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 ›
Marginalized or minoritized folks have been conditioned for far too long into believing that the white male is the only legitimate presence and normative center of discourse. Western Christianity has fashioned an idol in a white (and color-blind) Jesus, and… Read More ›
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 ›
“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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 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 ›
Asian American Theological Forum 