Reading the Bible from the Margins

by Miguel A. De La Torre

Overview

This introduction focuses on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible. Describing how "standard" readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or groups on the "margins," this book afters valuable new insights into biblical texts today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608333417
Publisher:	Orbis
Publication date:	11/20/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	525 KB

About the Author

Miguel A. De La Torre, a Cuban American, teaches at the Iliff School of Theology, Denver, CO. In addition to serving as president of the Society of Christian Ethics he is author of many articles and books including Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins, Liberating Jonah, and Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on Immigration.

Editorial Reviews

"This innovative resource is filled with considerable multicultural capital that can help many better understand the sad persistence of many 'great divides' in a nation that is so ready to proclaim to the world 'United We Stand!'"—Cain Hope Felder, Howard University School of Divinity

"Global in outlook, this volume highlights perspectives on the Bible from Korean Minjung to Mujerista . . . . Timely and challenging, it raises pertinent questions for mainstream biblical scholarship."—R.S. Sugirtharajah, University of Birmingham

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