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About this book
Recent biblical studies, especially feminist interpretations, evince keen awareness of how the constitutive role of the contextual realities--for example, race, class, and gender--of the texts but also of the interpreters themselves, shapes our readings and the range of questions and insights they yield. With critical awareness of these realities, whole new vistas open up on the Bible and its world.
First Samuel presents a surprisingly fruitful test case for such interpretations, shedding important light on this historical narrative and our reading of it in a world of ethnic, geopolitical, and gender turbulence.
In alignment with the insights of intersectional biblical hermeneutics, Scholz's conceptual feminist approach to 1 Samuel advances five key thematic areas. They include the geopolitics of land and gender, the variously positioned male characters, the depicted governance model of the monarchy, the ethnonational stereotypes embedded in references to the (male) Philistines, and the inscription and erasure of female characters as mothers, wives, daughters, unnamed women, and witch.
Most feminist biblical criticism has centered on female figures in the Bible or reconstructing the situations of women in that world. This work is different: It focuses on the convergence of gender relations, geopolitics, emerging nationalisms, and archaeology and history--both then and now, in the world of the text and in the interpreter's own world. Equally alert to the telling details and the unquestioned assumptions of our reading, the result is a fully critical and radically self-aware encounter with the text, its context, and its reverberations in our own day.
Scholz's strikingly insightful analysis sets a new standard for interpreting 1 Samuel and indeed for approaching biblical studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: On a Conceptual Feminist Interpretation of 1 Samuel
- Chapter 1: Detailing the Geopolitics of Land and Gender
- Chapter 2: Displaying the Masculinities of Major and Minor Male Characters
- Chapter 3: Determining the Specter of Monarchy at the End of Democracy
- Chapter 4: Decolonizing Foreskin Talk About the Nation and the Philistines
- Chapter 5: Detecting the Erasure of Women and the Inscription of a Witch
- Conclusion: Knowing, Deconstructing, and Resisting as Feminist Exegetical Practice
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index of Biblical and Related Texts
- Index of Authors