The Bible's influence on the West has received much more attention than its complex career in the East. R. S. Sugirtharajah's expansive study of Asia's idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible tells of missionaries, imperialists, and reformers who molded Biblical texts in order to influence religion, politics, and daily life from India to China.

Autorentext
R. S. Sugirtharajah is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham.

Inhalt
Contents Introduction 1. Merchandise, Moralities, and Poetics of Aryans, Dravidians, and Israelites 2. Colonial Bureaucrats and the Search for Older Testaments 3. Enlisting Christian Texts for Protest in the Empire 4. A Buddhist Ascetic and His Maverick Misreadings of the Bible 5. Paul the Roman in Asia 6. Exegesis in Eastern Climes 7. Between the Lines of Asian Fiction Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index of Scriptural References General Index