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"The first reference resource on how Asian Americans are currently reading and interpreting the Bible, this volume also serves a valuable role in both developing and disseminating what can be termed as Asian American biblical hermeneutics. The volume works from the important background that Asian Americans are the fastest growing ethnic/racial minority population in the USA, and that 42% of this group identifies as Christian. This provides a useful starting point from which to examine what may be distinctive about Asian American approaches to the Bible. Part 1 of the Handbook describes six major ethic groups that make up 85% of Asian population (by country of origin: China, Philippines, Indian Subcontinent, Vietnam, Korea, Japan) and outlines the specific concerns each group has when its members read the Bible. Part 2 of the Handbook examines major critical methods in biblical interpretation and suggests adjustments that may be helpful for Asian Americans to make when they are interpreting the Bible. Finally, Part 3 provides 25 interpretations by Asian American biblical scholars on specific texts in the Bible, using what they consider to be Asian American hermeneutics. Taken together the Handbook interprets the Bible both with and for the Asian American communities."--Bloomsbury Publishing Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Handbook - Uriah Y. Kim and Seung Ai Yang -- Part One Contexts -- 1 The Complex Heterogeneity of Asian American Identity - Tamara C. Ho -- 2 Familism, Racialization, and Other Key Factors Shaping Chinese American Perspectives - Russell Jeung -- 3 Filipinos in America: A Cartography of Diasporic Identities - Lester Edwin J. Ruiz -- 4 One Long Labor: Toward an Indian American Interreligious Consciousness - Jaisy A. Joseph and Khyati Y. Joshi -- 5 Of Mythologies, Wars, Exodus, and Adaptations: A Brief Account of a People Called Viet My? (Vietnamese Americans) - Mai-Anh Le Tran -- 6 The Biblical Hermeneutics: A Korean American Case - Jung Ha Kim -- 7 Japanese American Journeys of Remembrance, Identity, and Solidarity - Joanne Doi -- Part Two Methods -- 8 Historical Criticism - Mary F. Foskett -- 9 Social Science Criticism and Its Relevance for Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics - D. N. Premnath -- 10 Asian American Literary Criticism - Jin Young Choi -- 11 Critical Methods and Critiques: Theological Interpretation - Bo H. Lim -- 12 Feminist Critical Theory and Asian American Feminist Biblical Interpretation - Seung Ai Yang -- 13 Toward an Asian North American Liberationist Hermeneutics - Julius-Kei Kato -- 14 More Than an Interpretation from a Different Perspective: A Postcolonial Reading from a Different Epistemological (Back)Ground - Uriah Y. Kim -- 15 Queer Hermeneutics: Queering Asian American Identities and Biblical Interpretation - Dong Sung Kim -- Part Three Texts -- 16 The Exile of Cain and the Destiny of Humankind: Punishment and Protection - Hemchand Gossai -- 17 Women in Exodus and Asian Immigrant Women: Asian Female Immigrants' Bible Reading Strategy on Exodus 1-4 - Esther HaeJin Park -- 18 Zelophehad's Daughters as Lienü (Exemplary Women): Reading Num. 27:1-11 and 36:1-12 in the Discursive Context of Confucianism - Sonia Kwok Wong -- 19 Saul's Question and the Question of Saul: A Deconstructive Reading of the Story of Endor in 1 Sam. 28:3-25 - Suzie Park -- 20 A Heart That Listens (1 Kings 3) - Jin H. Han -- 21 Of Foreigners and Eunuchs: An Asian American Reading of Isa. 56:1-8 - Gale A. Yee -- 22 Conceptual Blending in Joel 2:1-11: God's Apocalyptic Storm-locust-warriors - Kevin Chau -- 23 Narrative of Jonah in Four Acts - Rajkumar Boaz Johnson -- 24 Reading Job as a Chinese Diasporian - Chloe Sun -- 25 Engaging Ecclesiastes Narrativally and Polyphonically with a Chinese Lens: Traditional Wisdom and "Collective Lived Experience under the Sun" in Dialogue - Barbara M. Leung Lai -- 26 Made in Babylon: Daniel 1 - John Ahn -- 27 Incising, Inscribing, and Concretizing Identity: Reading 1 Maccabees and Japanese Americans in Hawai'i - Henry W. Morisada Rietz -- 28 Filial Piety and Radical Discipleship in Matthew - Diane G. Chen -- 29 The Absent Body and Postcolonial Melancholia (Mk 14:3-9) - Jin Young Choi -- 30 Privilege and Solidarity in Asian American Context (Lk. 14:15-24) - Raj Nadella -- 31 God's Love, Christ's Cross, or Human Faith? Interpretations of Jn 3:16 in Ethnic Chinese American Churches - John Y. H. Yieh -- 32 Lost and Silenced in Translation: Reading Pauline Discourse on Language in 1 Cor. 14 from an Asian American Perspective - Ekaputra Tupamahu -- 33 "My Story" in Intersection with Gal. 3: 26-28: An Indian-Dalit Feminist Interpretation - Surekha Nelavala -- 34 Imagined Nations, Real Women: Politics of Culture and Women's Bodies. A Postcolonial, Feminist, and Indo-Western Interpretation of 1 Tim. 2:8-15 - Sharon Jacob -- 35 Always Ethnic, Never "American": Reading 1 Peter through the Lens of the "Perpetual Foreigner" Stereotype - Janette H. Ok -- 36 The Practice of Hospitality in Early Christianity: Reading 2 John and 3 John from a Vietnamese American Perspective - Toan Do -- 37 Revelation from the Margins: A Vietnamese American Perspective - vanThanh Nguy?n -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.
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