When I was doing my graduate studies, after completing my coursework, my dissertation advisor, Jean-François Racine, offered a course on “Dreams and Visions in the New Testament.” My initial reaction was ambivalent. On the one hand, I was “excited.” I had taken… Read More ›
Interest in the social realities of the world that the earliest Jesus-followers inhabited has long fascinated historians of Christian origins. Recent scholarship has recognized not only the external realities that Jesus-followers had to negotiate, but also the internal creative agency… Read More ›
What happens when “divine speech” must pass through human tongues? In Contesting Languages, Ekaputra Tupamahu challenges the dominant claim that Paul’s discussion of “tongues” in 1 Corinthians refers primarily to ecstatic or angelic speeches. Instead, Tupamahu argues that Paul is… Read More ›
“Never judge a book by its cover.” This was certainly true for me with Yung Suk Kim’s groundbreaking book, How to Read the Gospels: An Introduction. While waiting for the review copy to arrive, my expectations were low because I… Read More ›
Since the late 20th century, various ethnic groups have developed different contextual biblical interpretations on the basis of their specific geopolitical contexts. These include the liberation, African(a) and African American, Asian and Asian American, and islander biblical interpretations. Such contextual… Read More ›
This volume celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Committee on Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession (CUREMP), a committee within the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) dedicated to advancing underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in biblical studies. In… Read More ›
I was very glad that Fortress decided to send me a review copy of this book because when I heard about it, I thought, “If there is one book Asian American Theological Forum (AATF) has to review for its Bible… Read More ›
After the 2021 Cal-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church ended, I drove to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento to please my little children and fulfill my familial duty. Having grudgingly paid the parking fee ($15 flat… Read More ›
As a book that doubles as a performative act of dialogue, Betweener Talkis an ambitious, inspiring exchange of ideas that work against ideologically binary views of the world. Grounding the conversation is the authors’ shared… Read More ›
Yung Suk undertakes an in-depth study of the gospel in the New Testament. Embarking on a literary analysis of reading Galatians, this ambitious project aims to illuminate the various aspects of Paul’s view of “the internal logic of the theme… Read More ›
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