Synopses & Reviews
This volume is an engaging and provocative collection of essays on contemporary feminist biblical studies. Drawing upon their own social, cultural, and religious backgrounds and experiences, contributors read the New Testament as feminists, placing it in the context of globalization. These biblical interpretations cast gender, race, class, and power relationships as issues inherent in both the content and context of scripture. Calling into question feminist social engagement that does not extend beyond academic halls, churches, and Christians,
Feminist New Testament Studies offers new directions for future research and teaching in feminist biblical studies.
Review
"The contributors to this volume provide us with valuable resources and models to help students envision biblical studies in a critical and ethically responsible way. They carefully assess biblical studies and its relationship to women in all cultural contexts around the world and also dare to offer new interpretations for all of us."--Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt University, author of
Ethics of Biblical Interpretation and general editor
of Global Bible Commentary.
Synopsis
This volume is an engaging and provocative collection of essays on contemporary feminist biblical studies. Drawing upon their own social, cultural, and religious backgrounds and experiences, contributors read the New Testament as feminists, placing it in the context of globalization. These biblical interpretations cast gender, race, class, and power relationships as issues inherent in both the content and context of scripture. Calling into question feminist social engagement that does not extend beyond academic halls, churches, and Christians,
Feminist New Testament Studies offers new directions for future research and teaching in feminist biblical studies.
Synopsis
This volume is an engaging and provocative introduction to Feminist Biblical Studies. The authors draw upon their own social, cultural and religious backgrounds and experiences in reading the New Testament as feminists in the context of globalization. They provide intentional interpretations of biblical texts that cast gender, race, class and power relationships as issues inherent in both the content and context of scripture and its interpretation. The essays call into question feminist social engagement that does not extend beyond academic halls, churches and Christians, suggesting directions for future research and teaching in Feminist Biblical Studies.
Synopsis
A collection of essays that provide important and diverse perspectives on current and future research and teaching of feminist new testament studies in global contexts
About the Author
Kathleen O'Brien Wicker is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, Scripps College and Adjunct Professor, Claremont Graduate University.
Althea Spencer Miller is Adjunct Professor, Scripps College.
Musa W. Dube is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Botswana.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments--Kathleen OBrien Wicker * Introduction--Althea Spencer-Miller *
Conversation I: Europe & North America * The Power of the Word: Charting Critical Global Feminist New Testament Studies--Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza * Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique--Elizabeth Castelli * Response--Sheila Briggs * The Challenge of ‘Blackness” for Rearticulating the Meaning of Global Feminist New Testament Interpretation--Gay L. Byron * Response: Paradoxes of Positionality: The Key to Feminist New Testament Studies--Karen J. Torjesen * Reflections on Conversation I--Sonya Gravlee, Erin Jacklin, Prinny Perelman *
Conversation II: Asia & Latin America * My Journey as a Latin American Feminist New Testament Scholar--Aída Besançon Spencer * Response--Elizabeth Conde Frazier * Biblical Studies in the 21st Century: A Japanese/Asian Feminist Glimpse--Hisako Kinukawa * Response--Zhiru Ng * Feminist Theologies in Latin America--Rosemary Radford Ruether * Reflections on Conversation II--Holly Hight, Lydia Sohn *
Conversation III: Africa & the Diaspora * Rahab is Hanging Out a Red Ribbon: One African Womans Perspective on the Future of Feminist New Testament Scholarship--Musa W. Dube * Response: From Scarlet Cord to Red Ribbon: A Perilous Passage--Isabel Balseiro * Lucy Bailey Meets the Feminists--Althea Spencer-Miller * Response--Lincoln E. Galloway * Signifying on Scriptures: An African Diaspora Proposal for Radical Readings--incent L. Wimbush * Reflections on Conversation III--Noelle Champagne, Filiberto Nolasco & Katrina Van Heest