Who Is to Blame for Judges 19?
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Who Is to Blame for Judges 19?

Interplay between the Text and a Chinese Context

  1. 234 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Who Is to Blame for Judges 19?

Interplay between the Text and a Chinese Context

About this book

The horrific text of Judges 19 is puzzling, especially to Chinese Christians who read the Chinese Union Version. This dominant translation of the Bible seems to place the blame for the tragedy on the concubine, which in turns legitimizes violence against women. Using tools of narrative, intertextual, and ideological criticism, Tsoi reveals an anti-Levite rhetoric in the text that has been neglected by translators. An examination of the translation context suggests that an anti-concubinage agenda in the social context of Republican China might have contributed to the bias in the translation, resulting in more than a century of misinterpretation among Chinese Christians.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Chapter 1: Reading Judges 19 in a World with Concubines
  7. Chapter 2: Reading the Pîlegeš (Concubine) in Judges 19 in the Historical Context
  8. Chapter 3: Reading Judges 19 as a Narrative
  9. Chapter 4: Reading Judges 19 Intertextually
  10. Chapter 5: Reading Judges 19 with Ideological Lenses
  11. Chapter 6: Chinese Christian Reading of Judges 19
  12. Chapter 7: Concluding Reflections
  13. Bibliography