Feminist Frameworks and the Bible - Power, Ambiguity, and Intersectionality

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.>

About the author

L. Juliana Claassens is Professor in Old Testament and Head of the Gender Unit at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University. Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School, USA.

Product details

• Authors: L Juliana Claassens, L. Juliana (University of Stellenbosch Claassens, Carolyn J Sharp, Carolyn J. Sharp
• Assisted by: Juliana Claassens (Editor), L. Juliana Claassens (Editor), L. Juliana (University of Stellenbosch Claassens (Editor), Prof L. Juliana (University of Stellenbosch Claassens (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor), Carolyn J. Sharp (Editor), Carolyn J. (Yale Divinity School Sharp (Editor), Professor Carolyn J. (Yale Divinity School Sharp (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2017
• EAN: 9780567671578
• ISBN: 978-0-567-67157-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Criminal Practice Series; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity