With regard to the interpretation of the Bible as part of a religious liberation agenda, every “reading” is, and must always be recognized as, culture-specific. Thus, even every potentially “liberating” hermeneutical construct must reflect the history of that people to be liberated. The traditional historical-critical methods have been viewed by some as inadequate for, even detrimental to, efforts to construct a liberation-oriented hermeneutic. Those for whom the methods are inadequate—including