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Recommended
Books
(may not be updated; use with check)
New
Testament Greek I, II (NT613, 4) Syllabus
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N. Clayton Croy, A
Primer of Biblical Greek, Eerdmans,
1999.
Nestle-aland:
Greek New Testament W/concise Dictionary (NA27th ed.)
Walter Bauer, ed. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
and Other Early Christian Literature, Univ. of Chicago
Press. 2001.
Sakae
Kubo, Reader's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
Zondervan 1975.
Bruce Metzger, Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament
Greek. Baker Academic. 1998.
Introduction
to Biblical Studies (BS500) Syllabus
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S.
McKenzie and S. Haynes, To Each Its Own Meaning (Westminster/John
Knox, 1999)
New
Interpreter’s Study Bible, Abingdon Press
Richard
Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism, 3rd
edition. W/JKP, 2001
Daniel
Patte, ed. Global Bible Commentary, Abingdon Press
Other
books/references that might be useful for further study
Dictionary
Anchor
Bible Dictionary (6 vols.), CD-ROM.
Historical-critical method (source, form, tradition-history)
Who
Wrote the Bible? (Richard Friedman)
The
World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological, and
Political Perspectives (ed. R.E. Clements)
Reading
the Old Testament (John Barton)
Old
Testament Interpretation: Past, Present and Future (ed. James
Mays)
Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel (Wellhausen)
Form
Criticism of the Old Testament (Gene Tucker)
The
Legends of Genesis: The Biblical Saga and History (Hermann Gunkel,
2003)
Rediscovering
the Traditions of Israel (Douglas Knight)
A
History of Pentateuchal Traditions (Martin Noth)
Redaction
criticism
Four
Gospels, One Jesus? A Symbolic Reading.
Synopsys
of the Four Gospels
( English-only text)
What
is Redaction Criticism? (Norman Perrin)
History
and Theology in the Fourth Gospel (Louis Martyn)
Mark the Evangelist: Studies in the Redaction History of the
Gospel (Willi Marxen)
Four Other Gospels: Shadows on the Contours of Canon (John Dominic
Crossan)
A Theology of Q (Richard Edward)
The Theology of the Gospel according to Thomas (Bertil E. Gartner)
Social-scientific
criticism
A Home for the Homeless (John Elliott)
Sects and Society (Bryan Wilson)
Kingdom and Community (John Gager)
The
Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation (Jerome
Neyrey, ed.)
The
First Urban Christians (Wayne Meeks)
Sociology
of Early Palestinian Christianity (Gerd Theissen)
The
Social Setting of Pauline Christianity: Essays on Corinth (Paperback)
The
Social Construction of Reality (Peter Berger & Luckmann)
Community
and Gospel in Luke-Acts (Philip Esler)
Canonical
Criticism
From
Sacred Story to Sacred Text (James Sanders)
Canon
and Community (James Sanders)
Old
Testament Theology in a Canonical Context (Brevard Childs)
Introduction
to the Old Testament as Scripture (Brevard Childs)
Between
Text and Community: The "Writings" in Canonical Interpretation
(Donn F. Morgan)
Rhetorical
criticism
The Art of Rhetoric (Aristotle). Loeb Classical Library. HUP.
1926.
