Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Hans de Wit, Janet Dyk -- Part 1. The dynamics of intercultural Bible reading: conceptual framework. Intercultural Bible reading as transformation for liberation: intercultural hermeneutics and biblical studies / Fernando F. Segovia ; Bible and transformation: the many faces of transformation / Hans de Wit ; The ethics of transformative reading: the text, the other, and oneself / John Mansford Prior ; Transformation in intercultural Bible reading: a view from practical theology / Daniel S. Schipani ; Toward transformation: factors in transformative reading / Danie C. van Zyl ; Growing together: the benefits of intercultural Bible studies at the local level / Werner Kahl -- Part 2. Rape and outrage: case studies on 2 Samuel 13. Part 2.1. In her memory: Tamar's story in global perspective. The effect of cultural setting: semantics, the role of the father, and gossip (a dialogue between Indonesia and Germany) / Batara Sihombing ; Reading the text, reading the others, reading ourselves (a dialogue between Germany and Indonesia) / Rainer Kessler ; Personal application, social justice, and social transformation (a dialogue between Myanmar and the Netherlands) / La Rip Marip ; "Baby, it's cold outside": coercive and persuasive discourse and hegemony (a dialogue between the United States and the Netherlands) / Jeff Moore -- Part 2.2. In her memory: Tamar's story in local perspective. How to share stories of trauma: reading Tamar in Amsterdam / Willemien van Berkum ; "We are all Tamar": transforming culture through the Bible (a dialogue within Amsterdam) / Godian Ejiogu ; Stories are close, reports are far: the limits of intercultural Bible reading with homeless people (a dialogue within Amsterdam) / Luc Tanja ; Making the circle safer: intercultural Bible reading in the context of sexual violence (a dialogue within South Africa) / Charlene van der Walt, Kim Barker ; The biblical text as a heterotopic intercultural site: in search of redemptive masculinities (a dialogue within South Africa) / Gerald West -- Part 3. Together at the tomb: case studies on John 20. "It has been ordained by our ancestors that women keep quiet": intercultural reading as a challenge to cultural roles (a dialogue between Indonesia and Bolivia) / Batara Sihombing ; Ghosts, women, and evangelism (a dialogue between Bolivia and Indonesia) / Esa Autero ; Easter at Christmas: reading a familiar text in unfamiliar ways (a dialogue among Ghana, Colombia, and the Netherlands) / Eric Nii Bortey Anum ; "We are so beautiful": reading the Bible and transforming life (a dialogue between Colombia and the Netherlands) / Ignacio Antonio Madera Vargas ; Looking beyond secularism and communism: experiences from eastern Cuba (a dialogue between Cuba and the Netherlands) / Ricardo González Kindelan ; Looking for the body of Jesus: Mary Magdalene through the eyes of an ancestral Peruvian culture (a dialogue between Peru and India) / Marisol Ale Díaz, Manuel Obeso Perez ; The complex role of views on the Bible in intercultural encounters (a dialogue among Cuba, Colombia, Ghana, and the Netherlands) / Hans Snoek.

Part 4. Am I my sister's keeper?: case studies on other texts. Am I my brother's keeper?: justice and transformation in a Malagasy-Norwegian dialogue (Genesis 4) / Knut Holter ; Breaking down the boundaries that appear to make us enemies (a dialogue between Dominicans and Haitians on Ruth) / Digna María Adames Nuñez ; On becoming a family in South Africa: intercultural Bible reading as transformative power in society (Luke 11:1-13) / Louis Jonker ; An intimate revelation: reading Luke 15:11-32 with adolescents / Taggert E. Wolverton ; Sharing memories, overcoming solitude: reading the story of the widow and the unjust judge in situations of impunity in Latin America (a dialogue among Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, and Guatemala) / José Vicente Vergara Hoyos ; Concluding reflections / Hans de Wit, Janet Dyk.

"This book offers the results of research within a new area of discipline--empirical hermeneutics in intercultural perspective. Ordinary readers from more than twenty-five countries in interaction with a distant partner group engage the stories of the rape of biblical accounts. Interpretations from the homeless in Amsterdam, to Indonesia, from African Xhosa readers to Norway, to Madagascar, American youths, Germany, Czech Republic, Colombia, and Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic offer a (road)map of the sometimes delightful and inspiring, sometimes rough and rocky road to inclusive and transformative Bible reading"--