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Feminist Frameworks and the Bible: Power, Ambiguity, and Intersectionality by Prof L. Juliana Claassens (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

This volume on intercultural biblical interpretation includes essays by feminist scholars from Botswana, Germany, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States. Reading from a rich variety of socio-cultural locations, contributors present their hermeneutical frameworks for interpretation of Hebrew Bible texts, each framework grounded in the writer's journey of professional or social formation and serving as a prism or optic for feminist critical analysis. 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.

Feminist Frameworks and the Bible Reviews

This excellent resource not only showcases what feminist and postcolonial biblical scholars are now doing but also helps readers who are not adept at using these approaches to further develop their expertise... This book is highly recommended for scholars and advanced students of the Bible. * Catholic Biblical Quarterly *

About Prof L. Juliana Claassens (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

L. Juliana Claassens is Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1. Celebrating Intersectionality, Interrogating Power, and Embracing Ambiguity as Feminist Critical Practices -- L. Juliana Claassens, University of Stelenbosch, South Africa and Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USA RETROSPECT 2. Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Have We Come? -- Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA CELEBRATING INTERSECTIONALITY 3. An Abigail Optic: Agency, Resistance, and Discernment in 1 Samuel 25 -- L. Juliana Claassens, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa 4. Dinah (Genesis 34) at the Contact Zone: Shall Our Sister Become a Whore? -- Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana 5. Jezebel and the Feminine Divine in Feminist Postcolonial Focus -- Judith E. McKinlay, University of Otago, New Zealand 6. The Foreign Women in Ezra-Nehemiah: Intersectional Perspectives on Ethnicity -- Christl M. Maier, University of Marburg, Germany INTERROGATING POWER 7. The Violence of Power and the Power of Violence: Hybrid, Contextual Perspectives on the Book of Esther -- Marie-Theres Wacker, Westfalische-Wilhems University, Germany 8. Is There a Man Here? The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove in Judges 4 -- Charlene van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa 9. Miriam and Moses's Cushite Wife: Sisterhood in Jeopardy? Funlola Olojede -- University of Stellenbosch, South Africa EMBRACING AMBIGUITY 10. Is This Naomi? A Feminist Reading of the Ambiguity of Naomi in the Book of Ruth -- Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USA 11. Stuck Between the Waiting Room and the Reconfigured Levirate Entity? Reading Ruth in Marriage-Obsessed African Christian Contexts -- Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele), University of South Africa, South Africa 12. Daughters, Priests, and Patrilineage: A Feminist and Gender-Critical Interpretation of the End of the Book of Numbers -- Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University, USA 13. I Will Take No Bull from Your House: Feminist Biblical Theology in a Creational Context -- Jacqueline E. Lapsley, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA POSTSCRIPT 14. Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Do We Yet Have To Go? -- Elna Mouton, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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NLS9780567688088
9780567688088
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Feminist Frameworks and the Bible: Power, Ambiguity, and Intersectionality by Prof L. Juliana Claassens (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2019-04-18
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