Post-Colonial Bible

An SBL paper attempts to apply post-colonial theory to the “Deuteronomistic” view of women as de-humanized sexualized temptresses. He of course places Deuteronomistic history late, and thus itself “post-colonial,” and he conveniently claims that any contrary evidence in Deuteronomy (eg, ch. 21).

Most problematic: What does he gain with his use of the theory? Not much. He already knows what view of women Deuteronomy will have before he looks at the text. Theory tells him. Who needs to do research?