Contextual Biblical Hermeneutics as Multicentric Dialogue

Towards a Singaporean Reading of Daniel

• Author(s): Chin Ming Stephen Lim,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 228
• ISBN_10: 9004399259
  ISBN_13: 9789004399259
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament , Religion / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics , Bibles / General , Religion / Biblical Studies / General ,

Description:... 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.