Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament

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.

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!

• 1. Matthew: Negotiating Tradition and Identity in Matthean and Latinx Contexts Gilberto A. Ruiz2. Mark: A Disabled Gospel for a Disabled CommunityOsvaldo D. Vena3. Luke: The Stories We Live ByLeticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz4. John: The Politics of RecognitionFrancisco Lozada Jr.5. Acts of the Apostles: An Ideological Hispanic Contextual ReadingRubén Muñoz-Larrondo6. Romans: Structural Sin and the Justice of GodElsa Támez7. 1 Corinthians: A Latinx Reading on Conflict, Leadership, and LiberationEfraín Agosto8. 2 Corinthians: An Egalitarian Ideology for the Latinx ChurchAída Besançon Spencer9. Galatians: Good News for a People under DuressNancy Elizabeth Bedford10. Ephesians: God’s New Humanity, Artisan of Justice and ShalomMariano Avila11. Philippians: Empire and Price, Migrants and Discrimination – A Reading “From Below”Néstor Oscar Míguez12. Colossians: Paul’s Teaching and Its Implications for the Latinx ChurchAwilda González13. 1 Thessalonians: Latinx Imaginations a