Towards an Asian American biblical hermeneutics : an intersectional anthology / Gale A. Yee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yee, Gale A., 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theology.

Asian American theology.

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible.

Hermeneutics.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, [2021]

Summary:

"Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial/ethnic population in the United States. Especially since the 1990s, readings by Asian American biblical scholars have been increasing to meet the particular theological and pastoral concerns of their Christian racial/ethnic seminarians, clergy, and churches. Gale A. Yee is one of their major interpreters, becoming the first Asian American and first woman of color president of the oldest professional guild devoted to the critical study of the Bible, the Society of Biblical Literature. This book is an anthology of her major, ground-breaking essays on Asian American theorizing and analysis of the biblical text. It is a retrospective of her growth of over almost three decades in wrestling with questions like "What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics and how does one undertake it?""-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: my autobiographical journey

Methodological interventions: definitions, explorations, and intersections

Inculturation and diversity in the politics of national identity

Refiguring the missionary position or we Asian North American women won't take this lying down!

Yin/yang is not me: an exploration into an Asian American biblical hermeneutics

"She stood in tears amid the alien corn": Ruth the perpetual foreigner and model minority

Racial melancholia and the book of Ruth

The woman warrior revisited: Jael, Fa Mulan, and American Orientalism

Coveting the vineyard: an Asian American readings of 1 Kings 21

Of foreigners and eunuchs: an Asian American reading of Isaiah 56:1-8

Jerusalem, Samaria, and Sodom: a sisterly urban triad in Ezekiel 16:44-63.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781725263406

1725263408

9781725263413

1725263416

OCLC:

1272882012

Publisher Number:

99988837294