BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION ACROSS CULTURES

BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION ACROSS CULTURES

Gordon Matties

Canadian Mennonite University

This bibliography is a work in process. It has been compiled to support the course Biblical Interpretation Across Cultures. Some sections contain only a few items. Most of my India material is being compiled in an extensive separate bibliography.

GENERAL

Adams, Daniel J. Biblical Hermeneutics: An Introduction. Taipei: Taiwan Theological College, 1976. Has a chapter “Toward an Asian Hermeneutic.”

Amaladoss, M., S.J. “Hermeneutic of Tradition and Social Change,” Indian Theological Studies 27/2 (1990) 113-32.

________. The Gospel and India’s Heritage. SPCK, 1942.

Ariarajah, S. Wesley. “The Bible and People of Other Faiths,” Risk 26 (1985) viii-xiv, 1-71.

Balslev, Anindita Niyogi, ed. Cross-Cultural Conversation. Scholars Press.

Beal, Timothy and David Gunn, eds. Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies: God, Identity and the Book. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Biblical Interpretation 2/3 (1994). The entire issue is devoted to biblical interpretation in Asia.

Blount, Brian K. Cultural Interpretation: Reorienting New Testament Criticism. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

Branson, Mark Lau and C. René Padilla, eds. Conflict and Context: Hermeneutics in the Americas. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986.

Brett, Mark G., ed. Ethnicity and the Bible. Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1996. Part II of this volume, “Culture and Interpretation,” contains essays on “Indigenous Peoples” and “The Politics of Interpretation.” Important essays include: Palblo Richard, “Biblical Interpretation from the Perspective of Indigenous Cultures of Latin America (Mayas, Kunas, and Quechuas)”; Susan Hawley, “Does God Speak Miskitu? The Bible and Ethnic Identity among the Miskitu of Nicaragua”; Thanzauva and R. L. Hnuni, “Ethnicity, Identity and Hermeneutics: An Indian Tribal Perspective”; “Lynne Hume, “The Rainbow Serpent, the Cross, and the Fax Machine: Australian Aboriginal Responses to the Bible”; R. S. Sugirtharajah, “Orientalism, Ethnonationalism and Transnationalism: Shifting Identities and Biblical Interpretation;” John Riches, “Cultural Bias in European and North American Biblical Scholarship”; Pieter F. Craffert, “On New Testament Interpretation and Ethnocentrism”; Fernando F. Segovia, “Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Biblical Studies.”

Brouwer, Steve, Paul Gifford, and Susan D. Rose. Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.

Brown, Robert McAfee. Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes. Westminster/John Knox Press.

Caldwell, Larry W. “Third Horizon Ethnohermeneutics: Re-evaluating New Testament Hermeneutical Models for Intercultural Bible Interpreters Today,” Asia Journal of Theology 1 (1987) 314-333.

Carson, Donald A., ed. Biblical Interpretation and the Church: Text and Context. Exeter, Devonshire: Paternoster, 1984. See articles: Donald Carson, “A Sketch of the Factors Determining Current Hermeneutical Debate in Cross Cultural Contexts”; Tite Tiénou, “The Church in African Theology: Description and Analysis of Hermeneutical Presuppositions”; Russell P. Shedd, “Social Justice: Underlying Hermeneutical Issues.”

Carson, Donald A., ed. The Church in the Bible and the World: An International Study. Exeter, U.K.: Paternoster; Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1987. See articles: “D. A. Carson, “Church and Mission: Reflections on Contextualization and the Third Horizon;” Sunand Sumithra, “Syncretism, Secularization and Renewal.”

Cartwright, Michael G. Article in Modern Theology April 1993 on Black Church reading of OT: Genesis 9 and Psalm 68.

Clines, David J. A. “Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International Perspective,” Biblical Interpretation 1/1 (1993) 67-87. With Responses by Pheme Perkins (88-95) and David Jobling (96-110).

Crowe, Jerome, C.P. From Jerusalem to Antioch: The Gospel Across Cultures. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1997.

Day, Peggy, David Jobling and Gerald Sheppard, eds. The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1991.

Dietrich, Walter and Ulrich Luz, eds. The Bible in a World Context: An Experiment in Contextual Hermeneutics. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 2002.

