Asian American biblical hermeneutics
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Asian American biblical hermeneutics or Asian American biblical interpretation is the study of the interpretation of the
Christian Bible, informed by Asian American
history and experiences.
History
Tat-siong Benny Liew, and Sze-kar Wan challenged the dominant historical critical approach to studying the Bible as being insufficient for addressing the ethical concerns of the present, especially as experienced by Asian Americans.[2] This has not led to a simple rejection of historical criticism. Instead, it has tended to "deploy historical inquiry with a decidedly ethical consciousness."[1]
Since the 2000s, in the midst of third-wave feminism, there has also been the rise of Asian American feminist biblical hermeneutics.[3] Some of the first works in the area include Gale A. Yee's Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible (2003)[4] and Kwok Pui-lan's Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (2005).[5]
There has been some challenge against Asian American biblical hermeneutics as largely being developed by mainline scholars. In 2020, Asian American
Evangelicals established within the Institute for Biblical Research an "Asian-American Biblical Interpretation: Evangelical Voices" research group, hoping to pave new ground for Evangelical voices within the scholarship of Asian American biblical hermeneutics.[6]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-567-67261-2.
- ISBN 978-0-8272-4254-8.
- ISBN 978-0-567-67261-2.
- ISBN 978-1-4514-0822-5.
- ISBN 978-0-664-22883-5.
- ^ Eng, Milton; Lee, Max (21 October 2020). "Asian-American Biblical Interpretation: Evangelical Voices". Institute for Biblical Research. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
