Introduction For almost a half-year, I lived in Hong Kong off a road that was lined with prostitutes each night. Three things always shocked me as I would walk home on my street: 1) There seemed to be more and… Read More ›
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Saul, David, and Mimetic Desire: A Girardian Reading of 1 Samuel 18-19
Note: This essay is a revised version of the presentation I delivered during the Colloquium on Violence and Religion held in Saint Louis University on July 8th-12th, 2015. This essay aims at scrutinizing the interpersonal relationship between Saul and David in… Read More ›
What I Do I will also Continue to Do! (Rhetoric from the Edge in 2 Corinthians 11:1–6, 12–15: A Dalit Reading): Part I
1. Introduction The rhetoric of the marginalized … demonstrates that … the ‘humblest’ do not only ‘stand forth’ in order to persuade; by persuading, they are also ‘standing forth,’ assuming agency.1 These words of Jacqueline Bacon aptly capture… Read More ›
A Dialogue between Matthew 20:1-16 (the Prodigal Employer) and Ku Kim’s My Hope: Part II
Matthew 20:1-16 (the Parable of the Prodigal Employer) Matthew 20:1-16, often called the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, is placed at the center of Matthew’s three episodes where Jesus teaches about “the last being first and the first… Read More ›
A Dialogue between Matthew 20:1-16 (the Prodigal Employer) and Ku Kim’s My Hope: Part I
Introduction Once again, an Indonesian man with a white bandage on his ring-finger came to my office where I was volunteering as a labor-counselor at the Galilee Presbyterian church in Seoul, Korea, back in 2005. ‘No, please do not uncover…’… Read More ›
A Case for Asian American Posthumanist Hermeneutics
A Case for Asian American Posthumanist Hermeneutics In their editorial book, They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism, Randall C. Bailey, Benny Tat-siong Liew, and Fernando F. Segovia premised their collaborative work by celebrating and expounding… Read More ›
The Christological and Eschatological Significance of Jesus’ Second Sign-Miracle in the Fourth Gospel: Healing of the Official’s Son in 4:43-54
INTRODUCTION The first two miracles in the Gospel of John form a literary inclusio around the beginning chapters of the Gospel, commonly known as the “Cana Cycle” (2:1–4:54),1 because of their common geographical and thematic settings. Geographically, both miracles take… Read More ›
Race and Scripture
Race and scripture are, for me, both by-products of endless processes or productions of contested and contradictory meanings that can be used for different ends (like oppression and/or resistance). Both concepts are thus flexible and multiple, and are better engaged… Read More ›
Biblical Moral Dilemmas: The Case of Canaanites
Introduction The Bible is believed to provide principles of conduct in every aspect of Christians’ daily lives. In other words, Christians have used the Bible to legitimize certain decisions and to criticize certain social events. One of the problems of… Read More ›
Subversive Implications of 2 Kings 7:3-10 with Focus on the Lepers
People suffering from the skin disease in ancient Israel were considered to be unclean, and were required to live outside of the community until they were cured (see Lev 13:34-36; cf. Num 12:15).1 They were excluded from the normal life… Read More ›
