Tat-Siong Benny Liew

Tat-Siong Benny Liew is an American New Testament scholar and a professor at the College of the Holy Cross.

Biography

Liew obtained his B.A. and M.A. from Olivet Nazarene University and completed a Ph.D. in New Testament from Vanderbilt University. He taught New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary and Pacific School of Theology and, in Autumn 2013, took up the 1956 Chair of New Testament Studies in the religious studies department of College of the Holy Cross.^[1]

Much of his scholarship is around New Testament studies, related to the gospels, and for promoting Asian American biblical hermeneutics.^[2]

Controversy

In 2018, the Holy Cross' alternative newspaper, the Fenwick Review, published extracts of Liew's scholarship which suggested that Jesus had "queer desires."

• Liew, Tat-Siong Benny (1999). Politics of Parousia: Reading Mark Inter(Con)Textually. Leiden: Brill.
  ISBN 978-90-04-11360-2
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• Liew, Tat-Siong Benny (2008). What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?: Reading the New Testament. University of Hawaii Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8248-3162-2
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• Liew, Tat-Siong Benny, ed. (2009). Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R.S. Sugirtharajah. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
  ISBN 978-1-906055-70-7
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• Bailey, Randall C.; Liew, Tat-Siong Benny;
  ISBN 978-1-58983-245-9
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• Liew, Tat-Siong Benny, ed. (2011). Reading Ideologies: Essays on the Bible and Interpretation in Honor of Mary Ann Tolbert. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
  ISBN 978-1-907534-27-0
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• Liew, Tat-siong Benny; Runions, Erin, eds. (2016). Psychoanalytic Mediations between Marxist and Postcolonial Reading of the Bible. SBL Press.
  ISBN 978-0-88414-166-2
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• Liew, Tat-siong Benny;
  ISBN 978-1-4985-7276-7
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