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Jeong, Don Hyeon. "Simon the Tanner, Empires, and Assemblages: A New Materialist Asian American Reading of Acts 9:43." The Bible & Critical Theory 16, no. 1 (2021): 41–63.
Explores a counter-anthropocentric reading of premodern literary evidence through a passage in the New Testament. The essay situates the episode in question within the frameworks of premodern industry, with specific reference to tanning and the manufacture of leather, and contexts of colonization to challenge anthropocentric hermeneutics in readings of Biblical materials addressed to Asian American communities. The essay is situated within intellectual currents of new materialism and Biblical hermeneutics.
