Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Pedagogical Discourse and Practices in Contemporary Biblical Criticism

Fernando F. Segovia

PART I Biblical Interpretation and Theological Education

1. Theological Education in a New Context: Reflections from the Perspective of Brazilian Theology

Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade

2. Constructive Theology and Biblical Worlds

Peter C. Hodgson

3. Globalization in Theological Education

Joseph C. Hough, Jr.

4. Jesus/the Native: Biblical Studies from a Postcolonial Perspective

Kwok Pui-lan

5. Four Faces of Theology: Four Johannine Conversations

Jean-Pierre Ruiz

PART II Social Location and Biblical Pedagogy in the United States

6. Crossing the Line: Three Scenes of Divine-Human Engagement in the Hebrew Bible

Francisco Garcia-Treto

7. Reading from an Indigenous Place

Mark Lewis Taylor

8. Pedagogical Discourse and Practices in Cultural Studies: Toward a Contextual Biblical Pedagogy

Fernando F. Segovia

9. A New Teaching with Authority: A Re-evaluation of the Authority of the Bible

Mary Ann Tolbert

10. A Meeting of Worlds: African Americans and the Bible

Vincent L. Wimbush

PART III Social Location and Biblical Pedagogy in Global Perspective

11. A Reading of the Story of the Tower of Babel from the Perspective of Non-Identity: Gen 11:1-9 in the Context of Its Production

J. Severino Croatto

12. "Go Therefore and Make Disciples of All Nations" (Matt 28:19a): A Postcolonial Perspective on Biblical Criticism and Pedagogy

Musa W. Dube

13. Cross-Textual Interpretation and Its Implications for Biblical Studies

Archie C. C. Lee

14. Biblical Exegesis and Its Shortcomings in Theological Education

Temba L. J. Mafico

15. The Hermeneutics of Liberation: Theoretical Grounding for the Communitarian Reading of the Bible

Pablo Richard

16. Biblical Studies in India: From Imperialistic Scholarship to Postcolonial Interpretation

R. S. Sugirtharajah

PART IV Biblical Interpretation: Pedagogical Practices

17. A Rhetorical Paradigm for Pedagogy

Rebecca S. Chopp

18. Reading the Bible in the Global Context: Issues in Methodology and Pedagogy

Denise Dombkowski Hopkins

Sharon H. Ringe

Frederick C. Tiffany

19. Crossing Borders: Biblical Studies in a Trans-Cultural World

Kathleen M. O'Connor

20. Weaving a New Web of Creative Remembering

Elaine M. Wainwright

21. Lessons for North America from a Third-World Seminary

Antoinette Clark Wire

Contributors

Index