Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology

by Gale A. Yee

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2021

Overview

Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial/ethnic population in the United States. Especially since the 1990s, readings by Asian American biblical scholars have been increasing to meet the particular theological and pastoral concerns of their Christian racial/ethnic seminarians, clergy, and churches. Gale A. Yee is one of their major interpreters, becoming the first Asian American and first woman of color president of the oldest professional guild devoted to the critical study of the Bible, the Society of Biblical Literature. This book is an anthology of her major, ground-breaking essays on Asian American theorizing and analysis of the biblical text. It is a retrospective of her growth of over almost three decades in wrestling with questions like “What is Asian American biblical hermeneutics and how does one undertake it?”

Key Features

• Disrupts traditional biblical criticism by asking new questions.
• Demonstrates twenty-first-century hermeneutics in action.
• Explores biblical interpretation from an Asian American perspective.

Praise for the Print Edition

This groundbreaking volume charts the development of a leading Asian American feminist biblical scholar’s hermeneutical journey. Each chapter disrupts traditional biblical criticism by asking new questions and opening new vistas. The book will become a standard reference for all who want to learn how identity, race, gender, sexuality, and materiality intersect in biblical interpretation from an Asian American perspective. It is a work of tremendous originality, wit, and insight.

—Kwok Pui Lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

Gale Yee is one of the premier interpreters of biblical texts and methodologies of our time. In Toward an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, we receive offerings that illustrate the evolution of both method and interpreter as she masterfully interrogates simultaneously the intersection of (con)texts, methodologies, and Asian American identity. This volume is not simply a journaling of how method changes but a demonstration of twenty-first-century hermeneutics in action.

—Frank M. Yamada, Executive Director of the Association of Theological Schools

Product Details

• Title: Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics: An Intersectional Anthology
• Author: Gale A. Yee
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 226
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781725263406, 1725263408
• Resource ID: LLS:TWRDSNNTRNTHLGY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-22T15:44:14Z

About Gale A. Yee

Gale A. Yee joined the EDS faculty in 1998, after many years at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN), as a Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Women’s Studies. Although grounded in traditional historical critical methods, she enjoys applying the newer methodologies and approaches to the study of the biblical text, such as postcolonial criticism, ideological criticism, and cultural criticism. Professor Yee also explores feminist theory and Asian American Studies to enhance her interpretations of the Bible. She is particularly active in the Society of Biblical Literature as general editor of Semeia Studies. The author of several books and articles, Professor Yee’s current book project is Class Acts: Marginalization in Ancient Israel, which investigates Israel’s lower and destitute classes: poor, widow, orphan, corvée laborer, male and female slave. She also researches the sexual depiction of Hebrew Bible women in art. Professor Yee earned her BA and MA at Loyola University of Chicago, and her PhD at University of St. Michael’s College (Toronto).