Rhetorical
Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah (Phyllis Trible)
Jeremiah:
A Study in Ancient Hebrew Rhetoric (Jack Lundbom)
New
Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism (George
Kennedy)
Prophecy and Persuasion (Yehoshua Gitay)
The
Dialogic Imagination (Mikhail Bakhtin)
The Diatribe and Paul's Letter to the Romans (Stanley Stowers)
Gender
and Difference in Ancient Israel (ed. Peggy Day)
A
Reading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles (Stanley Stowers)
Reading
between Texts: Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible (ed. Danna
N. Fewell)
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Michael Fishbane)
Structural
criticism
Religious
Dimensions in Biblical Texts: Greimas's Structural Semiotics
and Biblical Exegesis (Daniel Patte)
Structural
Exegesis for the New Testament Critics (Daniel Patte)
Narrative
Criticism
On
Story-Telling: Essays in Narratology (Mieke Bal)
Narrative
in the Hebrew Bible (David Dunn and Danna Fewell)
What
is Narrative Criticism? (Mark Allan Powell)
Exploring
the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation
(Vernon Robbins)
Reading
Mark, Engaging the Gospel (David Rhoads)
Reader-response
criticism
The
Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (Wolfgang Iser)
Let
the Reader Understand: Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel
of Mark (Robert Fowler)
Literary
Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge (Stephen
Moore)
Post-structural
criticism
Of
Grammatology (Jacques Derrida)
Derrida and Biblical Studies (Semeia 23, 1982)
Poststructuralist Criticism and the Bible: Text/History/Discourse
(Semeia 51, 1990).
Feminist
criticism
Discovering
Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context (Carol Meyers)
"Feminist Criticism in the Garden: Inferring Genesis 2-3,"
Semeia 41 (1988): 67-84.
Feminist
Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship (ed. Adela Y. Collins)
The
Women's Bible Commentary (eds. Carol Newsom, Sharon Ringe)
The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics. Semeia 28 (1983).
"The Effects of Women's Studies on Biblical Studies,"
Journal for the Study of Old Testament 22 (1992).
Ideological
criticism
Biblical
Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production of
Meaning (J.S. Croatto)
Decolonizing
the Biblical Studies (Fernando F. Segovia)
Post-colonial
criticism
Postcolonial
Reconfigurations: An Alternative Way of Reading the Bible and
Doing Theology
Postcolonial
Criticism and Biblical Interpretation
Voices
from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World
Return
to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible
Postcolonial
Imagination And Feminist Theology (Kwok PuiLan)
Postcolonial
Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (Musa Dube)
Introduction
to New Testament (NT501) Syllabus
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This book is one of the best introductory
textbooks focused on a literary and historical introduction
to the New Testament. Plainly written and easy-to-follow book
with various helpful summary boxes. The only weakpoint is its
lack of diversity in a theological introduction. However,
I strongly recommend this book for a historical, literary introduction
to the NT.
The
New Interpreter's Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version
With the Apocrypha (Hardcover)
Ed. Walter J. Harrelson.
Abingdon Press.
This Study Bible is a show of mainline Protestant
scholars' interpretation focused on "forensic" understanding
of salvation, evil and sin on the one hand and two-step ethical
approach (indicative to imperative; become what you are) on
the other. This study bible takes on an "objective"
reading of the text heavily drawing on historical background
and author-centerd meaning location in what typically known
as an "exegetical" mind-set. This kind of scholarship
therefore can be contrasted with Global Bible Commentary or
Women's Bible Commentary because the latter shifts to a more
readers-oriented meaning along with a more complex dimension
of meaning production.
Gerd Theissen. Fortress
Introduction to the New Testament
(Paperback)
Theissen's
Introduction to NT is quite helpful to understanding NT communities'
social location and their identity struggle within the communities
and outside of it. By and large, his view of Jesus is "wandering
Charismatic" movement in a "reforming" sense
of Judaism while his view of Paul is "love patriarchalism"
by which Pual is viewed as a social conservative. This scholar's
stance is rooted in sociological, historical understanding of
the text and the community.
The
Women's Bible Commentary - expanded (Paperback)
Eds. Carol Newsom and Sharon
Ringe. W/JKP.
The collection of women scholars' essays on
each book of the Bible gives us a tremendouns resource of women's
interpretations on the scripture, based on women's experience
and critiques on androcentric scholarship. This book is a must
companion to theological students who are studying scripture
seriously in the modern context of struggle within the church,
society and the world.
Global
Bible Commentary. Ed. Daniel Patte.
Abingdon. Read some introductory
articles on the web of GBC.
This commentary just published in 2005 is
a remarkable resource through which students are led to a diversity
of interpretive choices on the text in view of readers' social,
cultural, political, religious life contexts. Thus, this
book that deals with 66 biblical books has prominent global
scholars write each commentary. It is easy to follow and deep
in its ethical commitment and responsibility. This is a MUST
reading for all students who is concerned with interpretation
in the modern world.
