Full Description
In this volume contributors from various social locations in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia analyse and interpret Pauline letters. Engaging both the biblical text and the lives and contexts from different sociocultural, religious, methodological perspectives, each contributor demonstrates the dynamic interaction between text and context in their understanding and explanation of the text.
The first part of the volume highlights the hermeneutical focus in interpretation. That is, how a certain chosen worldview (e.g., Lutheran liturgical worldview) affects one's decision in prioritizing a certain textual dimension and level instead of others. Part Two elucidates how even a technical analysis of the text (e.g., epistolography) is context-oriented. Part Three shows how such a contemporary contextual interpretation is also an intercontextual and intertextual interpretation that entails intersectional and global-local experiences.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction - Menghun Goh, Taiwan Graduate School of Theology, Taiwan
Part I: A Hermeneutical Focus
1. "God's Work. Our Hands": A Lutheran Reading of Romans 7:15—8:13 - Amy Lindeman Allen, Christian Theological Seminary, USA
2. When Allegories Attack: Hagar and Sarah in Galatians 4:21-31 - Sid Sudiacal, Independent Scholar
3. Was Paul Happy? A Contextual Reading of Phil. 3:1—4:1 in Conversation with North American Psychology and Its Limitations - Greg Carey, Lancaster Theological Seminary, USA
Part II: A Textual Focus
4. From G'Day to Bless You: An Australian-American Reflection on Paul's "Farewells" of Philippians 3:1 and 4:4 - Bruce A. Lowe and Marshall Findlay, Reformed Theological Seminary, USA
5. The Persecutor and the Persecuted: An Interpretation of Galatians 4:30 from A Taiwanese Context - Menghun Goh, Taiwan Graduate School of Theology, Taiwan
Part III: An Intercontextual Focus
6. Paul and the Mommy Wars: Reading Paul's Maternal Metaphors in Contemporary American Context - Jennifer Houston McNeel, St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute, USA
7. Paul of Tarsus and Mary of Magdala: Virtual History, Politics of Identity, Postmodern Encounters - Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger, Independent Scholar
Bibliography
Index
