Reading From This Place Vol. 2
Are some readings of the Bible more objective than others? More privileged? More true? How does one's own life situation shape one's reading of the text? What will acknowledgment of the validity of a variety of perspectives mean for historical-critical methods of interpretation? The present dizzying pluralism of "locations" - not only of ethnicity, class, and gender, but also of social and religious standpoints - presents a daunting challenge to older, mainstream interpretive schemes. In this...
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Are some readings of the Bible more objective than others? More privileged? More true? How does one's own life situation shape one's reading of the text? What will acknowledgment of the validity of a variety of perspectives mean for historical-critical methods of interpretation? The present dizzying pluralism of "locations" - not only of ethnicity, class, and gender, but also of social and religious standpoints - presents a daunting challenge to older, mainstream interpretive schemes. In this landmark project, Segovia, Tolbert, and their fifteen other contributors have begun to measure the impact of social location on the theory and practice of biblical interpretation. This volume, and the international one to follow, signals the critical legitimation of reading strategies that supplement or modify or even in some ways dethrone the historical-critical paradigm that has dominated academic biblical studies for 200 years. It will provide immediate and enduring guidance to scholars and students sorting through the complex epistemological, social, historical, and religious questions that issue from this paradigm shift.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction: "And They Began to Speak in Other Tongues": Competing Modes of Discourse in Contemporary Biblical Criticism11Acknowledging the Contextual Character of Male, European-American Critical Exegeses: An Androcritical Perspective352Toward a Hermeneutics of the Diaspora: A Hermeneutics of Otherness and Engagement573Social Location and the Hermeneutical Mode of Integration754Reading Texts as Reading Ourselves: A Chapter in the History of African-American Biblical Interpretation955The Author/Text/Reader and Power: Suggestions for a Critical Framework for Biblical Studies1096They're Nothing but Incestuous Bastards: The Polemical Use of Sex and Sexuality in Hebrew Canon Narratives1217Reading from My Bicultural Place: Acts 6:1-71398"By the Rivers of Babylon": Exile as a Way of Life1499Reading the Cornelius Story from an Asian Immigrant Perspective16510"Hemmed in on Every Side": Jews and Women in the Book of Susanna17511"And I Will Strike Her Children Dead": Death and the Deconstruction of Social Location19112Solidarity and Contextuality: Readings of Matthew 18:21-3519913A Second Step in African Biblical Interpretation: A Generic Reading Analysis of Acts 8:26-4021314The Uninflected Therefore of Hosea 4:1-323115Framing Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary: A Student Self-Inventory on Biblical Hermeneutics25116Reading for Liberation26317The God of Jesus in the Gospel Sayings Source277Afterwords: The Politics and Poetics of Location305Index of Names319
