What Has Jerusalem to Do With Beijing?: Biblical Interpretation Form a Chinese Perspective

K.K. Yeo is a promising young voice from Asia whose discernment of the relevance of the gospel to cultures and current socio-political realities in that part of the world is welcome and needed for the West's understanding of the East, and even for the East's understanding of itself. His studies gathered here range from exploration of the philosophical structure of eastern Buddhist cultures to present-day political realities in Malaysia and China.The book is divided into three parts. Part I examines the methods of cross-cultural hermeneutics. Part II represents a dialogue with perennial themes in Chinese culture: Yin and Yang in Genesis and Exodus; the Ming of Tien ("will of God') in Amos and Confucius; the Li and Jen "torah and spirit" in Romans. Part III applies biblical messages to current Chinese situations, including suffering, oppressive acts such as Tienanmen Square, and the role of women.

K.K. Yeo is a promising young voice from Asia whose discernment of the relevance of the gospel to cultures and current socio-political realities in that part of the world is welcome and needed for the West's understanding of the East, and even for the East's understanding of itself. His studies gathered here range from exploration of the philosophical structure of eastern Buddhist cultures to present-day political realities in Malaysia and China.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I examines the methods of cross-cultural hermeneutics. Part II represents a dialogue with perennial themes in Chinese culture: Yin and Yang in Genesis and Exodus; the Ming of Tien ("will of God') in Amos and Confucius; the Li and Jen "torah and spirit" in Romans. Part III applies biblical messages to current Chinese situations, including suffering, oppressive acts such as Tienanmen Square, and the role of women.

"K.K. Yeo's uncanny ability to inject Asian wisdom into Western learning equips him to do exciting biblical scholarship. Communal Asian values balancing the Western penchant for individualism call for exegetical skills that only a few can deliver. K.K. Yeo is one of the few." --The Rev. Dr. Yeow Choo-lak, Executive Director, The Association for Theological Education in Southeast Asia

Khiok-Khng Yeo is Assistant Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary. He formerly taught New Testament and biblical hermeneutics in Hong Kong. He is the author of several books in Chinese and of Rhetorical Interaction in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10: A Formal Analysis with Implications for a Cross-Cultural Chinese Hermeneutic.