................................................................................................................................... i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................ iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................ iv A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................... vii LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................... ix INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 1 INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING JESUS’ (IM)POLITENESS ......................... 4 1. (Im)politeness from different viewpoints: Contributions ................................................. 4 1.1. (Im)politeness from a biblical and historical viewpoint .................................................. 4 1.1.1. Luke Timothy Johnson ............................................................................................. 4 1.1.2. Benjamin Thomas and Johan Coetzee ...................................................................... 6 1.1.3. Edward Bridge ........................................................................................................ 11 1.1.4. Ludwig Köhler and Konrad Ehlich ......................................................................... 15 1.1.5. Marina Terkourafi ................................................................................................... 18 1.1.6. Andrew Wilson ....................................................................................................... 20 1.2. (Im)politeness in specific Matthean texts ...................................................................... 22 1.2.1. (Im)politeness and the Canaanite woman ............................................................... 23 1.2.2. (Im)politeness in Matt 23 ........................................................................................ 26 1.2.3. (Im)politeness and verbal violence ......................................................................... 31 2. Filling in the gap: Purpose ................................................................................................. 32 CHAPTER 2 METHODOLOGY, PRESUPPOSITIONS AND DEFINITIONS ......................................... 33 1. Methodology and presuppositions ..................................................................................... 33 1.1. Presuppositions: Locating myself .................................................................................. 34 1.2. Methodology .................................................................................................................. 36 1.2.1. Inner texture: The text and the reader ..................................................................... 37 1.2.2. Intertexture: Ancient texts and the reader ............................................................... 39 1.2.3. Social and cultural texture: A reading model ......................................................... 41 2. (Im)politeness from a theoretical viewpoint ..................................................................... 44 2.1. First-order politeness ..................................................................................................... 44 2.2. Second-order politeness ................................................................................................. 47 3. The term (im)politeness in this research ........................................................................... 56 4. Summary .............................................................................................................................. 57

The (Im)Polite Jesus: An Analysis of Jesus' Verbal Rudeness in Matthew's Gospel

Doctor of Philosophy in Gender and Religion University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 2014

In search of indigenous knowledge systems for ecological justice : a gendered ecological reading of Genesis 1-3 in the context of the Tonga people in Zambia.

Policing African traditional religion and culture in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe.

This paper presents a postcolonial critique of state sovereignty as it is understood in ir. It is argued that the colonial relation between Orient and Occident has informed the development and prac...

A Postcolonial Critique of State Sovereignty in ir: the contradictory legacy of a ‘West-centric’ discipline

................................................................................................................................... v LIST OF ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................ vii LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................... viii LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................................................... ix TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................... xi CHAPTER ONE ............................................................................................................................. 1 CONSTRUCTING THE STUDY................................................................................................... 1 1.

A comparative analysis of reunification discourses in selected Cameroonian history textbooks.

The purpose of this article is to outline certain options and struggles, which gave rise to postcolonial theory The author deals with various experiences of anti-slavery and anti-colonial movements in Western and tricontinental countries, comprising the development of postcolonial theory It is argued that postcolonial theory provides a means of defiance by which any exploitative and discriminative practices, regardless of time and space, can be challenged The article consists of a section in which terminology is clarified, secondly a discussion of the elements that functioned as justification of the formation of postcolonial theory, namely a humanitarian, economic, political, and religious justification The role of feminism and anti-colonialism is discussed in the third instance, followed by a reflection on the concept “hybrid identities”

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The formation of postcolonial theory

In this article, postcolonial theory is presented as a tool for Biblical interpretation, in an attempt to find colonial intentions (be they political, cultural or economic) that informed and influenced the writer’s context. Although criticism has been levelled at the church and other religious institutions for having, consciously or unconsciously, facilitated colonial conquests and imperial establishment all over the world, postcolonial theory calls them to a constructive reading that enables readers to see the concerns of the universal mission of justice. Postcolonial theory, as a tool for Biblical interpretation, deals with the Bible as a “cultural product” in time and space. However, as part of socio-scientific method, postcolonial theory encounters some crucial translation problems such as ethnocentrism and anachronism. Nevertheless, whatever hermeneutical tool the reader uses, it must yield two important things from Scripture reading: discovering life and discovering faith.

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Postcolonial theory as a hermeneutical tool for Biblical reading

Reading the Gospel of Matthew from the perspective of postcolonial theory means taking the context of the Gospel seriously. The political and religious circumstances of Palestine under Roman colonization influenced Matthean redaction. From a this perspective, it can be argued that Matthew presents Jesus as a revolutionary leader whose divine mission was to challenge and overthrow the Roman empire and its local collaborators on behalf of the poor, the powerless, the afflicted, the hungry and the outcasts. His mission was to replace existing power structures with the universal, just and powerful kingdom of heaven on earth. The article argues that the story of the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:2128) falls into this reality. She negotiates justice and righteousness on behalf of her demon-possessed daughter. Seen from the perspective of Jesus’ Beatitudes in Matthew (5:3-6), her encounter with Jesus helps him discover the wider scope of his healing mission, beyond geopolitical and cultural boundaries.

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Lazare S. Rukundwa

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The formation of postcolonial theory

Postcolonial theory as a hermeneutical tool for Biblical reading

Revisiting justice in the first four Beatitudes in Matthew (5:3-6) and the story of the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:21-28) : a postcolonial reading