Tribals, Empire and God: A Tribal Reading of the Birth of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel
Ebook
Tribal biblical interpretation is a developing area of study that is concerned with reading the Bible through the eyes of tribal people. While many studies of reading the Bible from the reader's social, cultural and historical location have been made in various parts of the world, no thorough study that offers a coherent and substantive methodology for tribal biblical interpretation has been made.
This book is the first comprehensive work that offers a description of tribal biblical interpretation and shows its application by making a lucid reading of Matthew's infancy narrative from a tribal reader's perspective. Using reader-response criticism as his primary method, Zhodi Angami brings his tribal context of North East India into conversation with Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus. Since tribal people of North East India see themselves as living under colonial rule, a tribal reader sees Matthew's text as a narrative that actively resists and subverts imperial rule. Likewise, the tribal experience of living at the margins inspires a tribal reader to look at the narrative from the underside, from the perspective of those who are sidelined, ignored, belittled or forgotten. Tribal biblical interpretation presented here follows a process of conversation between tribal worldview and Matthew's narrative. Such a method animates the text for the tribal reader and makes the biblical narrative not only more intelligible to the tribal reader but allows the text to speak directly to the tribal context.
The first book to present a tribal reading of the gospel of Matthew and show the implications of this.
Fully complementing contemporary Matthew research, this is the first study to offer a tribal reading of Matthew's gospel
Illuminates the tribal context of the text and opens the text to a wider readership
Engages with the text at reader-response level by shedding light on ancient reception
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Description of the Project
2. Reader-Response Criticism
3. The Origin of Jesus the Messiah
4. The Birth of Jesus the Messiah
5. The Visit of the Magi
6. The Refugee Messiah
7. God at Work
Bibliography
Index
- Title: Tribals, Empire and God: A Tribal Reading of the Birth of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel
- Author: Zhodi Angami
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567671332, 9780567684851, 0567684857, 056767133X
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567671332
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T03:51:27Z
Zhodi Angami is Associate Professor of New Testament at Eastern Theological College, Assam, India.