The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The guarded personal voice of a male European-American biblical scholar	12
2	My personal voice: The making of a postcolonial critic	25
3	The function of the non-fulfilled promises: Reading the Pentateuch from the perspective of the Latin-American oppressed people	38
4	Mark's open ending and following Jesus on the way: An autobiographical interpretation of the Gospel of Mark	53
5	Fathers and sons: Fragments from an autobiographical midrash on John's Gospel	65
6	Reading and sense-experiencing the Gospel of John	86
7	An adventure with Nicodemus	97
8	Border crossing and meeting Jesus at the well: An autobiographical re-reading of the Samaritan woman's story in John 4:1-44	111
9	Reading the Letter to the Galatians from an apartheid and a post-apartheid perspective	128
10	My reading of 1 John in Africa	142
11	A self-conscious reader-response interpretation of Romans 13:1-7	156
12	A re-evaluation of Hosea 1-2: Philology informed by life experience	170
13	Revolting Revelations	183
	Name index	201
	Subject index	205
	Biblical index	213