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.

Social location and biblical interpretation in the United States. "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 -- The politics and poetics of location Mary Ann Tolbert.

Social location and biblical interpretation in global perspective. 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 -- Christianity, imperialism, and the decentering of privilege Mary Ann Tolbert.

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