Pacific School of Religion
Professor of New Testament
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 2006

PhD Vanderbilt University, 1997
MA Vanderbilt University, 1994
MA Olivet Nazarene University, 1986
BA Olivet Nazarene University, 1984

Phone: 510/849-8219
E-mail: bliew@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Inter(con)textual and interdisciplinary reading/ studying of the New Testament
  
• Colonial/ Postcolonial studies
  
• Gender/ Sexuality studies
  
• Racial/ ethnic studies, particularly Asian-American studies
  
• Philosophical hermeneutics/ literary theory
• Studies on the Greco-Roman world
  

Selected Publications

• What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?  Reading the New Testament. (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies Series; Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming 2008). 
•  "Margins and (Cutting-)Edges: On the (Il)Legitimacy and Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and (Post)Colonialism."  Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary Intersections, ed. Stephen D. Moore and Fernando F. Segovia (New York: Continuum, 2005) 114-65.
  

• [With Theodore W. Jennings, Jr.]  “Mistaken Identities But Model Faith: Re-Reading the Centurion, the Chap, and the Christ in Matthew 8:5-13.” Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004) 467-94.
  

• “Re-Mark-able Masculinities?  Jesus, the Son of Man, or the (Sad) Sum of Manhood.”  New Testament Masculinities, ed. Stephen D. Moore and Janice Capel Anderson.  (Atlanta: SBL, 2003) 93-135.
  

• Guest Editor, The Bible in Asian America. Semeia, 90-91 (Atlanta:SBL, 2002).
  

•  Politics of Parousia: Reading Mark Inter(con)textually (Biblical Interpretation Series; Leiden: Brill, 1999).