Harrowing the Gospels: A Cambodian (American) Rereading of Agriculture in Mark and Matthew - (Biblical Interpretation) (Hardcover)

About the Book

Harrowing the Gospels: A Cambodian (American) Rereading of Agriculture in Mark and Matthew interrogates constructions of ethnography, economy, and ethnicity in previous Gospel research. Employing tools from postcolonial and social-scientific analysis, it develops a methodology for re-reading in a culturally-informed manner.

Book Synopsis

Despite the growth in archaeology in the Galilee and sustained interest in the economic background of the Jesus movement, agriculture and agrarian life remain under-theorized in the study of the Gospels. Harrowing the Gospels: A Cambodian (American) Rereading of Agriculture in Mark and Matthew interrogates constructions of ethnography, economy, and ethnicity in previous Gospel research to both situate itself in and critique the gaps in the attention to these subjects. By reading from a Cambodian (American) perspective and through the tools of postcolonial and social-scientific analysis, this volume constructs a new working methodology fit to the problems of reading agriculture: "Postagrarian Analysis."

About the Author

Kristofer Dale Phan Coffman, Ph.D. (2022), University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. He is the first Cambodian to receive a Ph.D. in biblical studies and has published book chapters, articles and translations on subjects ranging from biblical interpretation to New Nordic cuisine.