Reading Philemon with Onesimus in the postcolony: exploring a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesis

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dc.contributor.authorTiroyabone, Obusitswe
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-12T11:20:02Z
dc.date.available2017-01-12T11:20:02Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractFor centuries, the Philemon narrative has been read as the story of a slave that ran away from his master and must now be reconciled to him, and continue their master-slave relationship. Reading the narrative through a postcolonial lens yields another form of interpretation: reading the text with the signified and not the signifiers, reading with the oppressed and not the oppressor, and reading with the marginalised and not the centre. This article argues that the letter of Philemon and indeed the narrative of slavery must be decolonised. Using the Philemon narrative, this article proposes a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesis that shifts from John Chrysostom’s interpretation and those of many others after him significantly. The article argues that Onesimus was an intelligent person albeit a slave who sought to liberate himself using the very same system that oppressed him.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationTiroyabone, O. (2016). Reading Philemon with Onesimus in the postcolony: exploring a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesis. Acta Theologica, 24, 225-236.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1015-8758 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2309-9089 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4314/actat.v36i1.13S
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/5296
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Theology, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderFaculty of Theology, University of the Free State
dc.subjectOnesimusen_ZA
dc.subjectPhilemonen_ZA
dc.subjectPaulen_ZA
dc.subjectRunaway-slave hypothesisen_ZA
dc.subjectPostcolonial studiesen_ZA
dc.titleReading Philemon with Onesimus in the postcolony: exploring a postcolonial runaway slave hypothesisen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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