Friday, June 02, 2006
The Bible in Asian America
The final issue of the SBL journal Semeia, in 2002, was a double issue on “The Bible in Asian America.” SBL has posted a full-text PDF of the issue at its site. The articles include:
Introduction: Whose Bible? Which (Asian) America?
Tat-siong Benny Liew ..........................................................................1
PART I: READING THE BIBLE IN ASIAN AMERICA
1. From Babel to Pentecost: Finding a Home
in the Belly of the Empire
Eleazar S. Fernandez ..........................................................................29
2. Resident Aliens of the Diaspora: 1 Peter and Chinese
Protestants in San Francisco
Russell G. Moy ....................................................................................51
3. Uriah the Hittite: A (Con)Text of Struggle for Identity
Uriah (Yong-Hwan) Kim….................................................................69
4. Home as Memory, Metaphor, and Promise in Asian/
Pacific American Religious Experience
Rachel A. R. Bundang ........................................................................87
5. Shifts in Reading the Bible: Hermeneutical Moves
among Asian Americans
Roy I. Sano ..........................................................................................105
6. Multiplicity and Judges 19: Constructing a Queer
Asian Pacific American Biblical Hermeneutic
Patrick S. Cheng ................................................................................119
7. The Accidents of Being and the Politics of Identity:
Biblical Images of Adoption and Asian Adoptees in America
Mary F. Foskett ..................................................................................135
8. My Father Has No Children: Reflections on a Hapa
Identity toward a Hermeneutic of Particularity
Henry W. Rietz ..................................................................................145
PART II: READING READINGS OF THE BIBLE IN ASIAN AMERICA
9. The “Hidden Manna” That Sustains: Reading
Revelation 2:17 in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
Jane Naomi Iwamura….....................................................................161
10. America Seen Through a Different Lens: The Bible
in the Works of Yoshiko Uchida
Fumitaka Matsuoka ..........................................................................181
11. Writing New and Joyful Songs: Con-Versing with Joy Kogawa
Tat-siong Benny Liew ......................................................................195
12. Evangelical and Mainline Teachings on Asian American Identity
Russell Jeung ......................................................................................211
13. The Scandal of the “Model Minority” Mind? The Bible
and Second-Generation Asian American Evangelicals
Antony W. Alumkal….......................................................................237
14. Second-Generation Chinese Evangelical Use of the
Bible in Identity Discourse in North America
Timothy Tseng ..................................................................................251
15. Hermeneutics and Asian American Preaching
Eunjoo Mary Kim ..............................................................................269
16. Biblical Themes for Pastoral Care Revisited: An Asian
American Rereading of a Classic Pastoral Care Text
Peter Yuichi Clark ............................................................................291
17. “The Bible Tells Me to Hate Myself”: The Crisis in
Asian American Spiritual Leadership
Leng Leroy Lim…...............................................................................315
PART III: RESPONSE
18. At the Tables of an Asian American Banquet
Jung Ha Kim ......................................................................................325