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vol. 2 no. 1
Vol. 2 No. 1 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “A Case for Asian American Posthumanist Hermeneutics” Dong Hyeon Jeong, PDF Article Review on Sejong Chun. “Exorcism or Healing? A Korean Preacher’s Reading of Mark 5:1-20.” In Mark, Texts @… Read More ›
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vol. 1 no. 3
Vol. 1 No. 3 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article 1: “Race and Scripture” Tat-siong Benny Liew, PDF Article 2: “The Christological and Eschatological Significance of Jesus’ Second Sign-Miracle in the Fourth Gospel: Healing of the Official’s Son in 4:43-54”… Read More ›
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vol. 1 no. 2
Vol. 1 No. 2 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “Biblical Moral Dilemmas: The Case of Canaanites” Jimyung Kim, PDF Book Review on What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?, Hyun Ho Park, PDF History Article: “Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Civilizing… Read More ›
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vol. 1 no. 1
Vol. 1 No. 1 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “Subversive Implications of 2 Kings 7:3-10 with Focus on the Lepers” Yoon Kyung Kim, PDF Book Review on Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation, Hyun Ho… Read More ›
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Using the Bible in Practical Theology
The introduction says that this book is for pastors and lay people, but how many lay people are college-educated with western philosophical backgrounds? The academic background of the author is obvious from the beginning. For an academic familiar with discussions… Read More ›
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Understanding Masculinity in Tevye the Dairyman
I. Introduction 1. Literary Character Tevye and its Complexity “Tevye is no woman.” Tevye, the narrator and protagonist of Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman, repetitively emphasizes his maleness throughout his monologue. The intention of this repetitive emphasis, however, seems… Read More ›
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(Article Review) Sejong Chun “Exorcism or Healing? A Korean Preacher’s Reading of Mark 5:1-20”
Note: Chun’s article appears in Mark: Texts @ Contexts edited by Nicole Duran, Teresa Okure, and Daniel Patte, pp. 15-34. Summary: Sejong Chun’s reading of Mark 5:1-20, the story of the Gerasene demonic, is based on his intercontextual dialogue acknowledging… Read More ›
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(Part II): Glocality and Covenant: Korean American Interchurch Unity
This essay is the second of the three part series that attempts to demonstrate how the global dialectic of convergence and divergence is playing out in the Korean American church, particularly in regards to its communal vision.1 The previous essay… Read More ›
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The Law and Sin: A Reading of Paul with Lacan and Levinas
1 It has been customary to exclude God in explaining and understanding natural, social, and human phenomena. Psychoanalysis is exemplary. It reduces God to a mere psychological product. This article criticizes psychoanalysis with Levinas’ philosophy and Paul’s theology. It concentrates… Read More ›
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Refusing to be Comforted
A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, for they are no more. —Matthew 2:18 “I want to know what happened to my baby! I want to know… Read More ›