Article Response to Uriah Y. Kim, “Where Is the Home for the Man of Luz?” Interpretation 65 (3):250-262 (2011). As I am an international student from Korea, which is the same place the author Uriah Y. Kim is from, I sympathize… Read More ›
(B) Book Review
A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience: Creating a Borderland, Constructing a Hybrid Identity
In this groundbreaking and boundary-crossing work, Park develops a spirituality of dislocation for Asian immigrant women in the United States. Park situates her work within the fields of Christian Spirituality and postcolonial studies, and demonstrates how both lived experiences and… Read More ›
Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology
Kwok Pui-lan is internationally known for her postcolonial and Asian feminist approaches to theology and biblical studies. Influenced by post-structuralism, postcolonial theories, and feminist criticism, Kwok’s theological investigations cover diverse academic disciplines, including classical systematic theology, biblical studies, and feminist… Read More ›
Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark
In this volume, Jin Young Choi provides an alternative understanding of discipleship in the Gospel of Mark. Using the hermeneutics of phronesis, she offers a fresh interpretation of three passages, Mark 6:45-52, 7:24-30, and 7:31-37. The key contribution of her… Read More ›
Identity and Loyalty in the David Story: A Postcolonial Reading
In line with his previous postcolonial reading of biblical nation narrative, Decolonizing Josiah: Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Deuteronomistic History (2005), Uriah Kim re-reads the Davidic story of national establishment with postcolonial concerns. In this volume, Kim employs a… Read More ›
(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 ›
(Review on Article) Revisiting the Parable of the Prodigal Son for Decolonization: Luke’s Reconfiguration of Oikos in 15:11-32
Rohun Park’s postcolonial reading of the parable of the prodigal son comes from his experience as a resident alien studying the New Testament in the United States. Park argues that the driving force of the Roman Empire is oikos calling… Read More ›
What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?
In this first single-authored book on Asian American biblical hermeneutics, Liew answers the inquiry of those who wish to learn what Asian American biblical hermeneutics is. When they pick up this book and begin to read it, however, they might… Read More ›
Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation
This groundbreaking work of contemporary Asian biblical scholars is worthy of our attention who want to study the Bible from Asian and Asian American context. Unlike the expectation of readers who hope to grasp what Asian (American) biblical hermeneutics is,… Read More ›
