Pembacaan Lintas Tekstual: Tantangan Ber-Hermeneutik Alkitab Asia (1)

Abstract

In the present article I offer a discussion of Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and its relationship to postcolonial biblical criticism, which partly implicated to a multi-faith hermeneutical method. It included the examination of several issues such as the location of the application of the method, methodical options, critical appraisal to the method, as well as its significance for contextual Bible study within my Asian and Indonesian contexts. I put forward as well a critical discussion of several examples of the way Asian hermeneuticians and theologians using the method. I conclude it with my own hermeneutical standpoint through the elaboration on a cross-textual reading of sacred texts and its function as an important instrument within the field of interreligious dialogue.

Keywords

• multi-faith hermeneutics
• cross-textual reading
• post-colonial biblical criticism