Readings from the edges
Subtitle: the Bible and people on the move
By: Jean-Pierre Ruiz
Series: Studies in Latino/a Catholicism; Studies in Latino/a Catholicism
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Maryknoll, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781570759444
Subjects: Doctrines; Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Theology; Emigration and immigration; Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Good fences and good neighbors? : biblical scholars and theologians; title: The Bible and liberation : between the preferential option for the poor and the hermeneutical privilege of the poor; title: Latino/a biblical studies as public theology and the case of U.S. immigration reform; title: Abram and Sarai cross the border : a reading of Genesis 12:10-20; title: Symbolism on the street : reading prophecy as performance in Ezekiel 12:1-16; title: An exile's baggage : a postcolonial reading of Ezekiel 20; title: "They could not speak the language of Judah" : rereading Nehemiah 13 between Brooklyn and Jerusalem; title: The view from Northern Boulevard : reading Matthew's parable of the day laborers; title: The Bible and the exegesis of empire : reading Christopher Columbus's El libro de las profecias.