Publisher's Synopsis
The volume will look at the new Testament texts, investigating how they relate to the colonial context out ofwhich they emerge; how they advocate and foster colonial practices; how theytransgress colonial notions of the time; how these texts in turn wereemployed to sustain and legitimise modern colonialism; how translationpractice reinforced colonial expansion and domination, and how these textsmight be re-read in relation to postcolonial concerns such as diaspora,nationality, etc.
