C. Sim, eds.  The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context, JSNTSup.  Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2005.

 
Women in Mark: Postcolonial Perspectives
 
Joy, C. I. David.  "The Social and Religious Origins of the Gospel of Mark and Its Hermeneutical Implications: A Post-Colonial Critique."  Bangalore Theological Forum 33:1 (2001) 1-24.
 
Liew, T.  "Tyranny, Boundary and Might: Colonial Mimicry in Mark's Gospel."  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 73 (1999).

Paul's Letters in the Context of the Roman Empire
 
Barraclough, Ray.  "Romans 13:1-7: Application in Context."   Colloquium 17 (1985) 16-21.
 
D'Angelo, Mary Rose.  "Eusebeia: Roman Imperial Family Values and the Sexual Politics of 4 Maccabees and the Pastorals."  Biblical Interpretation 11 (2 2003) 139-65.
 
Dewey, Arthur J.  "Eis ten Spanian: The Future and Paul."  In Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in the New Testament World: Essays Honoring Dieter Georgi (ed. Lukas Bormann, Kelly Del Tredici and Angela Standhartinger; NovTSup 74; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994) 321-49.
 
Elliott, Neal.  "Strategies of Resistance and Hidden Transcripts in the Pauline Communities."  In Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul (ed. Richard A. Horsley; Semeia Studies 48; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004) 97-122.
 
Heen, Erik M.  "The Role of Symbolic Inversion in Utopian Discourse: Apocalyptic Reversal in Paul and in the Festival of the Saturnalia/Kronia."  In Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul (ed. Richard A. Horsley; Semeia Studies 48; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004) 123-44.
 
Horsley, Richard A., ed.  Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1997.
 
Keresztes, Paul.  "The Imperial Roman Government and the Christian Church, I: From Nero to the Severi."  Principat 23/1: Vorkonstantinisches Christentum (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1979) 247-315.
 
Oropeza, B. J.  "Echoes of Isaiah in the Rhetoric of Paul: New Exodus, Wisdom, and the Humility of the Cross in Utopian-Apocalyptic Expectations."  In The Intertexture of Apocalyptic Discourse in the New Testament (ed. Duane F. Watson; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002) 87-112.

 
The Kingdom of God: The Empire Writes Back
 
Anonby, John A.  "Grim Present, Glorious Future: Millennial Implications in the Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong'o."  In Faith in the Millennium (ed. Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs; Roehampton Institute London Papers 7; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) 372-86.
 
Awwad, Johnny.  "The Kingdom of God and the State: Jesus' Attitude to the Power and Governing Structures of His Day."  Theological Review 22 (2001) 35-60.
 
Bailey, Mark L.  "The Kingdom of God in the Parables of Matthew 13."  Bibliotheca sacra 155 (1998) 29-38, 172-88, 266-79, and 449-59.
 
Bieringer, Reimund.  "'My Kingship Is Not of This World' (Jn 18:36): The Kingship of Jesus and Politics."  In The Myriad Christ: Plurality and the Quest for Unity in Contemporary Christology (ed. T. Merrigan and J. Haers; BETL 152; Sterling, Virginia: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2000)159-75.
 
Bock, Darrell L.  "The Kingdom of God in New Testament Theology."  In Looking into the Future: Evangelical Studies in Eschatology (ed. David W. Baker; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2001) 28-60.
 
Carter, Warren.  "Resisting and Imitating the Empire: Imperial Paradigms in Two Matthean Parables."  Interpretation 56 (2002) 260-72.
 
Dunn, James D. G.  "Jesus and the Kingdom: How Would His Message Have Been Heard?"  In Neotestamentica et Philonica: Studies in Honor of Peder Borgen (ed. David E. Aune, Torrey Seland and Jarl Henning Ulrichsen; NovTSup 106; Boston: Brill, 2003) 3-36.
 
DuRand, J. A.  "'Your Kingdom Come "On Earth as it is in Heaven"': The Theological Motif of the Apocalypse of John."  Neotestamentica 31 (1997) 59-75.
 
Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences.  "The Kingdom of God and Evangelization in Asia."  Studia Missionalia 46 (1997) 293-326.
 
