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| Introduction | |
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| Postcolonial Construals | |
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| Charting the Aftermath: A Review of Postcolonial Criticism | |
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| The arrival of postcolonial criticism | |
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| Creative literature | |
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| The contours of postcolonial criticism | |
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| Clarification of the lexicon | |
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| Postcolonialism and biblical studies | |
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| Empire and theological reflections | |
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| Postcolonial criticism and cognate disciplines--feminism | |
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| Global intentions and postcolonial concerns | |
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| Is the United States postcolonial? | |
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| Concerns, temptations, conclusions | |
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| Redress, Regeneration, Redemption: A Survey of Biblical Interpretation | |
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| Dissident readings | |
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| Resistant readings | |
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| Heritagist readings | |
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| Nationalistic readings | |
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| Liberationist readings | |
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| Dissentient readings | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Coding and Decoding: Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation | |
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| Orientalist tendencies | |
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| Decoding texts | |
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| Jesus and the colonial context | |
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| Colonial trauma and madness: The case of the Gerasene Demoniac | |
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| Transcending the text, visualizing the reality | |
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| Propagandist literature or confessional writings | |
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| Convergent Trajectories? Liberation Hermeneutics and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism | |
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| Marks of classic liberation hermeneutics | |
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| Gutierrez's Job | |
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| Tamez's Paul | |
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| Liberation hermeneutics and its entanglements | |
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| Religion and liberation | |
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| Postcolonialism and liberation hermeneutics as companions in struggle | |
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| Postcolonial Preoccupations | |
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| The Version on Which the Sun Never Sets: The English Bible and Its Authorizing Tendencies | |
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| The context of the English Bible | |
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| The rise of the English Bible | |
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| The Englishness of the Bible | |
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| Simple people and the simplicity of the Scripture: The Geneva Bible | |
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| A text for the empire: A post-imperial footnote | |
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| Colonial parallels | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Blotting the Master's Copy: Locating Bible Translations | |
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| Confusing and confused tongues | |
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| Dismissing and embracing | |
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| Translations and their preoccupations | |
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| A postcolonial gaze at the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | |
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| Some notes on postcolonial biblical translation | |
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| Hermeneutics in Transit: Diaspora and Interpretation | |
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| Defining diaspora | |
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| Postcolonialism and diaspora | |
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| Uprootings of text and persons: Diaspora and biblical interpretation | |
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| Diasporic hermeneutics: Some markers | |
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| Some concluding remarks | |
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| Afterword | |
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| References | |
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| Index of biblical references | |
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| Index of names and subjects | |