Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament

Edited by Osvaldo D. Vena and Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz - Foreword by Fernando F. Segovia - Contributions by Efraín Agosto; Mariano Avila; Alejandro F. Botta; Renata Furst; Awilda González; Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz; Aída Besançon Spencer; Corinna Y. Guerrero; Jacqueline M. Hidalgo; Eric D. Barreto; Ediberto López-Rodríguez; Francisco Lozada Jr.; Roberto Mata; Néstor Oscar Míguez; Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo; Alvin Padilla; Luis R. Rivera; Rudolph D. González; Gilberto A. Ruiz; Elsa Tamez; Nancy Elizabeth Bedford; Osvaldo D. Vena and Manuel Villalobos Mendoza

Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each chapter examines one of the twenty-seven documents thematically instead of following the traditional verse-by-verse commentary format.

Lexington Books / Fortress Academic

Pages: 514 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-9787-0510-4 • Hardback • March 2022 • $153.00 • (£119.00)

978-1-9787-0512-8 • Paperback • February 2024 • $49.99 • (£38.00)

978-1-9787-0511-1 • eBook • March 2022 • $47.50 • (£37.00)

Subjects: Religion / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics, Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, Religion / Theology

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Summary

Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each chapter examines one of the twenty-seven documents thematically instead of following the traditional verse-by-verse commentary format.

Details

Lexington Books / Fortress Academic

Pages: 514 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-9787-0510-4 • Hardback • March 2022 • $153.00 • (£119.00)

978-1-9787-0512-8 • Paperback • February 2024 • $49.99 • (£38.00)

978-1-9787-0511-1 • eBook • March 2022 • $47.50 • (£37.00)

Subjects: Religion / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics, Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, Religion / Theology

Author

Osvaldo D. Vena is emeritus professor of New Testament interpretation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz is associate professor of Christian Scriptures/New Testament at Seattle University.

Table of Contents

1. Matthew: Negotiating Tradition and Identity in Matthean and Latinx Contexts
Gilberto A. Ruiz
2. Mark: A Disabled Gospel for a Disabled Community
Osvaldo D. Vena
3. Luke: The Stories We Live By
Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz
4. John: The Politics of Recognition
Francisco Lozada Jr.
5. Acts of the Apostles: An Ideological Hispanic Contextual Reading
Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo
6. Romans: Structural Sin and the Justice of God
Elsa Támez
7. 1 Corinthians: A Latinx Reading on Conflict, Leadership, and Liberation
Efraín Agosto
8. 2 Corinthians: An Egalitarian Ideology for the Latinx Church
Aída Besançon Spencer
9. Galatians: Good News for a People under Duress
Nancy Elizabeth Bedford
10. Ephesians: God’s New Humanity, Artisan of Justice and Shalom
Mariano Avila
11. Philippians: Empire and Price, Migrants and Discrimination – A Reading “From Below”
Néstor Oscar Míguez
12. Colossians: Paul’s Teaching and Its Implications for the Latinx Church
Awilda González
13. 1 Thessalonians: Latinx Imaginations about Everyday Hope
Eric D. Barreto
14. 2 Thessalonians: Latinx y el Fin de los Tiempos
Ediberto López-Rodríguez
15. 1 Timothy and Titus: Reading the Pastoral Epistles from el Otro Lado/the Other Side
Manuel Villalobos Mendoza
16. 2 Timothy: Forged in the Past for the Work to Come
Corinna Y. Guerrero
17. Philemon: A “Useful” Letter Para el Pueblo de Dios
Rudolph D. González
18. Hebrews: Grounding Interpretation in the Latinx Community
Renata Furst
19. James: Brief Personal Notes on the Epistle
Alejandro F. Botta
20. 1 Peter: The Good, the Bad, and the Empire
Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz
21. 2 Peter: Testament, A Latinx Collective Memory Reading
Alvin Padilla
22. 1 John: Schism and Schismatics in a Latin American Context
Osvaldo D. Vena
23. 2 and 3 John: A Latinx Diaspora Reading of Hospitality
Roberto Mata
24. Jude: “Othering” in the Politics of Faith
Luis R. Rivera
25. Revelation: Determination Beyond Hope
Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

Reviews

A major tidal turn has occurred in academic biblical studies, signaled by the arrival of the Global South into the colonial metropolitan centers. Not only do they insert their bodies, colors, races, accents, they also read and write back to the Empire, thereby underlining the imperative to revisit academic biblical studies pedagogy in terms of methods, theories, and content. This volume is heartily welcomed, for not only does it attest to this major tidal turn, but it also enables the responsible professor to change the syllabus accordingly. Let this be a happy arrival and reading for both the professors and students of biblical studies who wish answer to their times!

— Musa W. Dube, Emory University

There is simply no other book like this in the field of New Testament studies! The ‘commentaries’ in this edited volume, while all coming under the collective term of Latinx, show a diversity of perspectives at the same time. Most importantly, readers will find many fresh and cogent analyses to help them reconsider what they think they already know about the New Testament and Latinx communities.

— Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross

This compelling collection offers reflections by Latinx academics on a New Testament text in conversation with their contemporary social context. These comentarios, arranged in canonical order, are framed by helpful methodological essays by the editors. I commend this volume as an introduction to the New Testament; as a rich map of the diverse Latinidad expressions of faith, justice, and imaginario; and as a welcoming door into the future of biblical hermeneutics.

— Ched Myers, co-author of Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Rights

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