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DANIEL SMITH-CHRISTOPHER (ed.), Text and Experience: Towards a Cultural Exegesis of the Bible (Biblical Seminar 35; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995). Pp. 354. Paper 16.95, $24.50.
The collected essays included in this volume were presented in March 1992 at the Casassa Conference at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles by a group of scholars whose national origins or missionary experiences make them representative of over a dozen different countries and cultures. Their common ground was a commitment to the principles of "cultural exegesis" in biblical interpretation, an affirmation of the necessity of different readings and of the uniqueness of readers from diverse cultures.
Included in the volume are the following papers: Harold C. Washington, " And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy': Gender and Culture in Early Quaker Biblical Interpretation" (pp. 23-42), John Kampen, "The Genre and Function of Apocalyptic Literature in the African American Experience" (pp. 43-65), Mary Milligan, R.S.H.M., "The Bible as Formative in a Basic Christian Community of Brazil" (pp. 66-81), Tamara C. Eskenazi, "Perspectives from Jewish Exegesis" (pp. 82-103), Thomas W Overholt, "Feeding the Widow, Raising the Dead: What Counts as Cultural Exegesis?" (pp. 104- 21), John Y. H. Yieh, "Cultural Reading of the Bible: Some...