What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics? : reading the New Testament / Tat-Siong Benny Liew.

Author/Creator:

Liew, Tat-Siong Benny

Publication:

Honolulu ; University of Hawai'i Press ; Los Angeles : UCLA Asian American Studies Center, c2008.

Series:

Intersections : Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies

Format/Description:

Book
xiv, 258 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Asian Americans -- Religion.
Theology, Doctrinal.

Contents:

What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics?
Medi(t)ations on and for a conversation
Reading with Yin Yang eyes : negotiating the ideological dilemma of a Chinese American biblical hermeneutics
Ambiguous admittance : consent and descent in Johns community of upward mobility
Overlapping (his)stories : reading Acts in Chinese America
Redressing bodies in Corinth : racial/ethnic politics and religious difference in the context of empire
Melancholia in diaspora : reading Paul's psycho-political operatives in 1 Corinthians
Immigrants and intertexts : biblical in(ter)ventions in Theresa Hak Kyung Chas Dictee
Telling times in (Asian) America : extraordinary poetics, everyday politics, and endless paradoxes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824831622 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0824831624 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

180907634

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