Sea of Readings: The Bible in the South Pacific
About this ebook
This book offers readings of the Bible by native biblical critics from the South Pacific (Pasifika). An essay from editor Jione Havea introduces the volume by locating these essays within islander criticism and by explaining the flow of the book. Essays are presented in three sections. “Island Twists” offers readings that twist, like a whirlpool, biblical texts around insights of Pasifika novelists, composers, poets, and sages. “Island Turns” contains contextual readings that turn biblical texts toward Pasifika. “Across the Sea” contains responses by biblical critics from across the sea.
Features
- Contributions to islander criticism
- A showcase of texts by native writers, poets, and composers
- Crosscultural and postcolonial readings
About the author
Jione Havea is a native Methodist pastor from Tonga, a research fellow in religious studies at Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa / New Zealand), an honorary research fellow with the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre, Charles Sturt University (Australia), and with the University of Divinity (Australia). He is the author of Elusions of Control: Biblical Law on the Words of Women (Society of Biblical Literature) and coeditor of Reading Ruth in Asia (SBL Press).
