“Non-Euro-American/Traditional” Sources for New Testament Studies

A Select more inclusive bibliography-draft version (January, 2002)

Third world and other marginalized voices tend not to distinguish sharply between biblical and theological readings and practical application (praxis), let alone classically separate Old and New Testaments, although many scholars have Euro-American theological educations. The occasional North America voice speaking for Third World perspectives and males speaking favorable on feminist hermeneutics have also been included below as a bibliographic resource. The list cites major players and sources and recurrent points of entry into this diverse area-recent and present. There are also published scholars from non-Euro-American backgrounds, or of minority status (female and male), whose works on standard NT topics are equally accessible and inclusively listed in such bibliographies as Discovering Latino Religion: a comprehensive Social Science bibliography--Ref Z7757.U5 D57 1995; The Bible and Modern Literary Criticism-Ref Z770 .P68 1992 and Literary-Critical Approaches to the Bible: an annotated bibliography-Ref Z770 .M66 1992. Other useful locales for further bibliographic retrieval is New Testament Abstracts, [General, and Literary Forms/Techniques & Methods of Study sections] and Elenchus of Biblica, especially the sections under Introductio: Hermeneutica; and Interpretatio humanistica and Femina, familia, for similar alternate voices specifically on New Testament. The Library covets more citations for this on-going bibliographic quest and requests additional findings to be sent along to ref-desk@CTSnet.edu.

GENERAL

WOMEN'S STUDIES

ASIAN

AFRICAN & AFRO-AMERICAN

LATIN AMERICAN

NATIVE AMERICAN

GENERAL SOURCES asterisk (*) &/or call numbers indicate holdings at JBC Library.

Brett, Mark G, Ethnicity and the Bible : [bibliogs, color pl, diags, indexes]: Leiden : E J Brill, 1996

Escobar, Samuel E. The kingdom and the third church, Wilmore, KY: Asbury

Theological Seminary, 1990 (sound cassette)

Harrington, Daniel J. “Some new voices in New Testament interpretation : [bibliog]” Anglican

Theological Review 64 (Jl 1982), p. 362-370

Hartin, P. J. Third World challenges in the teaching of biblical studies Claremont, CA:

Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 1992

*Kwok, Pui-lan Discovering the Bible in the non-biblical world Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis

Books, 1995. BS521.4 .K96 1995

*Post Colonialism and Scriptural Reading, Laura E. Donaldson and R. S. Sugirtharajah

(eds.) Semeia 75; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.

Reading from this place: I. Social location and Biblical interpretation in the United

States. Fernando F. Segovia and Mary Ann Tolbert (eds.) Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.

Shaver, Kenny Reading the Bible through Third World eyes . Abilene, Tex.: Abilene

Christian University Tape Service, 1990

*Voices from the margin: interpreting the Bible in the Third world. R.S. Sugirtharajah (ed). Maryknoll, NY: Orbis

Books, 1995. (The 1991 edition has a few different essays of note). BS476 .V65 1995

West, Gerald O. The academy of the poor: towards a dialogical reading of the Bible.

Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999

West, Gerald O. “Finding a Place among the Posts for Post-Colonial Criticism in

Biblical Studies in South Africa,” Old Testament Essays (South Africa) 10 (1997), 322-42.

WOMEN’S FOCUS

*Biblical Glamour and Hollywood Glitz, Alice Bach (ed.) Semeia, 74; Atlanta: Scholars

Press, 1996.

*Collins, Adela Yarbro. “New Testament perspectives : the Gospel of John [feminist critique]” Journal

for the Study of the Old Testament No 22 (1982), p. 47-53

A Feminist Companion to reading the Bible: approaches, methods and strategies,

Athalya Brenner and Carole Fontaine (eds.), Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

*Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler. “Feminist theology and New Testament interpretation” Journal for the

Study of the Old Testament No 22 (1982), p. 32-46

*_______________________. In memory of her, a feminist theological reconstruction of Christian

origins, [2 review articles]West, Cornel.; Kraemer, Ross S. Religious Studies Review 11 (Ja 1985), p.
1-4,6-9

*_______________________. “Justified by all her children : struggle, memory, and vision” On the

threshold of the third millennium P. Hillyer, ed. {Philadelphia : Trinity Press International, 1990}p. 19-38
BX880 .O5 1990

Flanagan, Neal M.; Snyder, Edwina H. “Did Paul put down women in First Corinthians 14:34-36 :

[bibliog]” Foundations 24 (Jl-S 1981), p. 216-220

*Green, Joel B, Hearing the New Testament : strategies for interpretation [bibliogs, diags, indexes,

repr] Grand Rapids : Carlisle, Eng : Eerdmans, Paternoster Pr, 1995 ; 1995.
BS2331 .H43 1995

*Inheriting our mothers' gardens feminist theology in Third World perspective edited by

Letty M. Russell ... [et al.]. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988. BT704 .I64
1988

*Jennings, Theodore W, Text and logos : the humanistic interpretation of the New Testament [bibliogs,

diags, repr] Atlanta : Scholars Pr, 1990. BS2361.2 .T45 1990

Küng, Hans,; Moltmann, Jürgen, Conflicting ways of interpreting the Bible :

[Mark 6:45-52 is example used throughout] New York : Seabury Pr, 1980.

*Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America,

Phyllis A. Bird, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld & Sharon H. Ringe (eds.) Semeia, 78;
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

* Ringe, Sharon H.”Luke 9:28-36 : the beginning of an exodus” Semeia No 28 (1983), p. 83-99

_______________. “A Gentile woman's story” Feminist interpretation of the Bible. Letty Russell, ed.

{Philadelphia, Pa : Westminster Pr, 1985}p. 65-72 BS680.W7 F46 1985

Seim, Turid Karlsen. “Roles of women in the Gospel of John” Aspects on the Johannine literature

{[Uppsala] : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1987}p. 56-73

Tamez, Elsa “Reading the Bible from the eyes of the poor: for women, it's not enough

[fr With passion and compassion: Third World women doing theology],” Other Side 24:24-25 Jl-Ag 1988

*­_________. “Women's rereading of the Bible;” tr by A Partnoy. With passion and

compassion: Third World women doing theology: reflections from the Women's Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians.; ed by V Fabella and M Oduyoye, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1988, 173-180. BV639.W7 I58 1986

*_________. “The women who complicated the history of salvation [tr B Yeager;

repr],” New eyes for reading: biblical and theological reflections by women from the Third World; ed by J Pobee and B Wartenberg-Potter, Oak Park, IL: Meyer Stone Books, 1987, 5-17.BV639.W7 N49 1987

Thériault, Jean Y. “La femme chrétienne dans les textes pauliniens”Science et Esprit 37 (O-D 1985), p.

297-317

* Tolbert, Mary A. ”Defining the problem : the Bible and feminist hermeneutics” Semeia No 28

(1983), p. 113-126

*Women's sacred scriptures edited by Kwok Pui-Lan and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.

London: SCM Press ; Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1998. BT83.55 .W65 1998

LATIN AMERICA

Agosto, Efraín. Social Analysis of the New Testament and Hispanic Theology : A Case Study, Journal

of Hispanic/Latino Theology 5 (My 1998), p. 6-29

*Boff, Clodovis. “Hermeneutics : constitution of theological pertinency [repr]” Voices from the margin

{Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, 1991}p. 9-35 BS476 .V65 1991

*Brown, Robert McAfee Unexpected news: reading the Bible with Third World eyes.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, c1984 BS511.2 .B77 1984

*Cardenal, Ernesto. The Gospel in Solentiname; translated by Donald D. Walsh.

Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1976-c1982. BS2555.2 .C27713 1976

*Croatto, J. Severino. Biblical hermeneutics: toward a theory of reading as the production of

meaning; translated from the Spanish by Robert R. Barr. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1987.
BS476 .C7613 1987

Discovering Latino Religion: a comprehensive Social Science bibliography, Anthony M.

Stevens-Arroyo with Segundo Pantoja (eds.). New York: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 1995. [the sections on Theological and Related Publications and Theses and Dissertations may be scanned for items specific to Old Testament studies.]
Ref Z7757.U5 D57 1995

Johnson, Bo. Något om bibelanvändningen i latinamerikansk befrielseteologi : [bibliog] Svensk

Teologisk Kvartalskrift 60 No 2 (1984), p. 64-70

*Miranda, José Porfirio. Communism in the Bible; translated from the Spanish by Robert

R. Barr. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1982. BS670 .M551

*________________. Marx against the Marxists: the Christian humanism of Karl Marx;

translated from the Spanish by John Drury. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1980. HX536 .M5413

*________________. Being and the Messiah: the message of St. John; translated by

John Eagleson Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1977. BS2601 .M5413

Orbe, Antonio. “El hijo del hombre come y bebe (Mt 11:19, Lc 7:34)” Gregorianum 58 No 3

(1977), p. 523-555 204

Pietrantonio, Ricardo. “Esta la justicia enraizada en el NT” : [outlines; bibliog] Revista Bíblica 48 No

2 (1986), p. 89-119

*Pixley, George V. and Boff, Clodovis. The Bible, the church, and the poor ; translated

from the Spanish and Portuguese by Paul Burns. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1989. BV639.P6 P5413 1989

Tamez, Elsa. Bible of the oppressed /; translated from the Spanish by Matthew J. O'Connell.

Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1982. BS670 .T2613

NATIVE AMERICAN

LeBar, Martin “A biblical perspective on nonhuman organisms,” Religion and

environmental crisis, Eugene C Hargrove. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Reed, Gerard “A native American environmental ethic,” Religion and environmental

crisis, Eugene C Hargrove. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

A Peelman, “The Native American Christ,” in The myriad Christ : plurality and the quest for

unity in contemporary christology. Merrigan, Terrence.; Haers, Jacques. , ed. Leuven : University Press ; Sterling, Va. : Uitgeverij Peeters, 2000.

AFRICAN & African American

*African American religious studies : an interdisciplinary anthology [contains reprs; bibliog, index] Wilmore, Gayraud S, ; ed. Durham, NC : Duke Univ Pr, 1989. BR563.N4 A36 1989

[Especially]: General introduction.
The development of Black religion in America, C Lincoln.
Three thousand years of biblical interpretation with reference to Black peoples, C Copher.
Black experience and the Bible, R Bennett.
Biblical historical study as liberation: toward an Afro-Christian hermeneutic, V Wimbush.
The Bible, re-contextualization and the Black religious experience, C Felder.
Womanist theology: Black women's experience as a source for doing theology, with special

reference to christology, J Grant.

Baldwin, Lewis V. "Deliverance to the captives: images of Jesus Christ in the minds of Afro-American

slaves, ” Journal of Religious Studies 12 No 2 (1986), p. 27-45

*Bennett, Robert A. “Black experience and the Bible” Theology Today 27 (Ja 1971), p. 422-433

The Bible in African Christianity: essays in Biblical theology, Nairobi: Acton, 1997.

Combrink, H J Bernard. “The changing scene of biblical interpretation : [bibliog; essay]” South

African perspective on the New Testament, A {Leiden : E J Brill, 1986}p. 9-17

*Copher, C. B. “3,000 Years of Biblical Interpretation with Reference to Black Peoples,”

The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 13(2, Spring 1986), 225-46.

