The following books can be acquired at Akademica bookstore:
Sugirtharajah, R.J. (2002), Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation, (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Dube, Musa W (2000), Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, (St. Louis, Missouri: Chalice Press)
Stephen D. Moore (2006), Empire and Apocalypse: Postcolonialism and the New Testament, (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press)
Petterson, Christina (forthcoming), ‘Configuring the language to convert the people. Translating the Bible in Greenland’ in (S. Elliott and R. Boer, eds.), Ideology, Culture, and Translation, (Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature)
The following texts can be found in the course compendium:
Dube, Musa W (1999), ‘Consuming a Colonial Cultural Bomb: Translating Badimo into “Demons” in the Setswana Bible (Matt. 28-34; 15:22, 10:8)’, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 73 pp. 35-59. (Available on-campus through "X-port": http://x-port.uio.no/V/?func=quick-1&new_lng=nor )
Johnston, Anna, “The Book Eaters: Textuality, Modernity and the London Missionary Society” in Semeia 88, A Vanishing Mediator? The Presence/Absence of the Bible in Postcolonialism, pp. 13-40 (Compendium)
Boer, Roland (2008), Last Stop before Antarctica. The Bible and Postcolonialism in Australia (2nd edition, Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature), pp. 135-159 (Compendium)
Richard Horsley (2004), ‘The Origins of the Hebrew Scriptures in Imperial Relations’ in (J. A. Draper, ed.) Orality, Literacy and Colonialism in Antiquity (Semeia Studies, 47; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature), pp. 107-134.(Compendium)
Werner Kelber (2004), ‘Roman Imperialism and Early Christian Scribality’ in (J. A. Draper, ed.) Orality, Literacy and Colonialism in Antiquity (Semeia Studies, 47; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature), pp. 135-153 (Compendium)
Claudia V. Camp (2004), ‘Oralities, Literacies, and Colonialisms in Antiquity and Contemporary Scholarship’ in (J. A. Draper, ed.) Orality, Literacy and Colonialism in Antiquity (Semeia Studies, 47; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature), pp. 193-217. (Compendium)
Horsley, Richard A. (2004), “Introduction. Jesus, Paul, and the “Arts of Resistance”: Leaves from the Notebook of James C. Scott” in (R. Horsley, ed.), Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance:Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul (Semeia Studies, 48;Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature), pp 1-26. (Compendium)
West, Gerald (2004), Explicating Domination and Resistance: A Dialogue between James C. Scott and Biblical Scholars, in (R. Horsley, ed.), Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance:Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul (Semeia Studies, 48;Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature), pp. 173-194 (Compendium)
Brett, Mark G. Decolonising God. The Bible in the Tides of Empire (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press), pp. 7-31: The Bible and Colonisation (Compendium)
Sugirtharajah, R. J. (1998), “A Postcolonial Exploration of Collusion and Construction in Biblical Interpretation” in (Sugirtharajah, ed.) The Postcolonial Bible (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press), pp. 91-116. (Compendium)
Brett, Mark G. Decolonising God. The Bible in the Tides of Empire (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press), pp. 132-152. (Compendium)
Brett, Mark G. Decolonising God. The Bible in the Tides of Empire (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press), pp. 153-177 (Compendium)
Marchal, Joseph A. The Politics of Heaven. Women, Gender and Empire in the Study of Paul (Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2008), pp. 37-57 (Compendium)
McKinlay, Judith E. Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus, (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2004), pp. 137-160 (Compendium)
Burrus, Virginia (2007), “The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles” in (F. Segovia and Sugirtharajah, eds), A Postcolonial commentary on the New Testament Writings, (London: T&T Clark), pp. 133-155. (Compendium)
Petterson, Christina (2008), ‘Mission of Christ and local communities in Acts’ in (B. Holmberg and M. Winninge, eds.), Identity formation in the New Testament, (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), pp. 247-267. (Compendium)