Synopsys
of the Four Gospels Completely
Revised on the Basis of the Greek Text of the Nestle Aland (English-only
text) (Hardcover). by Kurt Aland (Editor). This
synopsis of the Four Gospels gives you a sense of comparative
texts in one view (with four columns). This is English-only
text with helpful textual footnotes.
The
Gospel of Matthew: Multiple Interpretations(NT607)
Syllabus |
Aune, David, ed. The
Gospel of Matthew in Current Study. Michigan: Eerdmans,
2001. [Review of scholarship]
Carter, Warren. Matthew
and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading.
New York: Orbis, 2000. [Socio-historical and marginal reading]
Davies, W. D. and D. C. Allison, Jr. Critical
and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Matthew,
Vol.1,|
2,|
3. Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1988. [literary-historical]
Patte, Daniel. The
Gospel of Matthew: A Contextual Introduction for Group Study.
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003. [Methods]
Wainwright, Elaine M. Shall
We Look for Another? A Feminist Reading of the Matthean Jesus.
New York: Orbis, 1998. [Feminist]
Senior, Donald. What
are They Saying about Matthew?
Revised version. N.Y: Paulist Press, 1996. [Review of scholarship]
--------. The
Gospel of Matthew. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.
Neyrey, Jerome H. Honor
and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew. Louisville: Westminster/John
Knox, 1998. [Social science, cultural anthropology]
Kingsbury, Jack. Matthew
as Story, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988. [Narrative]
Powell, Mark Allan. Chasing
the Eastern Star: Adventures in Biblical Reader Response Criticism.
Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2001. [Reader response]
Patte, Daniel, ed. Global
Bible Commentary. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. [Scriptural
Criticism]
Susanne Scholz. Biblical
Studies Alternatively: An Introductory Reader.
Korean
American Studies (a collection of books) |
East
to America: Korean American Life Stories Elaine Kim and
Eui-Young Yu
Changes
and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant Families in New York
Pyong Gap Min
Caught
in the Middle: Korean Merchants in America's Multiethnic Cities
The
Korean Americans: New Americans Won Moo Hurh
The
Social Origins of Korean Immigrants to the United Statesfrom
1965 to the Present In-Jin Yoon
Korean
American Women:From Tradition to Feminism Young I. Song
The
Korean Frontier in America: immigration to Hawaii 1896-1910
Wayne Patterson
Blue
Dreams Nancy Abelmann and John Lie
Bridge-Makers
and Cross-Bearers:Korean American Women and the Church.
Lost
Names:Scenes from a Korean Boyhood. Richard Kim
Korean
Preaching: An Interpretation Jung Young Lee
The
Korean Americans:The Immigrant Experience
Brian Lehrer
The
Korean American Dream Kyeyoung Park
Struggle
to Be the Sun Again Hyun Kyung Chung
Marginality:
The Key to Multicultural Theology
Jung Young Lee
RESOURCES
FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
Extensive
online theological resources
Study
aids/tools for biblical studies
Cultural
studies (postmodern) resources
Cross-cultural
hermeneutics resources
Ancient
Israel and sociopolitical analysis: short essays (Q &
A type) : moved in to my book, Biblical
Studies and Life.
Ministry
(or for ordination exams)
Bible
Content review (quick) for bible content exam purpose
PCUSA
Ordination exam tips and sample (use with caution)
Bible
study samples (actually used)
Some
reviews of books, articles
Other
material
Greek
verb chart (relational, comparative)
Brief
chart of narrative criticism
Kenotic
story?
Study
guides and strategies (very extensive resource from reading
to writing)
Citing
sources (The Chicago Manual of style) or extensive
information
How
to read academic texts critically
Reading
Your Textbooks Effectively and Efficiently
How
to pillage a journal article?
Academic
discussion guidelines
Academic
skills center
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