Foster, Robert.  "Why on Earth Use 'Kingdom of Heaven'? Matthew's Terminology Revisited."  New Testament Studies 48 (2002) 487-99.
 
Fuellenbach, John.  "The Kingdom of God in Latin American Liberation Theology."  Studia Missionalia 46 (1997) 267-91.
 
Horsley, Richard A.  Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.
 
--------.  "The Kingdom of God and the Renewal of Israel: Synoptic Gospels, Jesus Movements, and Apocalypticism."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 1, The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity (ed. John J. Collins; New York: Continuum, 1998) 303-344.
 
Humphries, Michael L.  Christian Origins and the Language of the Kingdom of God.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
 
Kelber, Werner H.  "Roman Imperialism and Early Christian Scribality."  In Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity (ed. Jonathan A. Draper; Semeia Studies 47; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004) 135-53.
 
Lewis, Jack P.  "'The Kingdom of God...Is Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Spirit' (Rom 14:17): A Survey of Interpretation."  Restoration Quarterly 40 (1998) 53-68.
 
Longenecker, Richard N., ed.  The Challenge of Jesus' Parables.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2000.
[See the essays by Morna D. Hooker, Donald A. Hagner, and Sylvia C. Keesmaat.]
Maloney, Elliott C.  Jesus' Urgent Message for Today: The Kingdom of God in Mark's Gospel.  New York: Continuum, 2004.
 
Moxnes, Halvor.  "Kingdom Takes Place: Transformations of Place and Power in the Kingdom of God in the Gospel of Luke."  In Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible: Essays by the Context Group in Honor of Bruce J. Malina (ed. John J. Pilch; Boston: Brill, 2001) 176-209.
 
Orobator, A. Emmanuel.  "The Idea of the Kingdom of God in African Theology."  Studia Missionalia 46 (1997) 327-57.
 
Phan, Peter C.  "Kingdom of God: A Theological Symbol for Asians?"  Gregorianum 79 (1998) 295-322.
 
Sarpong, Peter K.  "Asante Culture and the Kingdom of God."  Studia Missionalia 46 (1997) 359-84.
 
Sawicki, Marianne.  "Salt and Leaven: Resistances to Empire in the Street-smart Paleochurch."  In The Church as Counterculture (ed. Michael L. Budde and Robert W. Brimlow; SUNY Series in Popular Culture and Political CHange; Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000) 59-87.
 
Soesilo, Daud H.  "Translating 'The Kingdom of God' in the Malay Bible."  Bible Translator 52 (2001) 239-44.

Honor the Emperor: 1 Peter & the Haustafeln
 
Barraclough, Ray.  "Romans 13:1-7: Application in Context."   Colloquium (17 May 1985) 16-21.
 
Chin, Moses.  "A Heavenly Home for the Homeless: Aliens and Strangers in 1 Peter."  Tyndale Bulletin 42 (1991) 96-112.
 
D'Angelo, Mary Rose.  "Eusebeia: Roman Imperial Family Values and the Sexual Politics of 4 Maccabees and the Pastorals."  Biblical Interpretation 11 (2 2003) 139-65.
 
Elliott, John H.  A Home for the Homeless: A Social-Scientific Criticism of 1 Peter, Its Situation and Strategy.  Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1990.
 
Krentz, Edgar.  "Order in the 'House' of God: The Haustafel in 1 Peter 2:11–3:12."  In Common Life in the Early Church (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1998) 279-85.
 
Moy, Russel G.  "Resident Aliens of the Diaspora: 1 Peter and Chinese Protestants in San Francisco."  In The Bible in Asian America (ed. Tat siong Benny Liew and Gale A. Yee; Semeia 90–91; 2002) 51-67.
 
Munro, Winsome.  "Romans 13:1-7: Apartheid's Last Biblical Refuge."  Biblical Theology Bulletin 20 (1990) 161-8.
 
Snyder, Scot.  "1 Peter 2:17: A Reconsideration."  Filologia neotestamentaria 4 (8 1991) 211-215.
 
