June 2023<br><em>African Hermeneutics</em><br>Elizabeth Mburu
If we truly believe that the church is one body, then we ought to be aware of what is happening in the rest of the world. . . . This approach challenges and broadens the lens of assumptions and interpretation of those outside Africa because it presents readers with a different way of looking at texts. It can help other readers see what lies in their blind spots.
May 2023<br><em>Tell Her Story</em><br>Nijay K. Gupta
There is evidence right in the Bible that women led (like Deborah), taught (like Prisca), and ministered (like Junia and Phoebe) in the early churches, called by God and responsive to the needs of the people of God. We need to tell their stories to hear the full gospel taught in the Bible.
April 2023<br><em>Engaging the Old Testament</em><br>Dominick S. Hernández
I also encourage readers to read deliberately, that is, to slow down and to think not only about the information that the Old Testament writer is trying to impart, but also what the Old Testament writer is trying to do.
March 2023<br><em>Abuelita Faith</em><br>Kat Armas
I wrote this as a love letter to my Latinx community. Many of our first theologians were our grandmothers and mothers—women of valor who would be overlooked as theologians to the dominant culture because of their socioeconomic status, their gender, their lack of Western education, their accent, or the pigmentation of their skin.
February 2023<br><em>Ruth</em> (NICOT)<br> Peter H. W. Lau
Some important themes in Ruth include God’s hidden providence, human initiative and action, the cycle of divine-human kindness, God’s blessing, applying the law, and Ruth’s ethnicity and Israelite identity.
January 2023<br>Reading the Bible Around the World<br>Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin Marc Smith, Kirsten Sonkyo Oh, Alice Yafeh-Deigh, and Kay Higuera Smith
The book is . . . oriented toward detailing ways of reading from different vantage points (global, ethnic, racial, sex/gender, etc.). It means to open new vistas for understanding that will draw students/readers into an awareness and, hopefully, a celebration of how the Bible is being read around the world.
December 2022 <br>Exploring the Old Testament in Asia <br>Edited by Jerry Hwang and Angukali Rotokha
The Old Testament originated in ancient West Asia, so using the interpretive lenses of modern East Asia and South Asia can aid Christians in every place to understand the OT better than if they only used the Western lenses that have typically characterized OT scholarship.
November 2022 <br><em>The Lord Roars</em> <br>by M. Daniel Carroll R.
The thesis is that we need to learn to read the prophets well as literature to better understand what it means to be prophetic and speak prophetically today. — People use that jargon today, but not all actually look at the prophetic books closely and comprehensively.
October 2022 <br><em>African American Readings of Paul</em><br>by Lisa M. Bowens
I hope that readers will be inspired and encouraged by the African American interpreters in the monograph and their faith in God, a faith which often endured horrific circumstances.
September 2022<br><em>A Multitude of All Peoples</em><br>by Vince L. Bantu
The primary reason why non-Christians in the Majority World are not interested in Christianity is because they see it as white and Western and therefore as antithetical to their identity. It seems culturally foreign. So I wanted to highlight and elevate non-Western forms of the faith.