The Global Bible Commentary invites its users to expand their
horizon by reading the Bible with scholars from all over the
world and from different religious persuasions. These scholars
have approaches and concerns that often are poles apart. Yet
they share two basic convictions: biblical interpretation always
matters; and reading the Bible “with others” is highly
rewarding.
Each of the short commentaries of the Global Bible Commentary is
a readily accessible guide for reading a biblical book. Written
for undergraduate and seminary students and their teachers, as
well as for pastors, priests, and Adult Sunday School classes, it
introduces the users to the main features of the biblical book
and its content.
Yet each short commentary does more. It also brings us a
precious gift, namely the rtunity of reading this biblical
book as if for the first time. By making explicit the specific
context and the concerns from which she/he reads the Bible, the
scholar points out to us the significance of aspects of the
biblical text that we simply took for granted or overlooked.
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If any book demonstrates the value of cultural criticism and the
importance of particularity in interpretation, this is it!
Scholars from diverse social locations in every continent bring
their distinctive context to bear on the act of interpreting. In
so doing, they shed eye-opening light on the biblical texts. The
resulting critical dialogue with the Bible exposes the oppressive
as well as the liberating dynamics of the texts while at the same
time showing how the Bible might address the social, political,
cultural, and economic dynamics of our world today. This
collection can change the way you read the Bible―scholars and
students, clergy and laity alike.
-David Rhoads, Professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of
Theology, Chicago, IL
Contributors:
Daniel Patte, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. A French Huguenot
(Église Réformée de France), he taught two years in
Congo-Brazzaville, and “read the Bible with” people in France,
Switzerland, South Africa, Botswana, the Philippines, as well as
in the USA. His publications include books on hermeneutics and
semiotics (such as Early Jewish Hermeneutics, 1975; The
Religious Dimensions of Biblical Texts, 1990); on Paul and
Matthew (such as Paul's Faith and the Power of the Gospel, 1983;
The Gospel according to Matthew: A Structural Commentary on
Matthew's Faith, 1987), as well as, most directly related to the
GBC, Ethics of Biblical Interpretation (1995), The Challenge of
Discipleship (1999), Reading Israel in Romans: Legitimacy and
Plausibility of Divergent Interpretations (ed. with Cristina
Grenholm, 2000), The Gospel of Matthew: A Contextual Introduction
(with Monya Stubbs, Justin Ukpong, and Revelation Velunta, 2003).
José Severino Croatto,. Professor of Exegesis, Hebrew, and
Religious Studies, at Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios
Teológicos (ISEDET). A contributor to Revista de Interpretación
Bíblica Latinoamericana (= RIBLA) and the Movement of Popular
Reading of the Bible, he published 22 books, including three
volumes on hermeneutics, Exodus, A Hermeneutics of Freedom
(1981); Biblical Hermeneutics. Toward a Theory of Reading as the
Production of Meaning (1987); Hermenéutica Práctica. Los
principios de la hermenéutica bíblica en ejemplos (2002); three
volumes on Génesis 1-11 (1974; 1986; 1997), the last one, Exilio
y sobrevivencia. Tradiciones contraculturales en el Pentateuco;
three volumes on the book of Isaiah (1988; 1994; 2001), the last
one, Imaginar el futuro. Estructura retórica y querigma del
Tercer Isaías (Isaías 56-66); two volumes on Religious Studies
(1994; 2002), the last one, Experiencia de lo sagrado y
tradiciones religiosas. Estudio de fenomenología de la religión
(2002).
Rev. Dr. Nicole Wilkinson Duran, after teaching New Testament
in the USA, South Africa (Zululand), in Turkey, is currently
teaching part-time at Rosemont College and Villanova University,
and with her husband raising twin sons in the suburbs of
Philadelphia, PA. She has published articles on topics ranging
from gender and race in Esther, to the unread Bible in Toni
Morrison’s novels, to body symbolism in the story of John the
Baptist’s execution, and edited (with G. Phillips) Reading
Communities Reading Scripture (2002). She is an ordained
Presbyterian minister and does occasional preaching and adult
Christian education.
Teresa Okure, SHCJ, a graduate from the University of Ibadan,
La Sorbonne, École Biblique of Jerusalem, and Fordham University
(Ph.D.), is Professor of New Testament and Gender Hermeneutics at
the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
She is or has been a member of the executive committees of
several associations, including EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of
Third World Theologians, as Executive Secretary), the
International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS), and the
Society for New Testament Studies (SNTS). She published more
than 100 articles and six books including The Johannine Approach
to Mission: a Contextual Study of John 4:1-42 (1988), ed.
Evaluating the Inculturation of Christianity in Africa (1990)
and ed. To Cast Fire upon the Earth: Bible and Mission.
Collaborating in Today’s Multicultural Global Context (2000).
Archie Chi_Chung Lee, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Department of
Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong. A spet of cross-textual hermeneutics, especially
Chinese text and the post-exilic biblical tradition. He is the
author of several books including A Commentary on the Book of
Koheleth, (in Chinese 1990), Doing Theology with Asian
Resources: Ten Years in the Formation of Living Theology in Asia
(1993, ed.) and Interpretation of the Megilloth (in Chinese
2003) and numerous articles including "Genesis One and the
Plagues Tradition in Ps. 105," Vetus Testamentum, 40, (1990):
257-263, "Biblical Interpretation in Asian Perspective," Asia
Journal of Theology, 7, (1993): 35-39, "The Chinese Creation Myth
of Nu Kua and the Biblical Narrative in Genesis 1-11," Biblical
Interpretation 2 (1994): 312-324, "Cross-Textual Hermeneutics on
Gospel and Culture". Asia Journal of Theology 10 (1996): 38-48
and "Biblical Interpretation of the Return in the Postcolonial
Hong Kong," Biblical Interpretation, 9 (1999): 164-173.