This book seeks to explore dalit liberative hermeneutics in India, based on the life and predicament of Prophet Jeremiah. Providing a brief socio-historical background of the prophet, it presents a commentary on the book of Jeremiah highlighting the issues and concerns of the prophet based on the words of the biblical text.
The commentary is followed by an appropriation of each passage or section to the dalit liberative hermeneutics for which examples are drawn from the current situation existing in India today. It mainly focuses on the dialogue between the biblical text and dalit situation. It also analyses the relevance of Jeremianic text to the struggle of dalits, in general, and dalit Christians, in particular.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kondasingu Jesurathnam
Rev. Dr. Kondasingu Jesurathnam is Professor of Old Testament at the United Theological College, Bangalore, South India. Also, he is an ordained minister of Telugu Baptist Church. During the year 2014 (Jan-Dec), he spent his year-long sabbatical in the United States. During this period, he taught at the two seminaries: Columbia Theological Seminary at Georgia and Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, as visiting Professor. His special areas of interests include Old Testament Theology, Psalms and Prophetic books. His scholarly venture also includes his magnum opus, published recently, `Exploring Dalit Liberative Hermeneutics in India and the World', integrating the methodology of Dalit Hermeneutics with the Old Testament texts.
His wife Beatrice Veena teaches in the United Theological College Nursery School and his son David Sunil Wesley Raju is a postgraduate student in Bangalore in the area of English Literature.
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