Duraisingh, Christopher, ed. Understanding Each Other: Reflections on Intercultural Hermeneutics. New York: WCC Publications.

Dyrness, William A. Learning About Theology from the Third World. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990.

Ekblad, Robert. Reading the Bible with the Damned. Leiderdorp: Deo Publishing, forthcoming.

Fernandez, Eleazar S. “Hermeneutics and the Bible in Liberation Theology: A Critique from other Companions in the Struggle,” VJTR 56/8 (1992) 385-402.

Gray, Sherman W., Jr. The Least of My Brothers: Matthew 25:31-46: A History of Interpretation. SBLDS 114. Scholars Press.

Hamlin, E John. “Interpreting the Bible in Southeast Asia,” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 42/1-2 (1988)105-109 1988.

Harrisville, Roy A. and Walter Sundberg. The Bible in Modern Culture: Theology and Historical-Critical Method from Spinoza to Käsemann. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996?

Hesselgrave, David J and Edward Rommen. Contextualization: Meanings, Methods, and Models. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1989.

Hilary, Mbachu. Inculturation Theology of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15: An Inspiration for the Igbo Church Today. European University Studies, Series 23, Theology, Vol. 520. Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, New York, etc.: Peter Lang, 1995.

Jobling, David. “Globalization in Biblical Studies/Biblical Studies in Globalization,” Biblical Interpretation 1/1 (1993) 96-110.

Johnson, Alan F. “The Bible and War in America: An Historical Survey,” JETS 28 (1985) 169-181.

Kattackal, Jacob. “Holy Scriptures in Indian Religious Thought,” Bible Bhashyam 10/1 (1984) 25-36.

Kaniarakath, G. “A Theology of ‘Inspiration’ in the Light of Second Heidegger and Indian Thought,” Bible Bhashyam 6/1 (1980) 18-30.

Keenan, John P. The Gospel of Mark: A Mahayana Reading. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995.

Kraft, Charles H. Christianity in Culture: A Study in Dynamic Biblical Theologizing in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1979. Pp. 116-146 reprinted in Donald K. McKim, editor, A Guide to Contemporary Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans: 1986), pp. 309-343.

Kraft, Charles H. and Tom N. Wisley, eds. Readings in Dynamic Indigeneity. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1979. See articles by René Padilla, “The Contextualization of the Gospel,” John S. Mbiti, “New Testament Eschatology in an African Background,” and Byang H. Kato, “Eschatology in Africa: Problems of Hermeneutics.”

Lambropoulos, V. The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation. Princeton University Press.

Larson, Gerald James and Eliot Deutsch, eds. Interpreting Across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989. Originally published by Princeton University Press, 1988. See especially Larson’s “Introduction: The ‘Age-Old Distinction Between the Same and the Other’” pp. 1-18, and other articles.

Lee, Archie C C. “Biblical Interpretation in Asian Perspectives,” Asia Journal of Theology 7 (Ap 1993) 35-39.

Legrand, Lucien. The Bible on Culture: Belonging or Dissenting?. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000.

Levenson, John R. and Priscilla Pope-Levenson, eds. Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1999.

Loewen, Jacob A. “The Hopi ‘Old Testament’: A First-Person Essay,” Missiology 23/2 (1995) 145-54.

________. The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2000.

Padilla, C. René. “The Interpreted Word: Reflections on Contextual Hermeneutics,” Themelios (September, 1981) 18-23. Reprinted in Donald K. McKim, editor, A Guide to Contemporary Hermeneutics: Major Trends in Biblical Interpretation, pp. 297-308. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986.

Padinjarekara. Christ in Ancient Vedas. Welch.

Pope-Levinson, Priscilla and John R. Levinson. Jesus in Global Contexts. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

Pope-Levinson, Priscilla and John R. Levinson. Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1999.

Powe, Karla, ed. Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture. Comumbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.

_______. “On the Metonymic Structure of Religious Experiences: The Experiences of Charismatic Christians,” Cultural Dynamics 2/4 (1989) 361-380.

Prior, Michael, CM. The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique. The Biblical Seminar 48. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Pui-Lan, Kwok. Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995?

Raiser, K. “A New Reading of the Bible? Ecumenical Perspectives from Latin America and Asia,” in Creative Biblical Exegesis: Christian and Jewish Hermeneutics Through the Centuries. Edited by B. Uffenheimer and H. G. Reventlow. JSOTSup 59. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1988.

Sanneh, Lamin. Encountering the West: Christianity and the Global Cultural Process: The African Dimension. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1993.

Raj, L. Anthony Savari. “The Diatopical Hermeneutis: R. Panikkar’s Response to the Scientific Study of Religions,” Journal of Dharma 21/2 (1996) 198-203.

Reid, Stephen Breck. Listening In: A Multicultural Reading of the Psalms. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.

Ritchie, Daniel E. “From Babel to Pentecost: Burke’s India, Ideological Multiculturalism, and a Christian Poetics,” Christianity and Literature 43 (1994) 393-414.

Samartha, Stanley. Between Two Cultures: Ecumenical Ministry in a Pluralist World. WCC Publications.

Samartha, S. J. “Religion, Language and Reality: Towards a Relational Hermeneutics,” Biblical Interpretation 2/3 (1994) 340-362.

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth, ed. Searching the Scriptures: Volume One: A Feminist Introduction. New York: Crossroad: 1995. Besides essays on feminist and womanist readings in the west, the volume includes essays on feminist readings in African, Latin American, and Native American contexts.

Segovia, Fernando and Mary Ann Tolbert, eds. Reading from this Place: Volume 1, Social Location and Biblical Interpretation in the United States. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

________. Reading from this Place: Volume 2. Social Location and Biblical Interpretation in Global Perspective, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

Semeia 77 (1997). Theme issue “Bible and Ethics of Reading.” This issue contains articles on the interface between readers’ “interests” and the ethics of interpretation.

Semeia 78 (1997) is a theme issue on “Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.”

Smith-Christopher, Daniel. article in Biblical Interpretation.

Smith-Christopher, Daniel, ed. Text and Experience: Towards a Cultural Exegesis of the Bible. The Biblical Seminar 35. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Stott, John R. W. and Robert Coote, eds. Down to Earth: Studies in Christianity and Culture. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1980.

Sugirtharajah, R. S. “Introduction, and Some Thoughts on Asian Biblical Hermeneutics,” Biblical Interpretation. 2/3 (1994) 251-63. See other articles in this issue of the journal for examples of interpretation of specific biblical texts.

________. The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

________. Vernacular Hermeneutics. The Bible and Postcolonialism 2. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

________. “The Bible and its Asian Readers,” Biblical Interpretation 1/1 (1993) 54-66. With Responses by Pheme Perkins (88-95) and David Jobling (96-110).

________. Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism: Contesting the Interpretations. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1998.

Sugirtharajah, R. S., ed. Asian Faces of Jesus. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993.

________. Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1991, New Edition 1995 [The two editions are slightly different].

________. The Postcolonial Bible. The Bible and Postcolonialism 1. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Stults, Donald Leroy. Developing an Asian Evangelical Theology. Manila: OMF Literature Inc., 1989.

Takenaka, Masao and Ron O’Grady. The Bible Through Asian Eyes. Auckland: Pace Publishing, in association with the Asian Christian Art Association, 1991. P. O. Box 15.774, Auckland 7, New Zealand. Distributed by Friendship Press, Cincinnati.

Tschuy, Theo. Ethnic Conflict and Religion: Challenge to the Churches. New York: WCC Publications.

Wilfred, Felix. “Towards a Subaltern Hermeneutics,” Voices from the Third World 19/2 (1996) 128-148. Also in Jeevadhara, but subtitled: “Beyond the Contemporary Polarities in Interpretation of Religious Traditions,” 26/151 (1996) 45-62.

Wit, Hans de, Louis Jonker, Marleen Kool, Daniel Schipani, editors. Through the Eyes of Another Intercultural Reading of the Bible. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies; Amsterdam: The Free University, 2004.

LATIN AMERICAN & HISPANIC RESOURCES

Boff, Leonardo. The Lord’s Prayer: The Prayer of Integral Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1983.

Cardenal, Ernesto. The Gospel in Solentiname. 4 volumes. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1977.