Thuren, Lauri.  "Jeremiah 27 and Civil Obedience in 1 Peter."  In Zwischen den Reichen: Neues Testament und Römische Herrschaft: Vorträge auf der ersten Konferenz der European Association for Biblical Studies (ed. Michael Labahn and Jürgen Zangenberg; Tübingnen: A. Francke, 2002) 215-28.
 
Van Rensburg, Fika.  "Christians as 'Resident and Visiting Aliens': Implications of the Exhortations to the paroikoi and parepidemoi in 1 Peter for the Church in South Africa."  Neotestamentica 32 (1998) 573-83.
 
Warden, Duane.  "Imperial Persecution and the Dating of 1 Peter and Revelation."  Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 34 (1991) 203-212.

Revelation in Postcolonial Perspective
 
Bauckham, Richard J.  "The Economic Critique of Rome in Revelation 18."  In The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993) 338-83.
 
Blunt, Alison and Gillian Rose, eds.  Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies.  New York: Guildford, 1994.
 
Howard-Brook, Wes and Anthony Gwyther.  Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now, Bible & Liberation Series.   Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1999.
 
Collins, Adela Yarbro.  Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984.
 
Donaldson, Laura.  Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire-Building.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
 
--------, ed.  Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading, Semeia 75.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
 
Dube, Musa W.  Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible.  St. Louis: Chalice, 2000.
 
Frilingos, Christopher A.  Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
 
Kelber, Werner H.  "Roman Imperialism and Early Christian Scribality."  In Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity (ed. Jonathan A. Draper; Semeia Studies 47; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004) 135-53.
 
Keller, Catherine.  Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World.  Boston: Beacon, 1996.
 
Kim, Jean K.  "'Uncovering Her Wickedness': An Inter(con)textual Reading of Revelation 17 from a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective."   Journal for the Study of the New Testament 73 (1999) 61-81.
 
Lorde, Audre.  "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House."  In The Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colour (ed. C. Morraga and G. Anzalda; Waterdown, Massachusetts: Persephone, 1981); reprinted in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Freedom, California: Crossing Press, 1984).
 
Pippin, Tina.  Death and Desire: The Rhetoric of Gender in the Apocalypse of John, Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1992.
 
Rhoads, David, ed.  From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
 
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob and Sharon Ringe, eds.  Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Semeia 78.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.



Historical Papers
 
 
Eusebius' Use of the New Testament to Fuse Christianity & Empire
 
Ahrweiler, Helene.  "Eusebius of Caesarea and the Imperial Christian Idea."  In Caesarea Maritima: Retrospective after Two Millennia (ed. Avner Raban and Kenneth G. Holum; Leiden: E J Brill, 1996) 541-46.
 
Cameron, Averil.  "Eusebius' Vita Constantini and the Construction of Constantine."  In Portraits: Biographical Representations in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire (ed. Mark J. Edwards and Simon Swain; Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997) 145-74.
 
Eusebius of Caesarea.  Life of Constantine, trans. Averil Cameron and Stuart G. Hall (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Check how Eusebius uses scripture to lionize the Roman emperor; see how Eusebius depicts the imperial mission of Constantine.
Grant, Robert McQueen. "Eusebius and Imperial Propaganda." In Eusebius, Christianity, and Judaism (ed. Harold W. Attridge and Gohei Hata; Detroit: Wayne State Univeristy Press, 1992) 658-83.
 
Hollerich, Michael J.  Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Isaiah: Christian Exegesis in the Age of Constantine, Oxford Early Christian Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Hollerich's thesis is that the Eusebius believed the Christian church to be the Godly Polity that Isaiah prophesied, now coming to fruition in the Christian empire.
--------.  "Religion and Politics in the Writings of Eusebius: Reassessing the First 'Court Theologian.'"  Church History 59 (1990) 309-325.
 
Rapp, Claudia.  "Imperial Ideology in the Making: Eusebius of Caesarea on Constantine as 'Bishop.'"  Journal of Theological Studies 49 (1998) 685-95.
 
Schott, Jeremy M. "Philosophies of Language, Theories of Translation,a nd Imperial Intellectual Production: The Cases of Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Eusebius." Church History 78:4 (2009) 855-61.
 
Tabbernee, William.  "Eusebius' 'Theology of Persecution': As Seen in the Various Editions of his Church History."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 5 (1997) 319-34.
If Eusebius wants to portray the Roman Empire as a Christian Empire, he will have to address the uncomfortable fact that, in the life of his readers, Rome had a history of persecuting Christianity.

Greek Christian Resistance to the Ottoman Empire
 
Braude, Benjamin and Bernard Lewis, eds.  Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society, vol. 1, The Central Lands.  New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1982.
 
Constantelos, Demetrios J.  "The 'Neomartyrs' as Evidence for Methods and Motives Leading to Conversion and Martyrdom in the Ottoman Empire."  Greek Orthodox Theological Review 23 (1978) 216-234.
 
Gervers, Michael and Ramzi Jibran Bikhazi.  Conversion and Continuity: Indigenous Christian Communities in Islamic Lands Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries.  Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1990.
 
Karpat, Kemal H.  "Ottoman Views and Policies towards the Orthodox Christian Church."  Greek Orthodox Theological Review 31 (1986) 131-155.
 
Simon, Rachel.  "The Struggle over the Christian Holy Places during the Ottoman Period."  In Vision and Conflict in the Holy Land (ed. Richard I. Cohen; New York: St Martin's Press, 1985) 23-44.
 
Vaporis, Nomikos M.  Witnesses for Christ: Orthodox Christian Neomartyrs of the Ottoman Period, 1437-1860.  Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2000.

Bartolomé de las Casas and the Spanish Critique of Colonization in Latin America
 
Bennett, Herman L.  Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570–1640.   Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
 
Dahlen, Robert W.  "Bartolome de las Casas: Ethics and the Eschaton."  Word and World 22 (2002) 284-94.
 
Greenblatt, Stephen.  Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
 
Gutiérrez, Gustavo.  Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1993.
 
Las Casas, Bartolomé de.  The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account, trans. Herma Briffault. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
 
--------.  In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa, against the Persecutors and Slanderers of the Peoples of the New World Discovered across the Seas, trans. and ed. Stafford Poole.  DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992.
 
Majid, Anouar.  Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004.
 
Overmeyer-Velazquez, Rebecca.  "Christian Morality in Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary."  In Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (ed. Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton; Durham, North Carolina; Duke University Press, 2005) 67-83.
 
Root, Deborah.  "'Speaking Christian': Orthodoxy and Difference in Sixteenth Century Spain."  Representations 23 (1988) 118-32.
 
Ruiz, Jean-Pierre.  "Cardinal Francisco Ximenez de Cisneros and Bartolome de las Casas, the 'Procurator and Universal Protector of all Indians in the Indies.'"  Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 9 (2002) 60-77.
 
Sale, Kirkpatrick.  The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy.  New York: Plume, 1991.
 
Young, Robert J. C.  "Las Casas to Bentham."  In Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2001) 73-87.

The Use of the New Testament in the Case of the Dalits in India
 
Copley, Antony.  Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late Colonial India.  Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.
 
De Souza, Teotonio.  "The Christian Missions in the Aftermath of Discoveries: Tools for Shaping the Colonial Other?"  In Discoveries, Missionary Expansion and Asian Cultures (ed. Teotonio R. de Souza; New Delhi: Concept, 1994) 33-44.
 
King, Richard.  Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the "Mystic East."  London: Routledge, 1999.
 
Seth, Sanjay.  "Which Good Book? Missionary Education and Conversion in Colonial India."  In A Vanishing Mediator? The Presence/Absence of the Bible in Postcolonialism (ed. Roland Boer and Gerald West; Semeia 88; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001) 113-28.
 
Studdert-Kennedy, Gerald.  Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism.  Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira, 1998.
 
Sugirtharajah, R. S.  The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters, The Bible and the Third World.   New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
 
--------.  "Imperial Critical Commentaries: Christian Discourse and Commentarial Writings in Colonial India."  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 21 (1998) 83-112.
 
--------.  "Postcolonialism and Indian Christian Theology" and "The Magi from Bengal and their Jesus: Indian Construals of Christ during Colonial Times."  In Postcolonial Reconfigurations: An Alternative Way of Reading the Bible and Doing Theology (St. Louis: Chalice, 2003) 117-42.
 
--------.  Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
 
--------.  Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995.
 
Viswantathan, Gauri.  Masks of Conquest.  New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.
 
Young, Richard Fox.  Resistant Hinduism.  Vienna: Institut für Indologie der Universität Wien, 1981.

The Role of the New Testament in the Colonization of the Middle East or Islamic Africa
 
Baker, Alison.  Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women.  Algany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
 
Burr, David.  "Antichrist and Islam in Medieval Franciscan Exegesis."  In Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays (ed. John Victor Tolan; New York: Garland, 1996) 131-52.
 
Erickson, John H.  Islam and Postcolonial Narrative.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
 
Fuchs, Barbara.  Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
 
Hassan, Wail S.  "Postcolonial Theory and Modern Arabid Literature: Horizons of Application."  Journal of Arabic Literature 33 (2002) 45-64.
 
Hatem, Mervat.  "Secularist and Islamist Disourses on Modernity in Egypt and the Evolution of the Postcolonial Nation-state."  In Islam, Gender, and Social Change (ed. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
 
Hawley, John C.  The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam's Impact on Contemporary Literature.  New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
 
Hoisington, William A., Jr.  Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
 
Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava.  "Some Neglected Aspects of Medieval Muslim Polemics against Christianity."  Harvard Theological Review 89 (1996) 61-84.
 
Maier, John.  Desert Songs: Western Images of Morocco and Moroccan Images of the West.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
 
Majid, Anouar.  Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004.
 
McAuliffe, Jane Dammen.  "The Qur'anic Context of Muslim Biblical Scholarship."  Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 7 (1996) 141-58.
 
Pagden, Anthony.  Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c. 1500-c. 1800.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
 
Root, Deborah.  "'Speaking Christian': Orthodoxy and Difference in Sixteenth Century Spain."  Representations 23 (1988) 118-32.
 
Ropi, Ismatu.  "Muslim-Christian Encounter in Post Colonial Indonesia."  Hamdard Islamicus 21 (1998) 49-54.
 
Salibi, Kamal S.  "Muslim Perceptions of Christianity—Christian Perceptions of Islam: The Historical Record."  Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 7 (March 1996) 7-93.
 
Scham, Alan.  Lyautey in Morocco: Protectorate Administration, 1912–1925.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
 
Sharafuddin, Mohammed.  Islam and Romantic Orientalism: Literary Encounters with the Orient.  New York: Tauris, 1994.
 
--------.  Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995.
 
Thomas, David.  "The Bible in Early Muslim Anti-Christian Polemic."  Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 7 (March 1996) 29-38.
 
Yacoubi, Youssef.  "Thinking a Critical Theory of Postcolonial Islam."  In Difference in Philosophy of Religion (ed. Philip Goodchild; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2003) 135-54.

The New Testament in African Biblical Interpretation
 
Anonby, John A.  "Grim Present, Glorious Future: Millennial Implications in the Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong'o."  In Faith in the Millennium (ed. Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs; Roehampton Institute London Papers 7; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) 372-86.
 
Bediako, Kwame.  Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of a Non-Western Religion.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995.
 
Draper, Jonathan A., ed.  Orality, Literacy and Colonialism in Southern Africa, Semeia Studies 46.  Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster/Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
 
Dube, Musa  "Consuming a Colonial Cultural Bomb: Translating Badimo into 'Demons' in the Setswana Bible (Matthew 8.28-34; 15.22; 10.8)."  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 73 (1999).
 
Lemarquand, Grant.  An Issue of Relevance: A Comparative Study of the Story of the Bleeding Woman (Mk 5:25-34; Mt 9:20-22; Lk 8:43-48) in North Atlantic and African Contexts, Bible and Theology in Africa 5.  New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
 
Maluleke, Tinyiko S.  "African Traditional Religions in Christian Mission and Christian Scholarship: Reopening a Debate That Never Started."  Religion and Theology 5 (1998) 121-37.
 
Mosala, Itumeleng.  Biblical Hermeneutics and Black Theology in South Africa.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1989.
 
--------.  "Race, Class, and Gender as Hermeneutical Factors in the African Independent Churches' Appropriation of the Bible."  In "Reading With": An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible, Semeia 73 (ed. Gerald West and Musa W. Dube; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996) 43-57.
 
Ndung'u, Nahashon W.  "The Role of the Bible in the Rise of African Instituted Churches: The Case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya."  In The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends (ed. Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube; Boston: Brill, 2001) 236-47.
 
Upkong, Justin.  "Developments in Biblical Interpretation in Africa: Historical and Hermeneutical Directions."  Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 108 (2000) 3-18.
 
Wabukala, Eliud and Grant LeMarquand.  "Cursed Be Everyone Who Hangs on A Tree: Pastoral Implications of Deuteronomy 21:22-23 and Galatians 3:13 in an African Context."  In The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends (ed. Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube; Boston: Brill, 2001) 350-59.
 
West, Gerald O. and Musa W. Dube, eds.  The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends.  Boston: Brill, 2001.

The New Testament in U.S. Political Rhetoric during the War in Iraq
 
Chapman, Stephen B.  "Imperial Exegesis: When Caesar Interprets Scripture."  In Anxious about Empire: Theological Essays on the New Global Realities (ed. Wes Avram; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos, 2004) 91-102.
 
Cherry, Conrad, ed.  God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny, rev. ed.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
 
Handy, R. T.  "The American Messianic Consciousness: The Concept of the Chosen People and Manifest Destiny."  Review and Expositor 73 (1976) 47-58.
 
Hughes, Richard T.  Myths America Lives By.  Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
 
Majid, Anouar.  Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004.
 
Sugirtharajah, R. S.  "Charting the Aftermath: A Review of Postcolonial Criticism."  In Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) 11-42.
 
Tuveson, E. L.  Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
 
Wallis, J.  "Dangerous Religion: George W. Bush's Theology of Empire."  Sojourners (September-October 2003) 20-26.
 
White House.  "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America."  The White House (17 September 2002). Online, http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html, 25 April 2005.

International Volunteerism and the Perpetuation of a Colonial Legacy
 

Australia and the Colonization of the Aboriginals
 
Boer, Roland.  Last Stop before Antarctica: The Bible and Postcolonialism in Australia, The Bible and Postcolonialism 6.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

The Uses of the New Testament in the Christian Evangelical Alliance with Israel
 
Boyer, Paul S.  "The Growth of Fundamentalistic Apocalyptic in the United States."  In Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 3, Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age (ed. Stephen J. Stein; New York: Continuum, 1998) 140-78.
 
Brasher, Brenda E.  "When Your Friend is Your Enemy: American Christian Fundamentalists and Israel at the New Millennium."  In Millennial Visions: Essays on Twentieth-Century Millenarianism (ed. Martha F. Lee; Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2000).
 
Chafets, Zev.  A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance.  New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
 
Handy, Robert T.  "Zion in American Christian Movements."  In Israel: Its Role in Civilization (ed. Moshe Davis; New York: The Seminary Israel Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary in America/Harper, 1956) 284-97.
 
Oren, Michael B.  Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America and the Middle East: 1776 to the Present.  New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.
 
Shupe, Anson.  "Christian Reconstructionism and the Angry Rhetoric of Neo-Postmillennialism."  In Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements (ed. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer; New York: Routledge, 1997) 195-206.
 
Stone, John R.  "Messianic Judaism: A Redefinition of the Boundary Between Christian and Jew."  In Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI, 1991) 237-52.

The Creation of the Jewish Other through New Testament Interpretation in the Third Reich
 
Bergen, Doris L.  "Old Testament, New Hatreds: The Hebrew Bible and Antisemitism in Nazi Germany."  In Sacred Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World (ed. Leonard Jay Greenspoon and Bryan F. LeBeau; Studies in Jewish Civilization 10; Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2000).  Reprinted at Mark Elliott and Vicki Cox, The Bible and Interpretation, online, http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/bergen_033001.htm.
 
Dube, Musa W. and Jeffrey L. Staley.  John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space and Power, Bible and Postcolonialism 5.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
 
Ericksen, Robert P.  "Christians and the Holocaust; The Wartime Writings of Gerhard Kittel."  In Remembering for the Future: Working Papers and Addenda (3 vols; ed. Yehuda Bauer et al.; Oxford: Pergamon, 1989) 3.2400-2414.
 
