November 29, 2007 by davidpham
It is interesting to know that the way of biblical translation can affect the change of the social status of a specific group of people in India. For example, the lower caste group, such as the Nadars, finds out that the missionary project to revise Tamil Bible “enables them to ascend [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Week 10- Cutchery Tamil Versus Pure Tamil: Contesting Language Use in the Translated Bible in the Early Nineteenth-Century Protestant Tamil Community- Israel
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Week 10-Canonization and Marginalization: Mary of Magdala- King
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November 29, 2007 by davidpham
It seems to me that Karen L. King relies too much on extra-biblical materials, such as the Gospel of Mary, to back up her point of view against what we understand about Mary of Magdala from reading the Bible. If someone keeps using extra-biblical texts to do the same thing on [...]
Week 10- Exodus-Toward-Egypt: Filipino-Americans’ Struggle to Realize the Promised Land in America- Fernadez
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November 29, 2007 by davidpham
This article from Fernandez fits my situation well as a refugees living in the United States. I share the Filipino Americans’ struggle pursuing their American dream in this country. Fernandez mentions that the Filipino Americans suffer because of their color. Color of the skin is one of the aspects [...]
Week 10- Wednesday Reflection
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November 28, 2007 by davidpham
Wow! Time really flies. Today is the last day in class. Wess helps us how to put our three-part paper together to make things flow properly from one part to the others. Professor Bolger helps review what we learn from week one to week 10 in order to have [...]
Week 10- Monday Reflection
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November 26, 2007 by davidpham
Wess did a good job of lecturing this afternoon in spite of the technical difficulty. I love the idea of incarnation as a starting point entailing incarnation as God’s missional activity to the world and Jesus the missionary. I try to apply this model next summer on a trip back to [...]
Week 9- Race Against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History- Gibbons
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November 26, 2007 by davidpham
Even the British colonizers and the Irish colonied look the same but for the purpose of oppression, the colonizers have to find something else to justify themselves by their own rules, and their own standards to dominate their Irish colonied. The comparison of the native Irish to American Indians was what [...]
Week 9- Inventing Ireland- Kiberd
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November 26, 2007 by davidpham
Realizing the importance in the role of language in colonization and decolonization, Douglas Hype tried to bring back his Irish original language, Gaelic tongue, to the areas of literature, poetry, and many other areas in the Irish people’s daily lives, in order “to restore self-respect to Irish people, based on a [...]
Week 9- Response to Alex Lazo’s Blog on Nov. 20, 2007 regarding “Reading a Woman’s Death…”
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November 25, 2007 by davidpham
I agree with Alex Lazo that we should repect other’s view point and we also expect others to respect ours as well. But in Michael Cleary’s case of believing in the legends of fairies and ending up to burn his wife, Bridget Cleary, to death. Instead of being punished for his [...]
Week 9- Reading a Woman’s Death: Colonial Text and Oral Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland- Bourke
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November 24, 2007 by davidpham
Murder is a crime. I don’t understand why people could make this terrible thing a fairy tale, a so-called the idiom of oral legend and described in detail how Michael Cleary killed his wife Bridget Cleary instead of condemning him for his criminal act (p433). Tragically, this murder account was “favored [...]
Week 9- God at the Crossroads: A Postcolonial Reading of Sophia- Mayra Rivera
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November 24, 2007 by davidpham
I wish to have an opportunity to have someone to explain to me what Mayra Rivera’s article is all about. It is too confusing for me. I try to read it to find out who Sophia really is, but I cannot figure it out. The more I read it the more [...]