*Deist, F. E. “The Bible in discussion: Three recent South African publications on

Scripture, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 47, 4 (1991), 930-949.
[while our select bibliography bypasses most South African scholarship as covertly European in influence and traditional of topic, this piece promises to treat “Biblical hermeneutics and Black theology in South Africa.” Otherwise, the South African Theological Bibliography series may be consulted for listings of indigenous NT studies. REF Z7757 .S6 S68]

*Felder, Cain H, ed.[The Bible in Black religious experience, thematic issue]

Journal of Religious Thought 42 No 2 (Fall-Wint 1985-1986), p. 5-55
Biblical-historical study as liberation: toward an Afro-Christian hermeneutic,
by V L Wimbush.
Teaching the New Testament in an African context, by J S Pobee.
The English Bible in Jamaican Rastafarianism, by L A Breiner.
Sociology of Afro-American religion: an appraisal of C Eric Lincoln's contributions,
by H D Trulear.]

*_____________, ed.[Afrocentrism and African American religious experience, J Rel Thot 50th

anniv issue] Journal of Religious Thought 50 (Fall-Spr 1993-1994).
[Afrocentricity and Theological Education, by C. Sanders.
Afrocentrism, the Bible, and the Politics of Difference, by C Felder.
Ecumenical Dialogue and Divine Racism, by K Davis.
"Betwixt and Between" Afrocentrism and Neoorthodoxy: A Simple Call to Freedom,
by J Young.
Religion and Politics: Do Black Churches Impermissibly Mix Them?, by J Baugh.

_____________________*Stony the road we trod : African American biblical interpretation [index]

Felder, Cain H, ; ed. Minneapolis : Fortress Pr, 1991. BS511.2 .S84 1991
especially:
Introduction, C Felder.
Interpreting biblical scholarship for the Black church tradition, T Hoyt, Jr.
The hermeneutical dilemma of the African American biblical student, W Myers.
Reading her way through the struggle: African American women and the Bible, R Weems.
The Bible and African Americans: an outline of an interpretative history, V Wimbush.
"An ante-bellum sermon": a resource for an African-American hermeneutic, D Shannon.
Race, racism, and the biblical narratives, C Felder. J Waters.
TheHaustafeln (household codes) in African American biblical interpretation: "free slaves" and
"subordinate women", C Martin.
An African American appraisal of the Philemon-Paul-Onesimus triangle, L Lewis.

Grant, Jacquelyn. The Womanist Jesus and the mutual struggle for liberation Recovery of Black

presence, Nashville : Abingdon Pr, 1995

*_____________. White women’s Christ and Black women’s Jesus : feminist Christology and

womanist response Atlanta Ga. : Scholars Press, 1989. BT198 .G67 1989

*Jackson, Rogers W. The future of the Fourth Gospel : [African-American context]

Currents in Theology and Mission 19 (Ag 1992), p. 277-280

*Kahl, Werner Überlegungen zu einer Interkulturellen Verständigung über Neutestamentliche Wunder:

[Eng abst, pp 105-106] Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 82, no 2 (1998), p. 98-106

*King, Fergus “Across the Great Divide : Higher Criticism, The Writers of the New Testament, and

African Biblical Interpretation [bibliog]” Mission Studies 15, no 2 (1998), p. 13-28

*Manus, Chris Ukachukwu. “The Areopagus speech (Acts 17:16-34) : a study of Luke's approach to

evangelism and its significance in the African context” Africa Theological Journal 14 No 1 (1985), p. 3-18

*Martin, Clarice J. “Womanist interpretations of the New Testament : the quest for holistic and

inclusive translation and interpretation” [replies, pp 63-85] Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6 (Fall 1990), p. 41-61

*Mason, William. “Hermeneutics and the Black experience” Reformed Review 23 (Sum 1970),

p. 217,224-234

Muhammad, Alfred. "It's not just a Christian thing!" African Americans and the Bible New

York : Continuum, 2000

Muutuki, Joseph Workshop in Stellenbosch, May 1999: [Old and New Testament

Studies in Africa: Learning from the past and planning for the future]. Newsletter on African Old Testament Scholarship no 7 (1999), 6-7

Olupona, Jacob K. Sacred cosmos: an ethnography of African indigenous religious traditions

African Americans and the Bible New York : Continuum, 2000

Onwu, N. “The distorted vision : reinterpretation of Mark 8:22-26 in the context of social justice” West

African Religion 19 No 1-2 (1980), p. 46-52

Petzer, Kobus J H,; Hartin, Patrick J, A South African perspective on the New Testament essays by S

African NT scholars presented to Bruce M Metzger [por; bibliog] Leiden : E J Brill, 1986.