Carroll R., Mark Daniel. “The Prophetic Text and the Literature of Dissent in Latin America: Amos, Garcia Marquez, and Cabrera Infante Dismantle Militarism.” Biblical Interpretation 4 (1996) 76-100.

Carroll R., Mark Daniel. Contexts for Amos: Prophetic Poetics in Latin-American Perspective. JSOTSup 132. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, date?

Croatto, J. Servino. Exodus: A Hermeneutics of Freedom. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1981.

Gonzáles, Justo L. Santa Biblia: The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes. Abingdon, 1996.

Gutiérrez, Gustavo. A Theology of Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1973.

________. We Drink From Our Own Wells.

Miranda, José. Marx and the Bible. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1974.

________. Being and the Messiah. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1977. (Deals with the Gospel of John from a liberation perspective).

Nakanose, Shigeyuki. Josiah’s Passover: Sociology and the Liberating Bible. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993.

Pixley, Jorge. “Toward a Militant Biblical Scholarship,” Biblical Interpretation 4/1 (1996) 72-75.

Richard, Pablo. Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996?

Rowland, Christopher and Mark Corner. Liberating Exegesis: The Challenge of Liberation Theology to Biblical Studies (Biblical Foundations in Theology). London: SPCK, 1990.

Siker, Jeffrey S. “Uses of the Bible in the Theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez: Liberating Scriptures of the Poor,” Biblical Interpretation 4/1 (1996) 40-71.

Stam, Juan. “The Hermeneutics of Liberation Theology,” Bangalore Theological Forum 11/2 (1979) 122-41.

Tamez, Elsa. The Bible of the Oppressed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1982.

Vaage, Leif E., ed. Subversive Scriptures: Revolutionary Readings of the Christian Bible in Latin America. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.

AFRICAN RESOURCES

See the comprehensive bibliography by Grant LeMarquand in West and Dube, The Bible in Africa. Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Adamo, David Tuesday. “African Cultural Hermeneutics.” In R. S. Sugirtharajah, editor, Vernacular Hermeneutics. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. Pp. 66-90.

Bediako, Kwame. Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of a Non-Western Religion. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995.

Dickson, Kwesi. Theology in Africa. London: Darton, Longman and Todd; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1984.

Dube, Musa W., ed. Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Emeghara, Nkem. “The Concept of God among the Hebrews of Palestine and the Igbos of Nigeria,” Indian Theological Studies 30/4 (1993) 328-42.

Ezeogu, Ernest M., C.S.Sp. “Bible and Culture in African Christianity,” International Review of Mission LXXXVII/344 (1998) 25-38.

Getui, M., K. Holter, and V. Zinkuratire, eds. Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa. Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999. Frankfurt: Lang, 2000.

Holter, Knut. Yahweh in Africa: Essays on Africa and the Old Testament. Bible and Theology in Africa 1. New York; Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2000.

Mbiti, John S. Bible and Theology in African Christianity. Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Mosala, Itumeleng J. Biblical Hermeneutics and Black Theology in South Africa. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989.

O’Donovan, Wilbur. Biblical Christianity in African Perspective. 2nd ed. Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster, 1995.

Rowland, Christopher. “In Dialogue with Itumeleng Mosala,” JSNT (1993)

Schoonhoven, E. Jansen. “The Bible in Africa,” Exchange 9/25 (1980) 1-48.

Schreiter, Robert J., editor. Faces of Jesus in Africa. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991.

Tarr, Del. Double Image: Biblical Insights from African Proverbs. Paulist, 1994.

Ukpong, Justin. “Inculturation Hermeneutics: An African Approach to Biblical Interpretation.” In Walter Dietrich and Ulrich Luz, eds. The Bible in a World Context: An Experiment in Contextual Hermeneutics. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 2002. Pp. 17-32.

West, Gerald and Musa W. Dube, eds. “Reading With”: An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible: African Overtures. Semeia 73 (1996). This volume of Semeia includes an introduction, eleven essays, and four responses.

West, Gerald. Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation: Modes of Reading the Bible in the South African Context. Peitermaritzburg: Cluster Publications; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991.

West, Gerald and Musa W. Dube, eds. The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends. Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2001. Contains a comprehensive bibliography by Grant LeMarquand.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCES

Felder, Cain Hope, ed. Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.

