Reading from this place / Fernando F. Segovia and Mary Ann Tolbert, editors. [print]

Papers originally presented at conferences on Social Location and Biblical Interpretation and on Globalization and Theological Education, the first held at Vanderbilt University, Jan. 21-24, 1993.

V.1 Social location and biblical interpretation in the United States. Introduction: "And they began to speak in other tongues" : competing modes of discourse in contemporary biblical criticism Fernanado F. Segovia Social locations and hermeneutics. Acknowledging the contextual character of male, European-American critical exegeses : an androcritical perspective Daniel Patte Toward a hermeneutics of the diaspora : a hermeneutics of otherness and engagement Frenando F. Segovia Social location and the hermeneutical mode of integration Herman C. Waetjen Reading texts as reading ourselves : a chapter in the history of African-American biblical interpretation Vincent L. Wimbush The author/text/reader and power : suggestions for a critical framework for biblical studies Gale A. Yee Contestations : social locations in conflict. They're nothing but incestuous bastards : the polemical use of sex and sexuality in Hebrew canon narratives Randall C. Bailey Reading from my bicultural place : Acts 6:1-7 Justo L. Gonzalez "By the rivers of Babylon" : exile as a way of life Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Reading the Cornelius story from an Asian immigrant perspective Chan-Hie Kim "Hemmed in on every side" : Jews and women in the Book of Susanna Amy-Jill Levine "And I will strike her children dead" : death and the deconstruction of social location Tina Pippin Solidarity and contextuality : readings from Matthew 18:21-35 Sharon H. Ringe A second step in African biblical interpretation : a generic reading analysis of Acts 8:26-40 Abraham Smith Social location and accountability. The uninflected Therefore of Hosea 4:1-3 Walter Brueggemann Framing biblical interpretation at New York Theological Seminary : a student self-inventory on biblical hermeneutics Norman K. Gottwald Reading for liberation Mary Ann Tolbert The God of Jesus in the gospel sayings source Antoinette Clark Wire -- Afterwords: The politics and poetics of location Mary Ann Tolbert.

V.2 Social location and biblical interpretation in global perspective. Introduction: Cultural studies and contemporary biblical criticism : ideological criticism as mode of discourse Fernando F. Segovia Readings from Africa. The divine name Yahweh Elohim from the 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 Teres Okure Readings from Asia. Pentecost and the Intifada Naim Ateek On John 7:53-8:11 : a well-cherished 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 Isiah 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 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 Readings from Latin America. Social location and biblical interpretation : a tropical reading Tereza Cavalcanti Exegesis of Second Isiah from the perspective of the oppressed : paths for reflection J. Severino Croatto Reading the Bible in the ecclesial base communities of Latin America : 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 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 -- Afterword: Christianity, imperialism, and the decentering of privilege Mary Ann Tolbert.

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