Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Futures of Biblical Pasts by Roland Boer and Fernando F. Segovia
Part 1. Africa
1. Biblical Interpretation and Criticism in Neocolonial Africa: Challenges, Conceptualizations, and Needs in the Twenty-first Century by Israel Kadmuzandu
2. Beyond the "Ordinary Reader" and the "Invisible Intellectual": Pushing the Boundaries of Contextual Bible Study Discourses by Sarojini Nadar
3. Dealing (with) the Past and Future of Biblical Studies: A New South African Perspective by Jeremy Punt
Part 2. Asia
4. Unleashing the Power Within: The Bible and Dalits by Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon
5. For a Better Future in Korean Biblical Studies: Dialoguing with Myself in a Different Context by Yong-Sung Ahn
6. Biblical Studies in a Rising Asia: An Asian Perspective on the Future of the Biblical Past by Philip Chia
Part 3. Europe
7. The Future of a Nonexistent Past: Biblical Studies in Bulgaria by Milena Kirova
8. Unity and Diversity in Nordic Biblical Scholarship by Hanna Stenström
Part 4. Latin America and the Caribbean
9. Liberation in Latin American Biblical Hermeneutics by Pablo R. Andiñach
10. Paper Is Patient, History Is Not: Readings and Unreadings of the Bible in Latin America (1985-2005) by Nancy Cardoso Pereira
11. Liberating the Bible: Popular Bible Study and Its Academia Allies by Jorge Pixley
12. Biblical Studies in the Anglo-Caribbean: Past, Present, and Future Challenges, Opportunities, and Possibilities by Gosnell Yorke
Part 5. Pacific
13. Drifting Homes by Jione Havea
14. Braiding the Traditions in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Judith E. McKinlay
15. Caught in Between: Australian Biblical Studies between Asia, the Pacific, and the West by Roland Boer
Part 6. North America: Canada and the United States
16. Reading the Bible in "Our Home and Native Land": Exploring Some Margins and Migrations in Canadian Biblical Studies (through the Lens of Psalm 137) by Fiona C. Black
17. The Virtual Bible by George Aichele
18. What Has Been Done? What Can We Learn? Racial/Ethnic Minority Readings of the Bible in the United States by Tat-Siong Benny Liew
19. Changing the Paradigms: Toward a Feminist Future of the Biblical Past by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
20. Cultural Criticism: Expanding the Scope of Biblical Criticism by Fernando F. Segovia
21. Signifying on the Fetish: Mapping a New Critical Orientation by Vincent L. Wimbush
List of Contributors
Bibliography