Contextual Biblical Hermeneutics as Multicentric Dialogue: Towards a Singaporean Reading of Daniel

By Chin Ming Stephen Lim

In this book, Stephen Lim offers a contextual way of reading biblical texts that reconceptualises context as an epistemic space caught between the modern/colonial world system and local networks of knowledge production. In this light, he proposes a multicentric dialogical approach that takes into account the privilege of specialist readers in relation to nonspecialist readers. At the same time, he rethinks what dialogue with the Other means in a particular context, which then decides the conversation partners brought in from the margins. This is applied to his context in Singapore through a reading of Daniel where perspectives from western biblical scholarship, Asian traditions and Singaporean cultural products are brought together to dialogue on issues of transformative praxis and identity formation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004395075
• ISBN13: 9789004395077
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"