Latino/a Biblical Hermeneutics: Problematics, Objectives, Strategies (Semeia Studies Book 68)

Engage essays that are profoundly theological and resolutely social In this collection of essays, contributors seek to analyze the vision of the critical task espoused by Latino/a critics. The project explores how such critics approach their vocation as critics in the light of their identity as members of the Latino/a experience and reality. A variety of critics representing a broad spectrum of the Latino/a American formation, along various axes of identity address the question in whatever way they deem appropriate: What does it mean to be a Latino/a critic? Features: Essays from sixteen scholars Articles bring together the fields of biblical studies and racial-ethnic studies Conclusion addresses directions for future research " Introduction: Approaching Latino/a biblical criticism : a trajectory of visions and missions -- Fernando F. Segovia What does it mean to be a Latino/a biblical critic? : a Latino Pentecostal perspective, with reflections on the future -- Efrain Agosto Rethinking Latino hermeneutics : an atheist perspective -- Hector Avalos Reexamining ethnicity : Latina/os, race, and the Bible -- Eric D. Barreto Position reversal and hope for the oppressed -- Aída Besançon Spencer What does it mean to be a Latino biblical critic? : a brief essay -- Alejandro F. Botta Forgotten forebears in the history of North American biblical scholarship -- Gregory Cuellar The challenges of Latino/a biblical criticism -- Rubén R. Dupertuis Latino/a biblical hermeneutics : problematic, objectives, strategies -- Cristina García-Alfonso Reading from no place : toward a hybrid and ambivalent study of scriptures -- Jacqueline M. Hidalgo Toward Latino/a biblical studies : foregrounding identitites and transforming communities -- Francisco Lozada Jr. Toward a Latino/a vision/optic for biblical hermeneutics -- Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo A Latina biblical critic and intellectual : at the intersection of ethnicity, gender, hermeneutics, and faith -- Ahida Calderón Pilarski Interpretive world making : formulating a space for a critical Latino/a cultural and biblical discourse -- David Arturo Sánchez How did you get to be a Latino biblical scholar? : scholarly identity and biblical scholarship -- Timothy J. Sandoval El Sur También Existe : a proposal for dialogue between Latin American and Latino/a hermeneutics -- Osvaldo D. Vena Advancing Latino/a biblical criticism : visions and missions for the future -- Fernando F. Segovia Latino/a biblical interpretation : a question of being and/or practice? -- Francisco Lozada Jr. Engage essays that are profoundly theological and resolutely social In this collection of essays, contributors seek to analyze the vision of the critical task espoused by Latino/a critics. The project explores how such critics approach their vocation as critics in the light of their identity as members of the Latino/a experience and reality. A variety of criticsrepresenting a broad spectrum of the Latino/a American formation, along various axes of identityaddress the question in whatever way they deem What does it mean to be a Latino/a critic? The contributors are Efrain Agosto, Hector Avalos, Eric D. Barreto, Alejandro F. Botta, Gregory Cuellar, Rubn R. Dupertuis, Cristina Garca-Alfonso, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo, Francisco Lozada Jr., Rubn Muoz-Larrondo, Ahida Caldern Pilarski, David Arturo Snchez, Timothy J. Sandoval, Fernando F. Segovia, Aida Besanon Spencer, and Osvaldo Vena Essays from sixteen scholars Articles bring together the fields of biblical studies and racial-ethnic studies Conclusion addresses directions for future research Francisco Lozada, Jr. is Charles Fischer Catholic Associate Professor of New Testament and Latina/o Church Studies at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Fernando F. Segovia is Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee.