Ways of Being, Ways of Reading

by Foskett, Mary F.

• ISBN13: 9780827242548
• ISBN10: 0827242549
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-15
• Publisher: Chalice Pr

Summary

Ways of Being, Ways of Reading is a collection of essays that address biblical interpretation and the Bible's role in Asian North America. The essayists in this volume represent a cross-section of the work formally being done in the area of biblical studies. Contributors to this volume have been trained in the multiple disciplines that constitute the field and represent a range of religious affiliations (including, but not limited to Christian tradition). The key issues and themes are: cultural hermeneutics, the politics of identity and what constitutes Asian American theology, among others.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
Biblical Interpretation in India: History and Issues	p. 1
Chinese Biblical Interpretation: History and Issues	p. 17
Biblical Interpretation in Korea: History and Issues	p. 31
Differences and Difficulties: Biblical Interpretation in the Southeast Asian Context	p. 45
Reading the Bible as an Asian American: Issues in Asian American Biblical Interpretation	p. 60
Neither Here nor There: Boundary and Identity in the Hagar Story	p. 70
The Realpolitik of Liminality in Josiah's Kingdom and Asian America	p. 84
Empowerment or Enslavement? Reading John 4 Intertextually with Ezra-Nehemiah	p. 99
A Light to the Nations: The Sociological Approach in Korean American Interpretation	p. 112
Lot's Wife, Ruth, and To Thi: Gender and Racial Representation in a Theological Feast of Stories	p. 123
Betwixt and Between: Toward a Hermeneutics of Hyphenation	p. 137
Yin/Yang Is Not Me: An Exploration into an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics	p. 152
Constructing Hybridity and Heterogeneity: Asian American Biblcial Interpretation from a Third-Generation Perspective	p. 164
Obscured Beginnings: Lessons from the Study of Christian Origins	p. 178
Living Past: A Hapa Identifying with the Exodus, the Exile, and the Internment	p. 192
Notes	p. 205
Selected Bibliography	p. 238
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