The Peoples' Bible [Hardcover]

Curtiss Paul Deyoung (Editor), Wilda C. Gafney (Editor), Leticia Guardiola-Saenz (Editor), George E. Tinker (Editor), Frank M. Yamada (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2008

The Peoples' Bible highlights the role of cultures in shaping the Bible and the way people read the Bible
today. Relying on the best insights of historical-critical, liberationist, postmodern, and postcolonial
interpretation the contributors include the editors of the volume plus Kosuke Koyama, Randall C. Bailey, Fernando
F. Segovia, Elsa Tamez, Clarice Martin, Hee An Choi, Gale A. Yee, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, and many more.

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About the Author

Curtiss Paul DeYoung is Professor of Reconciliation Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and
author of Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice (2007, 978-0- 8006-3841-2).

Wilda C. Gafney is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Philadelphia and author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel (2008, 978-0-8006-6258-5).

Leticia Guardiola-Saenz teaches New Testament at the School of Theology of Seattle University.

George E. Tink Tinker is Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff Seminary in
Denver, and the author most recently of Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation
(2004, 978-0-8006-3681-4).

Frank Yamada is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1600 pages
• Publisher: Fortress Press (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806656255
• ISBN-13: 978-0806656250
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.8 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Bible That You Should Own, March 17, 2009

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Maitland B. Mckenzie (Spanaway, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Peoples' Bible (Hardcover)

Unlike many traditional Bibles, this one gives you the text without the breaking up of the stories into the traditional pericopes and the traditional tiles of those pericopes. You get the text and you decide what you are reading. There are small comments on parts of the text but those comments are there to make you think and not tell you what to think. The introduction to each book will help you see each book through a new set of social lenses rather than from your traditional social location that really does have an impact on how you read and interpret the scriptures.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Bible to Speak to All God's People, February 7, 2010

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William B. Jones - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Peoples' Bible (Hardcover)

"The Peoples' Bible" speaks not only of the ancient cultural settings of scriptural texts, but also to how scripture has been used in and by a variety of cultures through history. So each book of the Bible, in addition to being introduced by the type of historical overview common in study bibles such as HarperCollins and New Oxford Annotated, is accompanied by in-text commentaries which identify readings which have been problematic for different people over time, and/or seek to apply the biblical text in liberative ways to contemporary situations.

"The Peoples' Bible" provides something of the cultural locations of most of its commentators. Contemporary biblical art and documentary photography further the editors' goal of widening the reader's experience. "The Peoples' Bible" may be recommended as a multicultural project which seeks to inform "first world" readers of "two-thirds world" sensitivities. Nicely bound, though a more generous font-size for the commentary inserts would be welcome in future printings, as would a table of parallel Gospel passages. Four and a half stars.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's a Bible, March 5, 2009

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Pamela J. Moore (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Peoples' Bible (Hardcover)

I have to say that I'm disappointed with this Bible. The description made it sound as if there would be many new insights into the cultures of then and now. Not so. The introductions to the Bible are helpful articles, and the introductions to each book provide good information, though not better than anything else I own. The occasional inset articles really do not provide much that is helpful for me as a pastor.

That having been said, it is a Bible. If you need a Bible and the price is right, this may be the Bible for you. It is the New Revised Standard Version, which I enjoy using, and so it will be one more Bible on my shelf, which will get used as often as any other.