Global Voices : Reading the Bible in the Majority World

by Keener, Craig

• ISBN13: 9781619700093
• ISBN10: 1619700093
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-31
• Publisher: Hendrickson Pub

Summary

Ethnically and nationally diverse scholars familiar with both non-western and Western hermeneutic traditions explore what it means to hear, heed, and appreciate biblical interpretations from the non-Western world in this illuminating collection of writings.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Reading the Bible through Other Lenses: New Vistas from a Hispanic Diaspora Perspective	p. 3
Response: Multicultural Readings: A Biblical Warrant and an Eschatological Vision	p. 27
Neither Tamil Nor Sinhalese: Reading Galatians with Sri Lankan Christians	p. 39
Response: What Does Sri Lanka Have to Do with Galatia? The Hermeneutical Challenges, Benefits, and Potential of Global Readings of Scripture	p. 57
Word Becoming Flesh [On Appropriation]: Engaging Daniel as a Survival Manual	p. 65
Response: Reflections on Self and Survival	p. 79
Reading Ephesians 6:10-18 in the Light of African Pentecostal Spirituality	p. 83
Response: Moral Standing as a Community or Individual Exorcism in Ephesians 6:10-20?	p. 95
The Bible as Specimen, Talisman, and Dragoman in Africa: A Look at Some African Uses of the Psalms and 1 Corinthians 12-14	p. 99
Response: Promises and Questions of Reading the Bible in Africa	p. 115
Index of Modern Authors	p. 119
Index of Scripture and Other Sources	p. 125
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