Leung Lai, Barbara M.
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Dr. Barbara M. Leung Lai is Research Professor of Old Testament
BTh, Alliance Bible Seminary, 1972
MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1976
ThM, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, 1979
PhD, University of Sheffield, England, 1997
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Recent Submissions
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The Preacher and One's 'Text-of-Life'
(PearsonBoston, Mass., 2014) -
Uncovering the Isaian Personality: Wishful Thinking or Viable Task?
(Sheffield Phoenix PressSheffield, UK, 2007) -
Psalm 44 and the Function of Lament and Protest
(The Old Testament Society of Southern AfricaPretoria, Gauteng, ZA, 2007)Approaching the text with a psychological lens along with historical-critical tools, this essay examines the role of lament and protest in the worship of ancient Israel. Given the nature of the book of Psalms as a worship ... -
Making Sense of the Biblical Portrait: Toward an Interpretive Strategy for the “Virtuous Wife” in Proverbs 31: 10-31
(Clement PublishingToronto, Ont., 2001) -
A Reflection from an Ethnic Member of the Faculty
(American Association of Theological SchoolsDayton, Ohio, 2002)This three-part article offers three observations on racial/ethnic student diversity in theological education. The first essay, by Barbara Leung Lai of Tyndale Seminary, provides a personal reflection by a racial/ethnic ... -
Word Becoming Flesh [On Appropriation]: Engaging Daniel as a Survival Manual
(Hendrickson PublishersPeabody, Mass., 2013) -
“I"-Voice, Emotion, and Selfhood in Nehemiah
(The Old Testament Society of Southern AfricaPretoria, Gauteng, ZA, 2015)Working towards the advancement of character studies in the HB, this essay represents an attempt of internal profiling of the character Nehemiah through his first-person “I”-voice (I-texts in Nehemiah). The role of ... -
Voice and Ideology in Ecclesiastes: Reading 'Cross the Grains’
(Society of Biblical LiteratureAtlanta, GA, 2013) -
Father, Eternal and Unchanging
(ZondervanGrand Rapids, MI, 2015) -
Obed
(Abingdon PressNashville, Tenn., 2009) -
Glimpsing the Mystery: The Book of Daniel
(Lexham PressBellingham, WA, 2016) -
Through the “I”-Window: The Inner Life of Characters in the Hebrew Bible
(Sheffield Phoenix PressSheffield, UK, 2011) -
What Would Bakhtin Say about Isaiah 21:1-12? A Re-reading
(The Old Testament Society of Southern AfricaPretoria, Gauteng, ZA, 2010)Employing the Bakhtinian theory of polyphony and dialogism, the following is a re-reading of my previous publication on the same passage.2 While the feasibility of uncovering the internal aspects of the Isaian personality ... -
Total Otherness, Awe-Driven Self-Condemnation, and Atonement for Guilt: The Psychology of Religious Experience and Guilt in Isaiah 6
(Nova ScienceNew York, 2010)Oriented in the integrated area of psychology and biblical studies, this chapter examines the interrelatedness between the psychological impact of religious experience and the evoking of guilt. A first-person biblical text ... -
Daniel
(Augsburg FortressMinneapolis, MN, 2009) -
Invited Book Review of Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization
(Catholic Biblical Association of AmericaWashington, D.C., 2021-01) -
Engaging Ecclesiastes Narrativally and Polyphonically with a Chinese Lens: Traditional Wisdom and “Collective Lived Experience Under the Sum” in Dialogue
(T & T Clark, BloomsburyLondon, UK, 2019) -
Making Some Sense of the Paradox: Polyphony, Conflicting Ideologies, Dialogism, and the Dialectic Dynamics of Ecclesiastes
(The Old Testament Society of Southern Africa (OTSSA)Pretoria, Gauteng, ZA, 2021)Rooted in the rubrics of “Text and Reading,”* 1 this article correlates some of the new advances in the study of Ecclesiastes in the recent past. 2 Employing four intentionally hammered out reading strategies—reading ... -
The Costly Loss of Lament and Protest: Toward a Biblical Theology of Lament and Protest (Psalm 44)
(Regent College PublishingVancouver, B.C., 2014) -
Surely, All Are in Vain! : Psalm 73 and Humanity Reaching Out to God
(Sheffield Phoenix PressSheffield, Eng., 2007)
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