Semeia articles

Recent articles from Semeia

Home as memory, metaphor, and promise in Asian/Pacific American religious experience.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT Whether forced or voluntary, exile is an uprooting, a displacement that is physical, metaphorical, or sometimes even both. Especially key to the preservation and reconstruction of our identity, culture, and community as Asian/Pacific Americans of various ethnicities is the...

Uriah the Hittite: a (con)text of struggle for identity.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT Uriah the Hittite is not the first person one remembers when one thinks about the story of 2 Samuel 11, popularly known as the story of "David and Bathsheba." However, if the readers, especially from minority groups, pay closer attention to Uriah the Hittite, his story reveals...

Resident aliens of the diaspora: 1 Peter and Chinese Protestants in San Francisco.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT The book of 1 Peter was written to resident aliens in Asia Minor whose social location and experiences of marginalization were shared by Chinese Protestants in San Francisco in the nineteenth century. Like the Jews in 1 Peter's community, the Chinese were part of a diaspora...

From Babel to Pentecost: finding a home in the belly of the Empire.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT As the title suggests, this essay interprets Babel and Pentecost in relation to the U.S. context, especially as seen through the struggle and dreams of Asian North Americans for a colorful and just society. Through a postcolonial critique of the myth of the tower of Babel,...

Introduction: whose Bible? Which (Asian) America?
March 22, 2002... Chicago Theological Seminary My Chinese husband... told me one day that he thought the stories in the Bible were more like Chinese than American stories, and added: "If you had not told me what you have about it, I should say that it was composed by the Chinese." (Sui Sin Far: 78) ...