*‘"Reading With": An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary

Readings of the Bible: African Overtures’ Semeia no 73 (1996), 1-284

Shuuya, Iipinge K. “The encounter between the New Testament and African traditional concepts”

Relevant theology for Africa {Durban, Natal : Lutheran Pub House, 1973}p. 47-54

D Stinton. “Jesus of Africa: voices of contemporary African christology,” in The myriad Christ:

plurality and the quest for unity in contemporary christology. Merrigan, Terrence.; Haers, Jacques. , ed. Leuven : University Press ; Sterling, Va. : Uitgeverij Peeters, 2000.

*Weems, Renita J. “Struggling her way : [African-American women and the Bible]” Other Side

27 (S-O 1991), p. 56-62

*Wimbush, Vincent L. “Historical/cultural criticism as liberation: a proposal for an African

American biblical hermenutic,” Semeia no 47 (1989), p. 43-55

_____________________., Paul, the worldly ascetic : response to the world and self-

understanding according to 1 Corinthians 7. Macon, GA : Mercer University Press, c1987 BS2655.A65 W56 1987

ASIAN

Abesamis, Carlos H. “A third look at Jesus and salvation : a Bible study on Mark 1:14-15”

Asian Christian spirituality {Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, 1992}p. 134-141

Articles of Asian Contextual Theology II.: The Asian Context and Biblical hermeneutics,

Archie C. C. Lee, (ed.), Chinese Christian Literature Council, Kowloon, Hong Kong: 1996.

Balchin, Frank. “Recent trends in New Testament interpretation” South East Asia Journal of Theology

1 (Jl 1959), p. 31-44

Bautista, Lorenzo.; Garcia, Hidalgo B.; Wan, Sze-Kar. “The Asian way of thinking in

theology: [exegesis of Col 1-2 as example; powers and principalities]” Evangelical Review of Theology 6 No 1 (Ap 1982), p. 37-49

*Caldwell, Larry W. Asia “Third horizon Ethnohermeneutics : re-evaluating NT hermeneutical models

for intercultural Bible interpreters today” [figs; bibliog] Journal of Theology 1 (O 1987), p.
314-333

Christianity in China: a scholars’ guide to resources in the libraries and archives of the United States.

A. R. Crouch, S. Agoratus, A. Emerson & D. Soled, eds. London & Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1989. REF Z7757.C6 C46 1989
[especially, cf. the dissertation section]

*“Commitment, Context and Text: Examples of Asian Hermeneutics,” R S Sugirtharajah,

ed. Biblical Interpretation 2:251-376 N 1994

Derrett, John Duncan Martin “The friend at midnight : Asian ideas in the Gospel of St Luke.”

Donum Gentilicium {Oxford : Clarendon Pr, 1978}p. 78-87

*Hyun, Younghak “Cripple's dance [Korea],” East Asia Journal of Theology 3 No 2:209-212, 1985

Kim, Chan-Hie. “Reading the Cornelius story from an Asian immigrant perspective,” Reading

from this place, vol 1 {Minneapolis : Fortress Pr, 1995}p. 165-174

Kim, Jean K. “An Asian interpretation of Philippians 2:6-11,” Escaping Eden {Sheffield, Eng :

Sheffield Acad Pr, 1998}p. 104-122

Kim, Yung Bok “Minjung social biography and theology [stories of the powerless

people, Korea; 2 stories]” Ching Feng 28 No 4:221-231 D 1985

*Koyama, Kosuke “The role of theology in Asia today” Indian Journal of Theology 17

suppl:1-22 1968

*Kwok, Pui-lan, Discovering the Bible in the non-biblical world. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis

Books, 1995. BS521.4 .K96 1995

Lim, Yeu Chuen. “Acts 10 : A Gentile Model for Pentecostal Experience [table],”

Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 1, no 1 (Ja 1998), p. 62-72

* Moon, Cyris Hee-Suk (Mun Hui-sok), “Culture in the Bible and the culture of the Minjung,”

Ecumenical Review 39:180-186 Ap 1987

Moon, Won W. Development of guiding principles for preparation of effective Bible

study materials for Korean Christians 133pp [Dissertation: Project (D. Miss.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School], 1990.

Park, Joon Surh The 8th General, the North East Asia Association of Theological

Schools, October 4-6, 1990, Allen Hall, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Corp North East Asia Association of Theological Schools. General Assembly. (8th: 1990) Seoul, Korea. Seoul, Korea: The Association, 1990

_____________ & Eto, Naozumi. Theology and theological education in Asia: today and

tomorrow: the 25th anniversary theological symposium of NEAATS, June 18-20, 1992, Kansai Seminar House, Kyoto, Japan. Seoul: North East Asia Association of Theological Schools, 1992, especially:

Perkins, Harvey L. “Four Bible studies on development in the Asian context,” South East Asia

Journal of Theology 21 No 1 (1980), p. 78-110 62

Samson, Antonio S. Towards indigenization of religious forms: proceedings of the 1986

workshop Conference Towards Indigenization of Religious Forms (1986: Ateneo de Manila University, Phillippines). Manila, Philippines: Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia, 1986

Sugirtharajah, R S (Rasiah S.) “Imperial Critical Commentaries: Christian Discourse and

Commentarial Writings in Colonial India” Journal for the Study of the New Testament no 73:83-112 Mr 1999

­_______________. Postcolonial Perspectives on the New Testament and its Interpretation” Journal

for the Study of the New Testament no 73:3-135 Mr 1999

_______________. “Texts are Always with You: Christians and their Bibles” Hindu-Christian

Studies Bulletin 9:8-13 1996

*_______________. Asian biblical hermeneutics and postcolonialism: contesting the interpretations.

Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1998. BS476 .S84 1998

___________________, Reading the Bible in the global village: Helsinki / Atlanta: Society of Biblical

Literature, 2000

*_________________, “A Brief Memorandum on Postcolonialism and Biblical Studies”

Journal for the Study of the New Testament no 73:3-5 Mr 1999

_________________, “Texts are Always with You: Christians and their Bibles” Hindu-

Christian Studies Bulletin 9:8-13 1996.

_________________, “Orientalism, ethnonationalism and transnationalism: shifting

identities and biblical interpretation [bibliog]” Ethnicity and the Bible; ed by M Brett, 419-429

*_________________, “The Bible and Its Asian Readers [adapted fr paper presented at SBL, Kansas

City,” N 1991; replies P Perkins, pp 88-95, D Jobling, pp 96-110] Biblical Interpretation 1:54-
66 F 1993

*The postcolonial Bible edited by R.S. Sugirtharajah. Sheffield, Eng.: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998

BS476 .P678 1998

Tachau, Peter “Bible study - basis or stumbling-block : observations in Philippine theological

seminaries.” South East Asia Journal of Theology 16 No 1 (1975), p. 13-22

*Wingeier, Douglas E. “ Tapping the rock: a model for ministry” Asia Journal of Theology 3:558-563

O 1989

*Yeo, Khiok-Khng. What has Jerusalem to do with Beijing? Biblical Interpretation from a

Chinese Perspective. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998.

Yieh, John Y H. “Cultural reading of the Bible : some Chinese Christian cases,” Text &

experience {Sheffield, Eng : Sheffield Academic Pr, 1995}p. 122-153