Sung Uk Lim
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sung Uk Lim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sung Uk |
| FAMILY NAME | Lim |
| SIGNATURE | LIM S U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yonsei University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9467-035X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ethnosexual Otherness and National Building
This study offers a postcolonial, intersectional rereading of John 4:1–42 that juxtaposes the Johannine encounter of the Samaritan woman with the historical legacy of Korean “comfort women” to illuminate the ethnosexual dynamics of colonial and patriarchal power. Employing an intersectional lens that foregrounds ethnosexuality—how ethnic boundary-making and sexualized stigma mutually constitute regimes of exclusion—the essay proceeds in three ste…
Josephus’s Rhetorical Construction of the Galileans as Proximate Others
This study explores Josephus’s rhetorical portrayal of the Galileans in an intricate web of interactions with the Judeans/Jews. The Galileans’ identity, as presented by Josephus, is a literary construct that is rhetorically flexible and malleable when viewed through various analytical lenses, such as ethnicity, geography, politics, religion, and culture. Ethnically, Josephus depicts the Galileans as a fragmented yet significant presence in the Ha…
Suffering and memory in Asian contexts and beyond
How can we ensure that these important voices testifying to the memory of comfort women do not remain solely figments of local history, fixed within a certain time, to be gradually forgotten with each passing generation? In reflecting on this question, this study ventures the possibility of constructing a hermeneutical model that critically engages the memory of comfort women for the sake of all global citizens committed to resisting any types of…
Bare Lives in the Shadow of Empires
This article delves into the biopolitical dimension of Jesus and Korean comfort women by engaging with the insight yet to be gleaned from Giorgio Agamben’s notion of bare life. Seen through this biopolitical prism, Jesus in the passion narratives of the Gospels can be understood as a paradigmatic bare life in his sheer ambiguity, which swings back and forth between terrestrial and celestial dominions. Similarly, Korean comfort women, albeit in a …
Performing the Bible in the Korean Context
The present study explores the performative nature of the Bible as a sacred text in the Korean context. Drawing on the theory of scriptural performance advocated by James W. Watts, I investigate its character as words and contents. First, I delve into the scriptural performance of thoroughly reading (and listening to) the Bible at the level of words. Second, I scrutinize the scriptural performance of singing and dramatizing the Bible at the level…
The otherness of Onesimus
Onesimus has so far remained a colonized or marginalized other in the text and history of reception across historical and cultural constraints. In contrast to this colonizing strategy of reading, the thesis of this paper is that Onesimus, as a minor character, plays a major role in liberating himself from the bondage of slavery’s hierarchical structures within the context of Roman imperial rule. There is a commonly held consensus among most, thou…
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The otherness of Onesimus
Onesimus has so far remained a colonized or marginalized other in the text and history of reception across historical and cultural constraints. In contrast to this colonizing strategy of reading, the thesis of this paper is that Onesimus, as a minor character, plays a major role in liberating himself from the bondage of slavery’s hierarchical structures within the context of Roman imperial rule. There is a commonly held consensus among most, thou…
Bare Lives in the Shadow of Empires
This article delves into the biopolitical dimension of Jesus and Korean comfort women by engaging with the insight yet to be gleaned from Giorgio Agamben’s notion of bare life. Seen through this biopolitical prism, Jesus in the passion narratives of the Gospels can be understood as a paradigmatic bare life in his sheer ambiguity, which swings back and forth between terrestrial and celestial dominions. Similarly, Korean comfort women, albeit in a …
Performing the Bible in the Korean Context
The present study explores the performative nature of the Bible as a sacred text in the Korean context. Drawing on the theory of scriptural performance advocated by James W. Watts, I investigate its character as words and contents. First, I delve into the scriptural performance of thoroughly reading (and listening to) the Bible at the level of words. Second, I scrutinize the scriptural performance of singing and dramatizing the Bible at the level…
Suffering and memory in Asian contexts and beyond
How can we ensure that these important voices testifying to the memory of comfort women do not remain solely figments of local history, fixed within a certain time, to be gradually forgotten with each passing generation? In reflecting on this question, this study ventures the possibility of constructing a hermeneutical model that critically engages the memory of comfort women for the sake of all global citizens committed to resisting any types of…
Josephus’s Rhetorical Construction of the Galileans as Proximate Others
This study explores Josephus’s rhetorical portrayal of the Galileans in an intricate web of interactions with the Judeans/Jews. The Galileans’ identity, as presented by Josephus, is a literary construct that is rhetorically flexible and malleable when viewed through various analytical lenses, such as ethnicity, geography, politics, religion, and culture. Ethnically, Josephus depicts the Galileans as a fragmented yet significant presence in the Ha…
Ethnosexual Otherness and National Building
This study offers a postcolonial, intersectional rereading of John 4:1–42 that juxtaposes the Johannine encounter of the Samaritan woman with the historical legacy of Korean “comfort women” to illuminate the ethnosexual dynamics of colonial and patriarchal power. Employing an intersectional lens that foregrounds ethnosexuality—how ethnic boundary-making and sexualized stigma mutually constitute regimes of exclusion—the essay proceeds in three ste…
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