Global Perspectives on the Bible

by John R. Levison, Priscilla Pope-Levison

• Biblical Studies & Commentaries

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Published: 1999

Publisher's Description

In Return to Babel, each of ten historically significant biblical texts is interpreted by three scholars: one Latin American, one African, and one Asian. Geographic locales range from a tiny village in the Philippines to the city of Nairobi, Kenya; from Gwangju, South Korea, with its one million inhabitants, to the frontier city of Wiwili in the northern mountains of Nicaragua. The result is a collection of essays that shed new light on familiar texts and make the reader aware of the ways in which culture can shape our understanding of Scripture.