Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics

“This groundbreaking volume charts the development of a leading Asian American feminist biblical scholar’s hermeneutical journey. Each chapter disrupts traditional biblical criticism by asking new questions and opening new vistas. The book will become a standard reference for all who want to learn how identity, race, gender, sexuality, and materiality intersect in biblical interpretation from an Asian American perspective. It is a work of tremendous originality, wit, and insight.”


—Kwok Pui Lan, Candler School of Theology, Emory University





“Gale Yee is one of the premier interpreters of biblical texts and methodologies of our time. In Toward an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, we receive offerings that illustrate the evolution of both method and interpreter as she masterfully interrogates simultaneously the intersection of (con)texts, methodologies, and Asian American identity. This volume is not simply a journaling of how method changes but a demonstration of twenty-first-century hermeneutics in action.”


—Frank M. Yamada, Executive Director of the Association of Theological Schools