Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
PART ONE: READINGS FROM AFRICA
The Divine Name Yahweh 'Êlõhìm from an African Perspective
Temba L.J. Mafico
Biblical Interpretation and the Social Location of the Interpreter: African Women's Reading of the Bible
Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Reading from This Place: Some Problems and Prospects
Teresa Okure, S.H.C.J.
PART TWO: READINGS FROM ASIA
Pentecost and the Intifada
Naim Ateek
On John 7:53-8:11: A Well-Cherished but Much-Clouded Story
Hisako Kinukawa
Exile and Return in the Perspective of 1997
Archie C.C. Lee
Laughing at Idols: The Dark Side of Biblical Monotheism
(an Indian Reading of Isaiah 44:9-20)
George M. Soares-Prabhu
A Voice from the Margin: Reading Matthew 15:21-28
in an Australian Feminist Key
Elaine M. Wainwright
PART THREE: READINGS FROM EUROPE
Gender Hermeneutics: The Effective History of Consciousness and the Use of Social Gender in the Gospels
Lone Fatum
In This Place: The Center and the Margins in Theology
Christopher Rowland
Working for Liberation: A Change of Perspective in New Testament Scholarship
Luise Schottroff
PART FOUR: READINGS FROM LATIN AMERICA
Social Location and Biblical Interpretation: A Tropical Reading
Tereza Cavalcanti
Exegesis of Second Isaiah from the Perspective of the Oppressed: Paths for Reflection
J. Severino Croatto
Reading the Bible in the Ecclesial Base Communities of Latin America: The Meaning of Social Context
Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade
Apocalyptic and the Economy: A Reading of Revelation 18 from the Experience of Economic Exclusion
Néstor Míguez
The Hermeneutics of Liberation: A Hermeneutics of the Spirit
Pablo Richard
PART FIVE: READINGS FROM NORTH AMERICA
The Personification of Cities as Female in the Hebrew Bible: The Thesis of Aloysius Fitzgerald, F.S.C.
Peggy L. Day
Toward Intercultural Criticism: A Reading Strategy from the Diaspora
Fernando F. Segovia
When Resistance Becomes Repression: Mark 13:9-27 and the Poetics of Location
Mary Ann Tolbert
Afterwords
Christianity, Imperialism, and the Decentering of Privilege
Mary Ann Tolbert
Index of Names