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The Bible and the hermeneutics of liberation /

The Bible and the hermeneutics of liberation / edited by Alejandro F. Botta and Pablo R. Andiñach. - Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2009. - xii, 259 p. ; 23 cm. - Semeia studies ; no. 59 . - Semeia studies ; no. 59. .

Includes bibliographical references.

The Bible and the hermeneutics of liberation: worldwide trends and prospects / Pablo R. Andiñach and Alejandro F. Botta -- Liberation hermeneutics after liberation in South Africa / Gerald O. West -- "It should be burned and forgotten!" Latin American liberation hermeneutics through the eyes of another / Hans de Wit -- Liberation hermeneutics in old Europe, especially Germany / Erhard Gerstenberger -- Releasing the story of Esau from the words of Obadiah / Jione Havea -- How to hide an elephant on Fifth Avenue: universality of sin and class sin in the Hebrew scriptures / Alejandro F. Botta -- True fasting and unwilling hunger (Isaiah 58) / Mercedes L. García Bachmann -- Talitha cum hermeneutics of liberation: some African women's ways of reading the Bible / Musa W. Dube -- Paul against empire: then and now / Theodore W. Jennings Jr. -- The kingdom of God is not like you were made to believe: reading parables in the context of Germany and Western Europe / Luise Schottroff -- A mujerista hermeneutics of justice and human flourishing / Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- Liberation hermeneutics and India's Dalits / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon -- Until everyone has a place under the sun / Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan -- Liberation hermeneutics: a pastoral journey / Mortimer Arias.

9781589832411 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1589832418 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009022438


Liberation theology.
Liberty--Biblical teaching.

BT83.57 / .B53 2009

230/.0464

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