Article on African American interpretation of the Bible in Stephen E. Fowl, ed. The Theological Interpretation of Scripture. Blackwell.

Smith, Theophilus H. Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Wimbush, Vincent L. African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures. New York: Continuum, 2000.

NATIVE/ABORIGINAL (NORTH AMERICAN) RESOURCES

Friesen, John W. Aboriginal Spirituality and Biblical Theology: Closer than You Think. Calgary, AB: Detselig Enterprises, 2000.

Smith, Craig Stephen. Whiteman’s Gospel. Winnipeg, MB: Indian Life Books, 1997.

Treat, James, editor. Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States and Canada. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. This book contains an extensive 8 page bibliography.

Weaver, Jace. “From I-Hermeneutics to We-Hermeneutics: Native Americans and the Post-Colonial,” Semeia 75 (1996) 153-76.

POSTCOLONIALISM AND BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION

Dube, Musa W. Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. St. Louis, MO: Chalice, 2000.

Dube, Musa W. and Jeffrey L. Staley, eds. John and Postcolonialism: Travel, Space and Power. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

Segovia, Fernando F. ed. Interpreting Beyond Borders. The Bible and Postcolonialism 3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001?.

Semeia 75 (1996) is a theme issue on “Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading.”

Sugirtharajah, R. S., ed. The Postcolonial Bible. The Bible and Postcolonialism 1. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

TRANSLATION AND CULTURE

Carson, Donald A. The Inclusive Language Debate: A Plea for Realism. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1998.

Sanneh, Lamin. Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1989.

Semeia 76 (1996) is a theme issue on “Race, Class, and the Politics of Bible Translation.”

Strauss, Mark L. Distorting Scripture? The Challenge of Bible Translation and Gender Accuracy. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1998.

CHINESE INTERPRETATION

Kay Keng Khoo. “The Tao and the Logos: Lao Tzu and the Gospel of John,” International Review of Mission LXXXVII/344 (1998) 77-84.

Lee, Archie C. C. “The Chinese Creation Myth of Nu Kua and the Biblical Narrative in Genesis 1-11,” Biblical Interpretation 2/3 (1994) 312-24.

________. “Returning to China: Biblical Interpretation in Postcolonial Hong Kong,” Biblical Interpretation 7/2 (1999) 156-73. This issue of Biblical Interpretation also includes responses to Lee’s article by Philip Chia (174-81), Kwok Pui-Lan (182-86), Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (187-91), Fernando Segovia (192-96), followed by a summary response by Lee (197-201).

Lo, Chenfang. “Chinese Biblical Interpretation in the Eyes of a Chinese Christian,” Biblical Interpretation 4 (1996) 124-26.

Pui-Lan, Kwok. “Chinese Christians and Their Bible,” Biblical Interpretation 4/1 (1996) 127-29.

Wire, Anatoinette. “Chinese Biblical Interpretation since Mid-Century,” Biblical Interpretation 4/1 (1996) 101-123.

Yeo, Khiok-Khng (K.K.). “The Rhetorical Hermeneutic of 1 Corinthians 8 and Chinese Ancestor Worship,” Biblical Interpretation 2/3 (1994) 294-311.

________. What Has Jerusalem to do with Beijing: Biblical Interpretation from a Chinese Perspective. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998.

________. Chairman Mao Meets the Apostle Paul. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2002.

PALESTINIAN INTERPRETATION

Ateek, Naim Stifan. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1989.

Ateek, Naim S., Marc H. Ellis and Rosemary Radford Ruether, editors. Faith and the Intifada: Palestinian Christian Voices. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1992. With eight responses by non-Palestinians.

Raheb, Mitri. I Am a Palestinian Christian. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

________. “Contextualising the Scripture: Towards a New Understanding of the Qur’an in Arab-Christian Perspective,” Studies in World Christianity 3/2 (1997) 180-201.

JAPANESE INTERPRETATION

Hinukawa, Hisako, “The Story of the Hemorrhaging Woman (Mark 5:25-34) Read From a Japanese Feminist Context,” Biblical Interpretation 2/3 (1994) 283-93 (

Kinukawa, Hisako. Women and Jesus in Mark: A Japanese Feminist Perspective. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994.