The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation

Introduction 1 The guarded personal voice of a male European-American biblical scholar 2 My personal voice: The making of a postcolonial critic 3 The function of the non-fulfilled promises: Reading the Pentateuch from the perspective of the Latin-American oppressed people 4 Mark’s open ending and following Jesus on the way: An autobiographical interpretation of the Gospel of Mark 5 Fathers and sons: Fragments from an autobiographical midrash on John’s Gospel 6 Reading and sense-experiencing the Gospel of John 7 An adventure with Nicodemus 8 Border crossing and meeting Jesus at the well: An autobiographical re-reading of the Samaritan woman’s story in John 4:1–44 9 Reading the Letter to the Galatians from an apartheid and a post-apartheid perspective 10 My reading of 1 John in Africa 11 A self-conscious reader-response interpretation of Romans 13:1–7 12 A re-evaluation of Hosea 1–2: Philology informed by life experience 13 Revolting Revelation