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The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible brings together 37 essential essays written by leading international scholars, examining crucial points of analysis within the field of feminist Hebrew Bible studies. Organized into four major areas - globalization, neoliberalism, media, and intersectionality - the essays collectively provide vibrant, relevant, and innovative contributions to the field.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- PART 1
- THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL STUDIES
- 1 Biblical Interpretation and Kyriarchal Globalization
- 2 The Bible and Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective
- 3 Catholic Androcentric Bible Translations as Global Missionary Tools?
- 4 Feminist Bible Translations in African Contexts
- 5 Queer Bible Readings in Global Hermeneutical Perspective
- 6 Sexual Diversity and Bible in Africa
- 7 Empire and Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Korea
- 8 Reading the Bible from Below in the Era of Globalization
- 9 Toward an African Feminist Ethics and the Book of Proverbs
- 10 Lament as Womanist Healing in Times of Global Violence
- PART 2
- THE IMPACT OF NEOLIBERALISM ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION
- 11 Neoliberal Feminist Scholarship in Biblical Studies
- 12 Justifying (Feminist) Biblical Studies in a Neoliberal Age
- 13 European Feminist Biblical Scholarship in the Neoliberal Era
- 14 Neoliberalism and Queer Theory in Biblical Readings
- 15 Biblical Border Slippage and Feminist Postcolonial Criticism
- 16 On the Development of a Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics of Migration
- PART 3
- THE IMPACT OF (DIGITAL) MEDIA CULTURES ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL EXEGESIS
- 17 The Bible, Women, and Video Games
- 18 Gaming with Rahab and the Spies
- 19 Ecofeminist Biblical Hermeneutics for Cyborgs and the Story of Jezebel
- 20 Sexuality, Stoning, and Supersessionism in Post-World War II Biblical Epic Films
- 21 Noah Narratives, Gender Issues, and the Hollywood Hermeneutic
- 22 Mediating Dinah's Story in Film
- 23 Exploring Biblical Women in Music
- 24 Hagar in Nineteenth-Century Southern Women's Novels
- 25 Bathsheba in Contemporary Romance Novels
- 26 Teaching the Bible and Popular Media as Part of Contemporary Rape Culture
- PART 4
- THE EMERGENCE OF INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST READINGS
- 27 Gender and the Heterarchy Alternative for Re-Modeling Ancient Israel
- 28 Retrieving the History of Women Biblical Interpreters
- 29 A Queer Critique of Looking for "Male" and "Female" Voices in the Hebrew Bible
- 30 Queering Delilah with Critical Theory and Gendered Bible Hermeneutics
- 31 Examining Scripture in Light of Trans Women's Voices
- 32 Feminist Egalitarian Biblical Interpretation and the Christian Right
- 33 Animal Studies, Feminism, and Biblical Interpretation
- 34 A Multidimensional Approach in Feminist Ecological Biblical Studies
- 35 Sarah and Hagar in Art and Interfaith Dialogue
- 36 Norwegian Muslim and Christian Feminists Reading the Hagar Narratives
- 37 Intertextual Femininity in the Book of Proverbs and the Dao de Jing
- Index of Biblical References
About the author
Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. As a diasporic German-American feminist post-Holocaust scholar, she researches, writes, and teaches in the area of sacred text studies, primarily in Hebrew Bible studies.
