Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Textually conjoined twins: Rammohun Roy and Thomas Jefferson and their Bibles
- 2 Salvos from the Victorian pulpit: conscription of texts by Victorian preachers during the Indian rebellion of 1857
- 3 Thorns in the crown: the subversive and complicit hermeneutics of John Colenso of Natal and James Long of Bengal
- 4 Texts and Testament: the Hebrew scriptures in colonial context
- 5 Imperial fictions and biblical narratives: entertainment and exegesis in colonial novels
- Afterword
- Select bibliography
- Index of biblical references
- Index of names and subjects
- References
Select bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Textually conjoined twins: Rammohun Roy and Thomas Jefferson and their Bibles
- 2 Salvos from the Victorian pulpit: conscription of texts by Victorian preachers during the Indian rebellion of 1857
- 3 Thorns in the crown: the subversive and complicit hermeneutics of John Colenso of Natal and James Long of Bengal
- 4 Texts and Testament: the Hebrew scriptures in colonial context
- 5 Imperial fictions and biblical narratives: entertainment and exegesis in colonial novels
- Afterword
- Select bibliography
- Index of biblical references
- Index of names and subjects
- References
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