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Meeting Program Units

2024 Annual Meeting

San Diego, California

Meeting Begins11/23/2024
Meeting Ends11/26/2024

Call for Papers Opens: 1/24/2024
Call for Papers Closes: 3/20/2024

Requirements for Participation

Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics


Program Unit Type: Seminar
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For our two open sessions, the Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics Seminar invites proposals for papers related to the following themes: Theme 1: "Indigenous, Multiethnic, and Multiracial Readings of the Bible from Asian and Asian American Contexts." Submissions may draw on various perspectives, including but not limited to Dalit readings, tribal interpretations, multi-racial and multi-ethnic viewpoints. Special consideration will be given to papers that apply these hermeneutics to their reading and interpretation of the Bible. This session will be cosponsored with the Minoritized Criticism and Biblical Interpretation unit. Theme 2: "Reading the Bible in, from, as well as to Asian and Asian American Contexts and Communities." We welcome papers that examine methodological issues involved in interpretation and hermeneutics, as well as papers that offer readings of specific texts and passages.* Both veteran and first-time presenters are encouraged to submit proposals. We will also be co-sponsoring three sessions of invited panelists: 1) A book review session on "The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary," eds. Esau McCaulley, Janette H. Ok, Osvaldo Padilla, and Amy Peeler (IVP Academic, 2024), with the Theological Interpretation of Scripture unit; 2) A book review session on "Reading in These Times: Purposes and Practices of Minoritized Biblical criticism," eds. Tat-siong Benny Liew and Fernando F. Segovia (SBL Press, 2024), with the Minoritized Criticism and Biblical Interpretation unit; and 3) A session on "Bible Translation and Decolonization in Global Contexts," with the Postcolonial Studies and Biblical Studies unit.

Program Unit Chairs

Janette H. Ok
Sharon Jacob

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