The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial EncountersThis volume is the first attempt at a comprehensive history of how the Bible has fared in the Third World, from precolonial days to the postcolonial period. It closely examines the works of biblical interpreters from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America, bringing to the fore the obscure as well as the better known interpretations, and investigating the Bible's reclamation by indigenous peoples in the postcolonial world. The volume