T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics

Uriah Y. Kim is Dean, Vice President for Academic Affairs and John Dillenberger Professor of Biblical Studies, at Graduate Theological Union, USA.Seung Ai Yang is Associate Professor of New Testament, Chicago Theological Seminary, USA.

• AbbreviationsContributorsIntroduction to the Handbook - Uriah Y. Kim and Seung Ai YangPart One Contexts1 The Complex Heterogeneity of Asian American Identity - Tamara C. Ho2 Familism, Racialization, and Other Key Factors Shaping Chinese American Perspectives - Russell Jeung3 Filipinos in America: A Cartography of Diasporic Identities - Lester Edwin J. Ruiz 4 One Long Labor: Toward an Indian American Interreligious Consciousness - Jaisy A. Joseph and Khyati Y. Joshi 5 Of Mythologies, Wars, Exodus, and Adaptations: A Brief Account of a People Called Vi?t M? (Vietnamese Americans) - Mai-Anh Le Tran 6 The Biblical Hermeneutics: A Korean American Case - Jung Ha Kim 7 Japanese American Journeys of Remembrance, Identity, and Solidarity - Joanne Doi Part Two Methods8 Historical Criticism - Mary F. Foskett 9 Social Science Criticism and Its Relevance for Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics - D. N. Premnath 10 Asian American Literary Criticism - Jin Young Choi 11 Critical Methods and Critiques: Theological Interpretation - Bo H. Lim 12 Feminist Critical Theory and Asian American Feminist Biblical Interpretation - Seung Ai Yang 13 Toward an Asian North American Liberationist Hermeneutics - Julius-Kei Kato 14 More Than an Interpretation from a Different Perspective: A Postcolonial Reading from a Different Epistemological (Back)Ground - Uriah Y. Kim 15 Queer Hermeneutics: Queering Asian American Identities and Biblical Interpretation - Dong Sung Kim Part Three Texts16 The Exile of Cain and the Destiny of Humankind: Punishment and Protection - Hemchand Gossai 17 Women in Exodus and Asian Immigrant Women: Asian Female Immigrants’ Bible Reading Strategy on Exodus 1–4 - Esther HaeJin Park 18 Zelophehad’s Daughters as Lienü (Exemplary Women): Reading Num. 27:1-11 and 36:1-12 in the Discursive Context of Confucianism - Sonia Kwok Wong 19 Saul’s Question and the Question of Saul: A Deconstructive Reading of the Story of Endor in 1 Sam. 28:3-25 - Suzie Park 20 A Heart That Listens (1 Kings 3) - Jin H. Han 21 Of Foreigners and Eunuchs: An Asian American Reading of Isa. 56:1-8 - Gale A. Yee 22 Conceptual Blending in Joel 2:1-11: God’s Apocalyptic Storm-locust-warriors - Kevin Chau 23 Narrative of Jonah in Four Acts - Rajkumar Boaz Johnson 24 Reading Job as a Chinese Diasporian - Chloe Sun 25 Engaging Ecclesiastes Narrativally and Polyphonically with a Chinese Lens: Traditional Wisdom and “Collective Lived Experience under the Sun” in Dialogue - Barbara M. Leung Lai 26 Made in Babylon: Daniel 1 - John Ahn 27 Incising, Inscribing, and Concretizing Identity: Reading 1 Maccabees and Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i - Henry W. Morisada Rietz 28 Filial Piety and Radical Discipleship in Matthew - Diane G. Chen 29 The Absent Body and Postcolonial Melancholia (Mk 14:3-9) - Jin Young Choi 30 Privilege and Solidarity in Asian American Context (Lk. 14:15-24) - Raj Nadella31 God’s Love, Christ’s Cross, or Human Faith? Interpretations of Jn 3:16 in Ethnic Chinese American Churches - John Y. H. Yieh32 Lost and Silenced in Translation: Reading Pauline Discourse on Language in 1 Cor. 14 from an Asian American Perspective - Ekaputra Tupamahu 33 “My Story” in Intersection with Gal. 3: 26-28: An Indian-Dalit Feminist Interpretation - Surekha Nelavala 34 Imagined Nations, Real Women: Politics of Culture and Women’s Bodies. A Postcolonial, Feminist, and Indo-Western Interpretation of 1 Tim. 2:8-15 - Sharon Jacob 35 Always Ethnic, Never “American”: Reading 1 Peter through the Lens of the “Perpetual Foreigner” Stereotype - Janette H. Ok 36 The Practice of Hospitality in Early Christianity: Reading 2 John and 3 John from a Vietnamese American Perspective - Toan Do 37 Revelation from the Margins: A Vietnamese American Perspective - vanThanh Nguy?n Bibliography Subject Index Ancient Index

Uriah Kim and Seung Ai Yang have made a very significant contribution to the field of Asian American biblical hermeneutics through the publication of this volume, which represents the diversity of contexts and methods in the reading of texts. The diverse, rich, and sophisticated essays in the volume seek to showcase the field coming to maturity. It is a more than worthy sequel to Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation!