THE RHETORIC OFWISDOM AND POSTCOLONIAL HERMENEUTICS

  • Leo G. Perdue Guest Professor: Stellenbosch University Texas Christian University

Abstract

Critical wisdom literature in ancient Judah offers a paradigm for understanding the rejection of the teachings of the justice of God and retribution. This negation of foundational sapiential teachings provides the basis for a moral paradigm of postcolonial hermeneutics in which there is a movement towards the establishment of social justice for the poor and marginalized in native cultures
Published
2013-06-12
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