T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics

Uriah Y. Kim is Dean, Vice President for Academic Affairs and John Dillenberger Professor of Biblical Studies, at Graduate Theological Union, USA. Seung Ai Yang is Associate Professor of New Testament, Chicago Theological Seminary, USA.

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Contributors
Introduction to the Handbook - Uriah Y. Kim and Seung Ai Yang
Part One Contexts
1 The Complex Heterogeneity of Asian American Identity - Tamara C. Ho
2 Familism, Racialization, and Other Key Factors Shaping Chinese American Perspectives - Russell Jeung
3 Filipinos in America: A Cartography of Diasporic Identities - Lester Edwin J. Ruiz
4 One Long Labor: Toward an Indian American Interreligious Consciousness - Jaisy A. Joseph and Khyati Y. Joshi
5 Of Mythologies, Wars, Exodus, and Adaptations: A Brief Account of a People Called Vi?t M? (Vietnamese Americans) - Mai-Anh Le Tran
6 The Biblical Hermeneutics: A Korean American Case - Jung Ha Kim
7 Japanese American Journeys of Remembrance, Identity, and Solidarity - Joanne Doi
Part Two Methods
8 Historical Criticism - Mary F. Foskett
9 Social Science Criticism and Its Relevance for Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics - D. N. Premnath
10 Asian American Literary Criticism - Jin Young Choi
11 Critical Methods and Critiques: Theological Interpretation - Bo H. Lim
12 Feminist Critical Theory and Asian American Feminist Biblical Interpretation - Seung Ai Yang
13 Toward an Asian North American Liberationist Hermeneutics - Julius-Kei Kato
14 More Than an Interpretation from a Different Perspective: A Postcolonial Reading from a Different Epistemological (Back)Ground - Uriah Y. Kim
15 Queer Hermeneutics: Queering Asian American Identities and Biblical Interpretation - Dong Sung Kim
Part Three Texts
16 The Exile of Cain and the Destiny of Humankind: Punishment and Protection - Hemchand Gossai
17 Women in Exodus and Asian Immigrant Women: Asian Female Immigrants’ Bible Reading Strategy on Exodus 1–4 - Esther HaeJin Park
18 Zelophehad’s Daughters as Lienü (Exemplary Women): Reading Num. 27:1-11 and 36:1-12 in the Discursive Context of Confucianism - Sonia Kwok Wong
19 Saul’s Question and the Question of Saul: A Deconstructive Reading of the Story of Endor in 1 Sam. 28:3-25 - Suzie Park
20 A Heart That Listens (1 Kings 3) - Jin H. Han
21 Of Foreigners and Eunuchs: An Asian American Reading of Isa. 56:1-8 - Gale A. Yee
22 Conceptual Blending in Joel 2:1-11: God’s Apocalyptic Storm-locust-warriors - Kevin Chau
23 Narrative of Jonah in Four Acts - Rajkumar Boaz Johnson
24 Reading Job as a Chinese Diasporian - Chloe Sun
25 Engaging Ecclesiastes Narrativally and Polyphonically with a Chinese Lens: Traditional Wisdom and “Collective Lived Experience under the Sun” in Dialogue - Barbara M. Leung Lai
26 Made in Babylon: Daniel 1 - John Ahn
27 Incising, Inscribing, and Concretizing Identity: Reading 1 Maccabees and Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i - Henry W. Morisada Rietz
28 Filial Piety and Radical Discipleship in Matthew - Diane G. Chen
29 The Absent Body and Postcolonial Melancholia (Mk 14:3-9) - Jin Young Choi
30 Privilege and Solidarity in Asian American Context (Lk. 14:15-24) - Raj Nadella
31 God’s Love, Christ’s Cross, or Human Faith? Interpretations of Jn 3:16 in Ethnic Chinese American Churches - John Y. H. Yieh
32 Lost and Silenced in Translation: Reading Pauline Discourse on Language in 1 Cor. 14 from an Asian American Perspective - Ekaputra Tupamahu
33 “My Story” in Intersection with Gal. 3: 26-28: An Indian-Dalit Feminist Interpretation - Surekha Nelavala
34 Imagined Nations, Real Women: Politics of Culture and Women’s Bodies. A Postcolonial, Feminist, and Indo-Western Interpretation of 1 Tim. 2:8-15 - Sharon Jacob
35 Always Ethnic, Never “American”: Reading 1 Peter through the Lens of the “Perpetual Foreigner” Stereotype - Janette H. Ok
36 The Practice of Hospitality in Early Christianity: Reading 2 John and 3 John from a Vietnamese American Perspective - Toan Do
37 Revelation from the Margins: A Vietnamese American Perspective - vanThanh Nguy?n
Bibliography
Subject Index
Ancient Index