Liew, Tat-siong Benny.

What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics? : reading the New Testament / Tat-siong Benny Liew. - Honolulu ; University of Hawai'i Press ; Los Angeles : UCLA Asian American Studies Center, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages). - Intersections. Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies . - Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics? -- Medi(t)ations on and for a conversation -- Reading with Yin Yang eyes : negotiating the ideological dilemma of a Chinese American biblical hermeneutics -- Ambiguous admittance : consent and descent in Johns community of upward mobility -- Overlapping (his)stories : reading Acts in Chinese America -- Redressing bodies in Corinth : racial/ethnic politics and religious difference in the context of empire -- Melancholia in diaspora : reading Paul's psycho-political operatives in 1 Corinthians -- Immigrants and intertexts : biblical in(ter)ventions in Theresa Hak Kyung Chas Dictee -- Telling times in (Asian) America : extraordinary poetics, everyday politics, and endless paradoxes.

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Bible.--New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--New Testament.


Asian Americans--Religion.
Theology, Doctrinal.
RELIGION--Biblical Reference--Quotations.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--Systematic.
Asian Americans--Religion.
Theology, Doctrinal.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

BS2361.3 / .L54 2008eb

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