Womanist interpretations of the Bible : expanding the discourse / edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byron, Gay L., editor.

Lovelace, Vanessa, editor.

Series:

Semeia studies ; no. 85.

Semeia studies ; number 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 387 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Womanist Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the Discourse brings together cross-generational and cross-cultural readings of the Bible and other sacred sources by including scholars from the Caribbean, India, and Africa who have not traditionally fit into the narrow U.S., African American paradigm for understanding womanist biblical interpretation. The volume engages the reader in a wide range of interdisciplinary methods and perspectives, such as gender and feminist criticism, social-scientific methods, post-colonial and psychoanalytical theory that emphasize the inherently intersectional dynamics of race, ethnicity, and class at work in womanist thought and analysis"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Methods and the making of womanist biblical hermeneutics / Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace

Part 1. Gender and sexuality. The invisible women : numbers 30 and the politics of singleness in Africana communities / Stacy Davis

A womanist midrash of Delilah : don't hate the playa hate the game / Wil Gafney

The song of songs : redeeming gender constructions in the age of AIDS / Cheryl B. Anderson

Part 2. Agency and advocacy. Race, gender, and the politics of "sass" : reading Mark 7:24-30 through a womanist lens of intersectionality and inter(con)textuality / Mitzi J. Smith

Antitypes, stereotypes, and antetypes : Jezebel, the Sun Woman, and contemporary black women / Love L. Sechrest

One more time with Assata on my mind : a womanist rereading of the escape to Egypt (Matt 2:13-23) in dialogue with an African American woman fugitive narrative / Shively T.J. Smith

"Battered love" : exposing abuse in the Book of Job / Marlene Underwood

Part 3. Foregrounding women on the margins. Black collectors and keepers of tradition : resources for a womanist biblical ethic of (re)interpretation / Gay L. Byron

Flowing from breast to breast : an examination of dis/placed motherhood in African American and Indian wet nurses / Sharon Jacob and Jennifer T. Kaalund

"We don't give birth to thugs" : family values, respectability politics, and Jephthah's mother / Vanessa Lovelace

Part 4. Illuminating biblical children/childhood. Outrageous, audacious, courageous, willful : reading the enslaved girl of Acts 12 / Margaret Aymer

"Nobody's free until everybody's free" : exploring gender and class injustice in a story about children (Luke 18:15-17) / Bridgett A. Green

"I will make boys their princes" : a womanist reading of children in the Book of Isaiah / Valerie Bridgeman

Part 5. In response. Miracles and gifts : a womanist reading of John 14:12-14 and Ephesians 4:11-16 / Layli Maparyan

Looking forward from the horizon : a response in Africana sisterhood and solidarity / Althea Spencer-Miller

Challenged and changed / Katharine Doob Sakenfeld

The road we are traveling / Emilie M. Townes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Womanist interpretations of the Bible

ISBN:

9781628371529

1628371528

9780884141853

0884141853

OCLC:

953441412

Publisher Number:

40026657599