Biblical studies are proving to be a test case of the large interpretive issues of how one's "location"social, cultural, ethnic, and genderaffects one's reading of the text and its import. Segovia and Tolbert gather in this volume leading biblical interpreters from around the globe to address the complex hermeneutical and religious questions attendant to this paradigm shift. From Jerusalem to Buenos Aires, from Hong Kong to Copenhagen, the nineteen international biblical scholars in this volume bring their diverse and distinctive experiences and insights to bear on this interpretive revolution and its consequences. This volume, and its North American companion, signals the critical legitimation of reading strategies that supplement or modify or even, in some ways, dethrone the historical-critical paradigm that has dominated academic biblical studies for two hundred years. It will provide immediate and enduring guidance to scholars and students sorting through the complex epistemological, social, historical, and religious questions that issue from this momentous change.
Fernando F. Segovia is Professor of New Testament and early Christian Literature at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, Tennessee. Mary Ann Tolbert is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.
Preface Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction PART ONE: READINGS FROM AFRICA The Divine Name Yahweh 'Elohim from an African Perspective Temba L.J. Mafico Biblical Interpretation and the Social Location of the Interpreter: African Women's Reading of the Bible Mercy Amba Oduyoye Reading from This Place: Some Problems and Prospects Teresa Okure, S.H.C.J. PART TWO: READINGS FROM ASIA Pentecost and the Intifada Naim Ateek On John 7:53-8:11: A Well-Cherished but Much-Clouded Story Hisako Kinukawa Exile and Return in the Perspective of 1997 Archie C.C. Lee Laughing at Idols: The Dark Side of Biblical Monotheism (an Indian Reading of Isaiah 44:9-20) George M. Soares-Prabhu A Voice from the Margin: Reading Matthew 15:21-28 in an Australian Feminist Key Elaine M. Wainwright PART THREE: READINGS FROM EUROPE Gender Hermeneutics: The Effective History of Consciousness and the Use of Social Gender in the Gospels Lone Fatum In This Place: The Center and the Margins in Theology Christopher Rowland Working for Liberation: A Change of Perspective in New Testament Scholarship Luise Schottroff PART FOUR: READINGS FROM LATIN AMERICA Social Location and Biblical Interpretation: A Tropical Reading Tereza Cavalcanti Exegesis of Second Isaiah from the Perspective of the Oppressed: Paths for Reflection J. Severino Croatto Reading the Bible in the Ecclesial Base Communities of Latin America: The Meaning of Social Context Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade Apocalyptic and the Economy: A Reading of Revelation 18 from the Experience of Economic Exclusion Nestor Miguez The Hermeneutics of Liberation: A Hermeneutics of the Spirit Pablo Richard PART FIVE: READINGS FROM NORTH AMERICA The Personification of Cities as Female in the Hebrew Bible: The Thesis of Aloysius Fitzgerald, F.S.C. Peggy L. Day Toward Intercultural Criticism: A Reading Strategy from the Diaspora Fernando F. Segovia When Resistance Becomes Repression: Mark 13:9-27 and the Poetics of Location Mary Ann Tolbert Afterwords Christianity, Imperialism, and the Decentering of Privilege Mary Ann Tolbert Index of Names
