On the last day of class back in fall 2016 in Berkeley, California, as a typical first-time teaching Ph.D. student of the social media generation, I was eager to post a group picture of the class on my Facebook page,… Read More ›
(B) Book Review
Reading Jesus’ Parables with Dao De Jing.
“Can Eastern classics contribute to biblical interpretation and hermeneutics?” In biblical scholarship, there have been ongoing interests in bringing the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman literature together with the Bible in order to bring fresh light on the texts… Read More ›
Messiah in Weakness: A Portrait of Jesus from the Perspective of the Dispossessed
In Messiah in Weakness, Yung Suk Kim presents an alternative understanding of weakness. He portrays the historical Jesus through a lens of weakness that deconstructs the traditional dualistic understanding of strength and weakness, in which strength is seen as positive… Read More ›
Violence, Otherness and Identity In Isaiah 63:1-6: The Trampling One Coming From Edom
It is “a damn Edom theology.” Bruce Cresson’s outright summary seems accurate, when one looks into Hebrew Bible’s dominant portrayals of Edom. Once Jacob’s envied brother yet a subjugated nation, if not a vassal, of past is now Israel’s arch… Read More ›
Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations
Mandolfo uses a number of methodologies to construct her theory, dialogic form criticism, including: Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism, Martin Buber’s existentialism, Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive criticism, Hilde Lindemann Nelson’s master narrative theory, Max Black’s interaction view of metaphor, Marvin A. Sweeney and… Read More ›
Article Response: “Where Is the Home for the Man of Luz?”
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 ›
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 ›
