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| Contributors | |
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| Foreword | |
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| What Is Postcolonial Studies? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Paul after Empire | |
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| The Beginnings of Postcolonial Studies | |
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| The Beginnings of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism | |
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| Interrogating the "Postcolonial" in Postcolonial Biblical Criticism | |
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| Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial Theory | |
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| The Feminist Frame | |
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| The Pedagogical Frame | |
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| Marxism and the Postcolonial Study of Paul | |
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| Elements of Marxist Interpretation | |
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| Marxist Interpretation of Early Christianity | |
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| Marxism and Postcolonial Criticism | |
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| Marxist Challenges for the Postcolonial Interpretation of Paul | |
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| A Future for Marxist Criticism? A Christian-Marxist Coda | |
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| Paul and Ancient Forms of Colonialism | |
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| Paul and Roman Colonial Rule | |
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| Pauline Agency in Postcolonial Perspective Subverter of or Agent for Empire? | |
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| Introduction: The Problematic Paul | |
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| Paul and Empire: Accounting for an Ambivalent Situation | |
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| A Postcolonial Optic on Paul and Empire: Power and Agency | |
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| Paul, Power, and Agency: The Corinthian Community | |
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| Challenging Empire? Weakness and Foolishness as Subversion | |
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| Paul, Agent for Empire? Asserting Power and Strength | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Politics of Paul His Supposed Social Conservatism and the Impact of Postcolonial Readings | |
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| The Underlying Millenarian Script | |
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| The Use of Politically Loaded Terms | |
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| Pauls Experience at the Hands of Roman and Civic Authorities | |
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| Romans 13 and the Monumental Contradiction | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Visualizing Significant Otherness Reimagining Paul(ine Studies) through Hybrid Lenses | |
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| A State of Postcolonial Affairs | |
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| Whither Postcolonial Paul(ine Studies)? | |
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| Hybridity as a Complex, Contestable Signifier in Postcolonial Paul(ine Studies) | |
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| Resourcing Visual Representation for Potentially Hybrid Postcolonial Reimaginations of Paul(ine Studies) | |
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| Trajan's Column: Visualizing Romans and Paul as Unstable, Hybrid Figures | |
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| Visualizing Hybridity and Honesty: Reimagining Relationships, Then and Now | |
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| Paul, Colonialism, And Ethnicity | |
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| Reading Romans 7 in Conversation with Postcolonial Theory Paul's Struggle toward a Christian Identity of Hybridity | |
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| Identity in Postcolonial Theory | |
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| Hybridity | |
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| Analogical Relationships between Romans 7 and Postcolonial Theory | |
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| The Identity of the Speaker in Romans 7 | |
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| Conclusion: The Hybrid Identity Described in Romans 7 | |
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| Paul the Ethnic Hybrid? Postcolonial Perspectives on Paul's Ethnic Categorizations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Setting the Stage | |
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| The "Hybridity" Debates | |
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| Paul and Postcolonial Studies | |
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| Paul's Ethnic Worldview | |
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| Postcolonial Musings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Redressing Bodies at Corinth Racial/Ethnic Politics and Religious Difference in the Context of Empire | |
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| Embodying Corinthian Rhetoric and Politics | |
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| Paul's Rejected Body | |
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| Body Building over Jesus' Dead (Jewish) Body | |
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| (Other) Bodies Feminized and Sexualized | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Paul, Colonialism, And Gender | |
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| Imperial Intersections and Initial Inquiries Toward a Feminist, Postcolonial Analysis of Philippians | |
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| Prompting Need: Gaps, Erasures, and Conflicts | |
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| Procedure and Precedent | |
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| Interpreting Philippians: A Postcolonial Paul? | |
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| Connections and Conclusions | |
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| Beyond the Heroic Paul Toward a Feminist and Decolonizing Approach to the Letters of Paul | |
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| The Heroic Political Paul | |
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| Disrupting the Heroic Traveling Missionary: 1 Thessalonians and Acts as Test Cases | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| To What End? Revisiting the Gendered Space of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 from a Feminist Postcolonial Perspective | |
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| Mapping the Method | |
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| To What End? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Paul and Modern Western Colonialism | |
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| Wrestling with the "Macedonian Call" Paul, Pauline Scholarship, and Nineteenth-Century Colonial Missions | |
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| Introduction: Another Look at Hybridity and the Pauline Writings | |
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| The Bible and Nineteenth-Century Missions | |
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| Historicity and Paul: Two Competing Views | |
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| Paul and Arguments for (Colonial) Enslavement | |
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| Conclusion: Hybridity in the Reading of Paul | |
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| Galatians and the "Orientalism" of Justification, by Faith Paul among Jews and Muslims | |
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| Edward Said: Decolonizing Orientals and Occidentals, Muslims and Jews | |
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| Galatians Colonizing Phrygians, Turks, Jews, and Muslims | |
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| The Dying Galatian and the Justification of the Occidental Self: Critical Reimagination I | |
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| Christ Crucified and the Justification of the Other: Critical Reimagination II | |
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| Galatian Foreskin as Sign of Noncompliance and Nonconformity Critical Reimagination III | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Paul, Nation, and Nationalism A Korean Postcolonial Perspective | |
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| Paul and Nation | |
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| Postcolonialism and National Relationships | |
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| Empire Criticism | |
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| Paul and Nationalism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Constructions of Paul in Filipino Theology of Struggle | |
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| The Vision of a New World Coming (Emerito Nacpil, Julio Labayen, and Carlos Abesamis) | |
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| Kenosis and the Unmasking of and Victory over the Powers (Levi Oracion) | |
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| Dismantling Oppressive Structures, Freedom from Bondage, and Transcendence as a Critique of All Human Projects (Benito Dominguez) | |
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| Tortured Conscience, Justification by Faith, and the Dialectical Separation of Gospel and Law (Everett Mendoza) | |
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| Paul as a Model of Contextual Theologizing, Conversion as Illumination (Jos� de Mesa and Lode L. Wostyn, C.I.C.M.) | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Indexes | |