Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to examine and interpret each of the twenty-seven books that make up the New Testament.

Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each chapter examines one of the twenty-seven documents thematically instead of following the traditional verse-by-verse commentary format.

1. Matthew: Negotiating Tradition and Identity in Matthean and Latinx Contexts

Gilberto A. Ruiz

2. Mark: A Disabled Gospel for a Disabled Community

Osvaldo D. Vena

3. Luke: The Stories We Live By

Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz

4. John: The Politics of Recognition

Francisco Lozada Jr.

5. Acts of the Apostles: An Ideological Hispanic Contextual Reading

Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo

6. Romans: Structural Sin and the Justice of God

Elsa Támez

7. 1 Corinthians: A Latinx Reading on Conflict, Leadership, and Liberation

Efraín Agosto

8. 2 Corinthians: An Egalitarian Ideology for the Latinx Church

Aída Besançon Spencer

9. Galatians: Good News for a People under Duress

Nancy Elizabeth Bedford

10. Ephesians: God’s New Humanity, Artisan of Justice and Shalom

Mariano Avila

11. Philippians: Empire and Price, Migrants and Discrimination – A Reading “From Below”

Néstor Oscar Míguez

12. Colossians: Paul’s Teaching and Its Implications for the Latinx Church

Awilda González

13. 1 Thessalonians: Latinx Imaginations about Everyday Hope

Eric D. Barreto

14. 2 Thessalonians: Latinx y el Fin de los Tiempos

Ediberto López-Rodríguez

15. 1 Timothy and Titus: Reading the Pastoral Epistles from el Otro Lado/the Other Side

Manuel Villalobos Mendoza

16. 2 Timothy: Forged in the Past for the Work to Come

Corinna Y. Guerrero

17. Philemon: A “Useful” Letter Para el Pueblo de Dios

Rudolph D. González

18. Hebrews: Grounding Interpretation in the Latinx Community

Renata Furst

19. James: Brief Personal Notes on the Epistle

Alejandro F. Botta

20. 1 Peter: The Good, the Bad, and the Empire

Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz

21. 2 Peter: Testament, A Latinx Collective Memory Reading

Alvin Padilla

22. 1 John: Schism and Schismatics in a Latin American Context

Osvaldo D. Vena

23. 2 and 3 John: A Latinx Diaspora Reading of Hospitality

Roberto Mata

24. Jude: “Othering” in the Politics of Faith

Luis R. Rivera

25. Revelation: Determination Beyond Hope

Jacqueline M. Hidalgo