What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament

Tat-siong Benny Liew

Tat-siong Benny Liew

What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament

In: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies, 35

University of Hawaii Press | 2008

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824865573

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"Liew is one of the most articulate, creative and sophisticated biblical scholars in North America. What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? has not caused me to question that judgment. A set of provocative questions, arguments, issues, and problems, the book opens a window onto what it means for human beings to try to negotiate a rather complex contemporary world, with evidence of increasingly blurred but also thick ideological and social-cultural boundaries and overlapping but also recognizable and isolable identity formations. That Liew does this by using and bringing together the category "Asian American" and the phenomenon of the reading of "the Bible" as sharp analytical wedge is all the more fascinating. This impressive book represents the collapse of the center and a major shift in orientation to the peripheries. It is a major achievement and a major challenge." —Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University

"A groundbreaking achievement! Dr. Liew uses his amazing breadth of scholarship to challenge Eurocentrism in biblical studies and secularism in Asian American studies at once. Like Gender Trouble, The Future of an Illusion, and other original work, this book will become a classic in Asian American biblical hermeneutics, setting the terms of debate for years to come. After Liew, reading the New Testament will never be the same again."—Kwok Pui-lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

This is the first single-authored book on Asian American biblical interpretation. It covers all of the major genres within the New Testament and broadens biblical hermeneutics to cover not only the biblical texts, but also Asian American literature and current films and events like genome research and September 11. Despite its range, the book is organized around three foci: methodology (the distinguishing characteristics or sensibilities of Asian American biblical hermeneutics), community (the politics of inclusion and exclusion), and agency. The work intentionally affirms Asian America as a panethnic coalition while acknowledging the differences within it. In other words, it attempts to balance Asian American panethnicity and heterogeneity, or coalition building and identity politics.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	vii
Preface Free access PDF PDF	ix
1. What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Medi(t)ations on and for a Conversation Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
2. Reading with Yin Yang Eyes: Negotiating the Ideological Dilemma of a Chinese American Biblical Hermeneutics Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	18
3. Ambiguous Admittance: Consent and Descent in John’s Community of “Upward” Mobility Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	34
4. Overlapping (His)Stories: Reading Acts in Chinese America Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	57
5. Redressing Bodies in Corinth: Racial/Ethnic Politics and Religious Difference in the Context of Empire Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	75
6. Melancholia in Diaspora: Reading Paul’s Psycho-Political Operatives in 1 Corinthians Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	98
7. Immigrants and Intertexts: Biblical In(ter)ventions in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	115
8. Telling Times in (Asian) America: Extraordinary Poetics, Everyday Politics, and Endless Paradoxes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	134
Notes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	147
Works Cited Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	207
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	251

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