Feminist Interpretation Of The Bible

Silvia Schroer, Sophia Bietenhard

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN: 9780826466891
• eBook ISBN: 9780567227188
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Since its origins in the women's liberation movement, feminist exegesis has been subject not only to the demand to identify the oppressive functions of biblical texts but also to contribute to the liberation of women. What biblical texts can serve this process of liberation-for which women, under what conditions, and in what manner? What roles do categories such as woman, gender, liberation, freedom, Holy Scripture, church, and theology play?
This book originated from a symposium with feminist biblical experts from over twenty countries from five continents. It provides a striking and imaginative depiction of the questions central to feminist exegesis and the hermeneutics of liberation. It also provides a lively example of the kind of global discussion of the Bible and liberation that can take place among women from around the world. Typical of this discussion is the confrontation with questions such as contextuality or the diversity of feminist biblical interpretation (whether of theological or non-theological nature), and clear positions are taken with regard to issues such as the termination of anti-Judaism in feminist biblical interpretation or the dangers of neo-colonial domination in feminist-theological studies.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• List of contributors
• 'We Will Know Each Other by Our Fruits': Feminist Exegesis and the Hermeneutics of Liberation
• Proverbs 31 in a New Interpretation (A Story Told by Renita Weems, USA)
• Re-Reading for Liberation: African American Women and the Bible
• Helping Each Other to Think (A Series of Propositions in Retrospect by Viola Raheb, Palestine)
• Some Reflections on Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics for Liberation
• Changing Seasons: About the Bible and Other Sacred Texts in Latin America
• Joshua 2: Spies Sent to Jericho
• Jumping the Fire with Judith: Postcolonial Feminist Hermeneutics of Liberation
• Feminist Biblical Interpretation and the Hermeneutics of Liberation: An African Woman's Perspective
• The Book of Ruth and a Group of Prostitutes in Costa Rica (A Story Told by Irene Foulkes, Costa Rica)
• Women in Contemporary Palestinian Society: A Contextual Reading of the Book of Ruth
• A Secular, Jewish, Feminist Look at the Bible
• Highlights: Selected Statements from the Oral Discussions
• The Stolen Bible
• Freedom, Liberation and Context as Hermeneutical Tasks
• The Beautiful Princess and the Village Girls: The Power of Difference in the Intercultural Relations of Feminist Theologians
• Women and War in India (A Historical Event from the Ninth Century Recounted by Stella Baltazar, India)
• The Sun, the Woman and the Peacock (A Story Told by Stella Baltazar, India)
• When Women Unite! Celebrate Our Differences as the Cause of Our Unity
• The Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation from the Perspective of Asian Christian Women: Recovering the Liberation-Tradition of Early Christianity in Korea
• The Question of Social Location and Postcolonial Feminist Hermeneutics of Liberation