RT Article
T1 Recent Research on Asian and Asian American Hermeneutics Related to the Hebrew Bible
JF Currents in biblical research
VO 17
IS 3
SP 238
OP 265
A1 Xie, Ting
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1669347877
AB Compared to Eurocentric biblical interpretations, Asian and Asian American hermeneutics is a relatively late phenomenon. Yet in the past three decades it has gradually emerged as one of the critical interpretations in contemporary scholarship. The common themes shared among Asian and Asian American hermeneutics revolve around the issues and intersections of identity, race, gender, class, liberation, and how one's social location shapes the ways in which one interprets scripture. As regards Asian and Asian American hermeneutics related to the Hebrew Bible, the book of Exodus has received particularly broad attention due to its migration and liberation motifs. In addition, border-crossing characters and characters with hybrid identities, such as Moses, Ruth, Hagar, Daniel, and Esther, become key subjects for theological reflection. Methodologies are centered on ethnographical, feminist, postcolonial, intercontextual, and culturally specific perspectives such as Dalit and Minjung theologies, as well as LGBTQ readings. As Asian and Asian American hermeneutics related to the Hebrew Bible continues to flourish, the future of this particular way of reading scripture will likely include intersectional and integrational approaches and reception history, and will contribute to the broad interpretive spectrums of the twenty-first century.
K1 Asian American hermeneutics
K1 Asian hermeneutics
K1 Dalit
K1 Exodus
K1 Biblical Interpretation
K1 Diaspora
K1 Ethnography
K1 feminist interpretation
K1 Hybridity
K1 Identity
K1 intercontextual interpretation
K1 model minority
K1 perpetual foreigner
K1 postcolonial interpretation
DO 10.1177/1476993X19832139