Tat-Siong Benny Liew

Tat-Siong Benny Liew is a Chinese-American New Testament scholar.

Biography

Liew obtained his BA and MA from Olivet Nazarene University and completed a PhD in New Testament from Vanderbilt University. He taught New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary and Pacific School of Theology and, in Autumn 2013, took up the 1956 Chair of New Testament Studies in the religious studies department of College of the Holy Cross.[1]

Much of his scholarship is around New Testament studies, related to the gospels, and for promoting Asian-American biblical hermeneutics.[2]

Controversy

In 2018, the college's alternative newspaper, the Fenwick Review, published extracts of Liew's scholarship which suggested that Jesus had "queer desires."[1] Though this was seen as controversial, given that Holy Cross is a Jesuit institution, Liew was defended by the president Philip Burroughs on the basis of academic freedom.[3] Nevertheless, this led to a petition of 14,000 signaturies demanding his dismissal,[4] and an open letter written by Robert J. McManus, the Catholic bishop of Worcester, declaring Liew views blasphemous and stating "academic freedom… particularly in the fields of theology or religious studies, cannot provide cover for blatantly unorthodox teaching."[5]

Works
  • Liew, Tat-Siong Benny (1999). Politics of Parousia: Reading Mark Inter(Con)Textually. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-11360-2.
  • Liew, Tat-Siong Benny (2008). What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics?: Reading the New Testament. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3162-2.
  • Liew, Tat-Siong Benny, ed. (2009). Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R.S. Sugirtharajah. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1-906055-70-7.
  • Bailey, Randall C.; Liew, Tat-Siong Benny; Segovia, Fernando F., eds. (2009). They Were All Together in One Place?: Toward Minority Biblical Criticism. Society of Biblical Lit. ISBN 978-1-58983-245-9.
  • Liew, Tat-Siong Benny, ed. (2011). Reading Ideologies: Essays on the Bible and Interpretation in Honor of Mary Ann Tolbert. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1-907534-27-0.
  • Liew, Tat-siong Benny; Runions, Erin, eds. (2016). Psychoanalytic Mediations between Marxist and Postcolonial Reading of the Bible. SBL Press. ISBN 978-0-88414-166-2.
  • Liew, Tat-siong Benny; Segovia, Fernando F., eds. (2018). Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-7276-7.

References
  1. Reilly, Elinor (28 March 2018). "New Ways in Theology at Holy Cross - March 2018 - The Fenwick Review". Fenwick Review. Archived from the original on 28 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  2. "Tat siong Benny Liew". College of the Holy Cross. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  3. Weigel, George (5 April 2018). "Defending the Indefensible at Holy Cross". National Review. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  4. Jaschik, Scott (2 April 2018). "Holy Cross defends professor under attack for his writings on Jesus and sexuality". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  5. Allen, Charlotte (17 April 2018). "Heresy at a Jesuit College". First Things. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
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