Heschel, Susannah.  "The Image of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Christian New Testament Scholarship in Germany."  In Jewish-Christian Encounters over the Centuries: Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue (ed. Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer; American University Studies, Series IX History 136; New York: Peter Lang, 1994) 215-40.
 
--------.  "Nazifying Christian Theology: Walter Grundmann and the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life."  Church History 63 (1994) 587-605.
 
--------.  "New Testament Scholarship on the 'Aryan Jesus' during the Third Reich."  In A Multiform Heritage: Studies in Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Robert A. Kraft (ed. Benjamin G. Wright; Scholars Press Homage Series 24; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999) 303-321.
 
--------.  "Redemptive Anti-Semitism: The De-Judaization of the New Testament in the Third Reich."  In Literary Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays in Honor of Joseph B. Tyson (ed. Richard P. Thompson and Thomas E. Phillips; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1998) 235-63.
 
--------.  "When Jesus was an Aryan: The Protestant Church and Antisemitic Propaganda."   In Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (ed. Robert P. Ericksen and Susannah Heschel; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999) 68-89, 202-205.

Theological Papers
 
The Bleeding Woman in Postcolonial Perspective
 
Avalos, Hector.  Health Care and the Rise of Christianity.   Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1999.
 
D'Angelo, Mary Rose.  "(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke-Acts."  In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 171-95.
 
--------.  "(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospels: John and Mark."  In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 129-49.
 
Dube, Musa W.  "Fifty Years of Bleeding: A Storytelling Feminist Reading of Mark 5:24-43."  The Ecumenical Review 51 (1999) 11-17; reprinted in Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible (ed. Musa W. Dube; Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2001) 50-60.
 
Horsley, Richard A.  Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
Kinukawa, Hisako.  "The Story of the Hemorrhaging Woman (Mark 5:25-34) Read from a Japanese Feminist Context."  Biblical Interpretation 2 (1994) 283-93.
 
--------.  Women and Jesus in Mark: A Japanese Feminist Perspective.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1994.
 
Lemarquand, Grant.  An Issue of Relevance: A Comparative Study of the Story of the Bleeding Woman (Mk 5:25-34; Mt 9:20-22; Lk 8:43-48) in North Atlantic and African Contexts, Bible and Theology in Africa 5.  New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
 
Horsley, Richard A.  Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
Obeng, Emmanuel A.  "The Significance of Blood in the New Testament in Relation to Blood in African Religion."  Journal of Arabic and Religious Studies 3 (1986) 36-42.
 
Pilch, John J.  Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
 
Rose, Deborah Bird.  "Rupture and the Ethics of Care in Colonized Space."  In Prehistory to Politics: John Mulvaney, the Humanities and the Public Intellectual (ed. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996) 190-215.
 
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob and Sharon Ringe, eds.  Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Semeia 78.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
 
Sugirtharajah, R. S.  Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995.
 
West, Gerald O.  Constructing Critical and Contextual Readings with Ordinary Readers: Mark 5:21–6:1."  Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 92 (September 1995) 60-69.

The Syro-Phoenician Woman in Postcolonial Perspective
 
Aleixandre, Dolores and Paul Burns.  "Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman: A Tale from the Margins (Mark 7:24-30)."  In Frontier Violations: The Beginnings of New Identities (ed. Felix Wilfred and Jose Oscar Beozzo; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1999) 73-9.
 
Avalos, Hector.  Health Care and the Rise of Christianity.   Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1999.
 
Burkill, T. Alec.  "Historical Development of the Story of the Syrophoenician Woman, Mark 7:24-31."  Novum Testamentum 9 (1967) 161-177.
 
D'Angelo, Mary Rose.  "(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke-Acts."  In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 171-95.
 
--------.  "(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospels: John and Mark."  In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 129-49.
 
Donaldson, Laura.  Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire-Building.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
 
--------, ed.  Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading, Semeia 75.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
 
Dormandy, Richard.  "The Expulsion of Legion: A Political Reading of Mark 5:1-20."  Expository Times 111 (2000) 335-7.
 
