New Book: Asian American Biblical Interpretation

Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation
Edited by Mary F. Foskett and Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan
ISBN: 9780827242548

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Ways of Being, Ways of Reading is a collection of essays that address biblical interpretation and the Bible's role from an Asian North point of view. Beginning with the history of biblical interpretation in Asian countries and cultures, this impressive collection by noted contemporary scholars, address issues and themes such as cultural hermeneutics, the politics of identity, and what constitutes Asian American theology.

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"Once in a while, I come across a book that strikes me as breaking new ground, because it creates a knowledge that does not belong to anyone and a knowledge that is hence potentially freer from disciplinary control in its development. Foskett and Kuan have put together a collection of essays that has precisely that possibility. Not only does Ways of Being, Ways of Reading demonstrate that biblical interpretation is a matter of ontological significance, it also provides in my mind a cultural basis for dispersing Asian American political influence." -Tat-siong Benny Liew, Pacific School of Religion

Contributors include: Devadasan N. Premnath, John Yueh-Han Yieh, Samuel Cheon, Philip P. Chia, Andrew Yueking Lee, Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan, Uriah Yong-Hwan Kim, Jean K. Kim, John Ahn, Mai-Anh Le Tran, Sze-Kar Wan, Gale A. Yee, Frank M. Yamada, Mary F. Foskett, and Henry W. Morisada Rietz