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Record Nr.

UNINA9910586701303321

Titolo

Landscapes of Korean and Korean American biblical interpretation / / edited by John Ahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, GA  : , : SBL, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

9780884143796

9781628372465

162837246X

9780884143789

0884143783

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 295 pages)

Collana

International voices in Biblical studies ; ; number 10

Disciplina

220.6

Soggetti

Korean Americans - Religion

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

United States

Korea

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : toward a methodology for Korean and Korean American biblical interpretation / John Ahn -- The case of suspected adultery (Num 5:11-31) in light of the Hittite instructions for the priests and temple officials (CTH 264) / Hannah S. An -- Divine jealousy, human zeal : self-psychology and the Kenotic spirituality of qnʼ in Numbers 25 / Hee-Kyu Heidi Park -- State, war, and women / Kyungmi Park -- A "dialogic" hero David from the perspective of "internally persuasive words" in the narrative of Samuel / SuJung Shin -- Murder, adultery, and theft / John Ahn -- Ethics of remembering : scapegoating Manasseh after the Sewol ferry tragedy / Koog-Pyoung Hong -- Half speak Ashdodite and none can speak Judean : code-switching in Ezra-Nehemiah as an identity marker for repatriate Judeans and Koreans / Roger S. Nam -- Rereading "a virtuous woman (ʼēšet hayil)" in Proverbs 31:10-31 / Sun-Ah Kang -- Job the penitent : whether and why Job repents (Job 42:6) / Paul K.-K. Cho -- An invitation for postcolonial



reading of the prophetic tradition claiming imperial powers as God's agents in the context of American colonialism in Korea / SungAe Ha -- Perils of betraying a deity : parallels between Ezekiel 16 and the Sumerian myth "Unfaithfulness" / Sehee Kim -- Crossing boundaries : Daniel's three friends meet Rev. Ki-chol Chu of colonized Korea / Hyun Chul Paul Kim -- Of great walls, DMZs, and other lines in the sand : Galatians demythologized and deconstructed / Kang-Yup Na -- Eve and Norea retold : the power of storytelling in nature of the rulers / Eunyung Lim.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of essays introduces Korean and Korean American biblical interpretation to scholars and students. The contributions reflect a range in readings, including historical, textual, feminist, sociological, theological, and postcolonial. The volume creates new inroads by bridging Korean and Korean American biblical scholarship. It seeks to be a pathfinder by establishing new grounds for fostering critical and contextual biblical scholarship by Koreans and Korean Americans.