Brahmin and his Bible

On the bicentenary of the publication of Raja Rammohun Roy''s Precepts of Jesus, R. S. Sugirtharajah situates Roy''s compilation of the moral teachings of Jesus in its social, cultural and political context and analyses the hermeneutical issues it generated. In doing so, he documents the often acrimonious exegetical exchanges between Roy and the missionaries over the standing and status of the Bib...