Feminist frameworks and the Bible : power, ambiguity, and intersectionality / edited by L. Juliana Claassens and Carolyn J. Sharp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Claassens, L. Juliana M., 1972- editor.

Sharp, Carolyn J., editor.

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 630.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 630

T & T Clark library of Biblical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 258 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

The volume hosts a lively conversation about the nature and significance of biblical interpretation in a global context, focusing on issues at the nexus of operations of power, textual ambiguity, and intersectionality. Engaged here are notions of biblical authority and postures of dissent; women's agency, discernment, rivalry, and alliance in ancient and contemporary contexts; ideological constructions of sexuality and power; interpretations related to indigeneity, racial identity, interethnic intimacy, and violence in colonial contexts; theologies of the feminine divine and feminist understandings of the sacred; convictions about interdependence and conditions of flourishing for all beings in creation; and ethics of resistance positioned over against dehumanization in political, theological, and hermeneutical praxes. Through their textual and contextual engagements, contributors articulate a broad spectrum of feminist insights into the possibilities for emancipatory visions of community.

Contents:

Introduction : celebrating intersectionality, interrogating power, and embracing ambiguity as feminist critical practices / L. Juliana Claassens and Carolyn J. Sharp

Feminist biblical interpretation : how far have we come? / Katharine Doob Sakenfeld

An Abigail optic : agency, resistance, and discernment in 1 Samuel 25 / L. Juliana Claassens

Dinah (Genesis 34) at the contact zone : "shall our sister become a whore?" / Musa W. Dube

Jezebel and the feminine divine in feminist postcolonial focus / Judith E. McKinlay

The "foreign" women in Ezra-Nehemiah : intersectional perspectives on ethnicity / Christl M. Maier

The violence of power and the power of violence : hybrid, contextual perspectives on the book of Esther / Marie-Theres Wacker

"Is there a man here?" : the iron fist in the velvet glove in Judges 4 / Charlene van der Walt

Miriam and Moses's Cushite wife : sisterhood in jeopardy? / Funlola Olojede

Is this Naomi? : a feminist reading of the ambiguity of Naomi in the book of Ruth 149 / Carolyn J. Sharp

Stuck between the waiting room and the reconfigured levirate entity? : reading Ruth in marriage-obsessed African Christian contexts / Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele)

Daughters, priests, and patrilineage : a feminist and gender-critical interpretation of the end of the book of Numbers / Claudia V. Camp

"I will take no bull from your house" : feminist biblical theology in a creational context / Jacqueline E. Lapsley

Feminist biblical interpretation : how far do we yet have to go? / Elna Mouton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Feminist frameworks

ISBN:

9780567671578

0567671577

OCLC:

979564247