Engaging the Bible in a gendered world : an introduction to feminist biblical interpretation in honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld / Linda Day, Carolyn Pressler, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob, 1940-

Day, Linda.

Pressler, Carolyn, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Feminist criticism.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 260 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, [2006]

Summary:

In this introductory textbook, some of the most widely respected scholars in the field introduce students to the methods, issues, and theoretical frameworks central to feminist biblical interpretation. In highly accessible essays, the book covers the history, achievements, and cutting-edge questions in the area of gender and biblical scholarship, including violence and the Bible, female biblical God imagery, and sexuality. The contributors?women and men?are feminist, womanist, and pro-feminist biblical interpreters. Contributors include Phyllis Bird, Nancy Bowen, Juliana Claassens, Linda Day, Ada Maria Isasi Diaz, Frederick Dobbs-Allsopp, Freda Gardner, Nyasha Junior, Jacqueline Lapsley, Eunny Lee, Patrick Miller, Christie Nueger, Kathleen O?Connor, Dennis Olson, Anna May Say Pa, Carolyn Pressler, J. J. M. Roberts, Kathryn Roberts, Leong Seow, Elizabeth Tanner, and Renita Weems.

Contents:

Overview:

1. The feminist movement meets the Old Testament: one woman's perspective / Kathleen M. O'Connor

Part I. Perspectives:

2. Communication as communion: elements in a hermeneutic of lo cotidiano / Ada María Isasi-Díaz

3. Womanist biblical interpretation / Nyasha Junior

4. Reading Ruth 3:1-5 from an Asian woman's perspective / Anna May Say Pa

5. My sister Sarah: on being a woman in the first world / Beth LaNeel Tanner

6. Untying the knot?: masculinity, violence, and the creation-fall story of Genesis 2-4 / Dennis T. Olson

Part II. Texts:

7. Ruth the Moabite: identity, kinship, and otherness / Eunny P. Lee

8. Seeing the older woman: Naomi in high definition / Jacqueline Lapsley

9. Wisdom and the feminine in the Hebrew Bible / Linda Day

10. "I am black and beautiful": the song, Cixous, and écriture féminine / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp

11. Job's wife / C. L. Seow

Part III. Issues:

12. Image and imagination: why inclusive language matters / Christie Cozad Neuger

13. Rupturing God-language: the metaphor of God as midwife in Psalm 22 / L. Juliana M. Claasens

14. Yahweh's significant other / J. J. M. Roberts and Kathryn L. Roberts

15. Women, violence, and the Bible / Nancy R. Bowen

16. The "biblical view" of marriage / Carolyn Pressler

Part IV. Intersections:

17. Feminist interpretation and biblical theology / Phyllis A. Bird

18. Feminist interpretation for the laity / Freda A. Gardner

19. What I have learned from my sisters / Patrick D. Miller

The accomplishments of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld / Sarah Zhang

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Bibliography of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld": pages 255-260.

ISBN:

0664229107

OCLC:

70158516

Publisher Number:

9780664229108