What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament / / Tat-siong Benny Liew.

"Liew is one of the most articulate, creative and sophisticated biblical scholars in North America. What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? has not caused me to question that judgment. A set of provocative questions, arguments, issues, and problems, the book opens a window onto what it me...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]
©2008
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ; 35
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Medi(t)ations on and for a Conversation
  • 2. Reading with Yin Yang Eyes: Negotiating the Ideological Dilemma of a Chinese American Biblical Hermeneutics
  • 3. Ambiguous Admittance: Consent and Descent in John's Community of "Upward" Mobility
  • 4. Overlapping (His)Stories: Reading Acts in Chinese America
  • 5. Redressing Bodies in Corinth: Racial/Ethnic Politics and Religious Difference in the Context of Empire
  • 6. Melancholia in Diaspora: Reading Paul's Psycho-Political Operatives in 1 Corinthians
  • 7. Immigrants and Intertexts: Biblical In(ter)ventions in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee
  • 8. Telling Times in (Asian) America: Extraordinary Poetics, Everyday Politics, and Endless Paradoxes
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index