Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each chapter examines one of the twenty-seven documents thematically instead of following the traditional verse-by-verse commentary format.
Osvaldo D. Vena is emeritus professor of New Testament interpretation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Leticia A. Guardiola-Saenz is associate professor of Christian Scriptures/New Testament at Seattle University.
A major tidal turn has occurred in academic biblical studies, signaled by the arrival of the Global South into the colonial metropolitan centers. Not only do they insert their bodies, colors, races, accents, they also read and write back to the Empire, thereby underlining the imperative to revisit academic biblical studies pedagogy in terms of methods, theories, and content. This volume is heartily welcomed, for not only does it attest to this major tidal turn, but it also enables the responsible professor to change the syllabus accordingly. Let this be a happy arrival and reading for both the professors and students of biblical studies who wish answer to their times! --Musa W. Dube, Emory University There is simply no other book like this in the field of New Testament studies! The 'commentaries' in this edited volume, while all coming under the collective term of Latinx, show a diversity of perspectives at the same time. Most importantly, readers will find many fresh and cogent analyses to help them reconsider what they think they already know about the New Testament and Latinx communities. --Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross This compelling collection offers reflections by Latinx academics on a New Testament text in conversation with their contemporary social context. These comentarios, arranged in canonical order, are framed by helpful methodological essays by the editors. I commend this volume as an introduction to the New Testament; as a rich map of the diverse Latinidad expressions of faith, justice, and imaginario; and as a welcoming door into the future of biblical hermeneutics. --Ched Myers, co-author of Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Rights