Dube, Musa W.  Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible.  St. Louis: Chalice, 2000.
 
Fanon, Frantz.  Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann.  New York: Grove, 1991; French original, 1967.
 
--------.  The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Constance Farrington.  London: Penguin, 1965; French original, Paris: F. Maspero, 1961.
 
Gnanadason, Aruna.  "Jesus and the Asian Woman: A Post-colonial Look at the Syro-Phoenician Woman/Canaanite Woman from an Indian Perspective."  Studies in World Christianity 7 (2001) 162-77.
 
Horsley, Richard A.  Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
Levine, Amy-Jill.  "'Go Nowhere among the Gentiles': (Matt. 10:5b)."  In The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Matthean Salvation History, vol. 1 (New York: E. Mellen, 1988).
 
Lorde, Audre.  "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House."  In The Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colour (ed. C. Morraga and G. Anzalda; Waterdown, Massachusetts: Persephone, 1981); reprinted in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Freedom, California: Crossing Press, 1984).
 
Myers, Ched.  Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1988.
 
Monro, Anita.  "Alterity and the Canaanite Woman: A Postmodern Feminist Theological Reflection on Political Action."  Colloquium 26 (May 1994) 32-43.
 
Perkinson, J.  "A Canaanitic Word in the Logos of Christ; or The Difference the Syro-Phoenician Woman Makes to Jesus."  Semeia 75 (1996).
 
Pilch, John J.  Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
 
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob and Sharon Ringe, eds.  Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Semeia 78.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
 
Sugirtharajah, R. S.  Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995.

Postcolonial Perspectives on the Woman Who Anoints Jesus
 
D'Angelo, Mary Rose.  "(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke-Acts."  In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 171-95.
 
--------.  "(Re)Presentations of Women in the Gospels: John and Mark."  In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 129-49.
 
Donaldson, Laura.  Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire-Building.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
 
--------, ed.  Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading, Semeia 75.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
 
Dube, Musa W.  Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible.  St. Louis: Chalice, 2000.
 
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob and Sharon Ringe, eds.  Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Semeia 78.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
 
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth.  In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins.  New York: Crossroad, 1983.
 
Sugirtharajah, R. S.  Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995.

Liberation Theology and Postcolonial Theory
 
Camps, Arnulf and John Bowden.  "The Bible and the Discovery of the World: Missions, Colonization and Foreign Development." In The Bible as Cultural Heritage (ed. Wim Beuken and Sean Freyne; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995) 61-70.
 
Gebara, Ivone.  "A Feminist Theology of Liberation: A Latin American Perspective with a View toward the Future."  In Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed. Fernando F. Segovia; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2003) 249-68.
 
Gutièrrez, Gustavo.  A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation, trans. Caridad Inda and John Eagleson.   Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1988; original 1973.
 
--------.  "The Theology of Liberation: Perspectives and Tasks."  In Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed. Fernando F. Segovia; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2003) 287-99.
 
Horsley, Richard A.  "Subverting Disciplines: The Possibilities and Limitations of Postcolonial Theory for New Testament Studies."  In Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed. Fernando F. Segovia; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2003) 90-105.
 
Ruiz, Jean-Pierre.  "New Ways of Reading the Bible in the Cultural Settings of the New World."  In The Bible as Cultural Heritage (ed. Wim Beuken and Sean Freyne; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995) 73-84.
 
Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob and Sharon Ringe, eds.  Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Semeia 78.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
 
Soares-Prabhu, M.  "The Bible as Magna Carta of Movements for Liberation and Human Rights."  In The Bible as Cultural Heritage (ed. Wim Beuken and Sean Freyne; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995) 85-96.
 
Segovia, Fernando F.  "Liberation Hermeneutics: Revisiting the Foundations in Latin America."  In Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed. Fernando F. Segovia; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2003) 106-132.
 
Sugirtharajah, R. S.  "Convergent Trajectories? Liberation Hermeneutics and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism."  In Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) 103-123.
 
Tamez, Elsa.  "1 Timothy: What a Problem!"  In Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed. Fernando F. Segovia; Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2003) 141-56.
 
 
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