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

This volume explores feminist interpretations of the Hebrew Bible from diverse socio-cultural perspectives, highlighting issues of power, textual ambiguity, and intersectionality. It discusses women's agency, sexuality, indigeneity, and violence, and offers emancipatory visions of community.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 18 April 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This comprehensive volume on intercultural biblical interpretation features a diverse array of essays by feminist scholars hailing from Botswana, Germany, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States. Drawing from a wide range of socio-cultural backgrounds, the contributors present their unique hermeneutical frameworks for interpreting Hebrew Bible texts, each rooted in their personal journey of professional or social formation and serving as a lens through which feminist critical analysis can be observed. The volume serves as a vibrant forum for exploring the nature and significance of biblical interpretation in a global context, with a particular focus on the intersections of power, textual ambiguity, and intersectionality.

Within this engaging discourse, notions of biblical authority are examined, including discussions on the authority. The agency of women, their discernment, rivalries, alliances, and their roles in ancient and contemporary contexts are explored. Ideological constructions of sexuality and power are analyzed, as well as interpretations related to indigeneity, racial identity, interethnic intimacy, and violence in colonial contexts. Theologies of the feminine divine and feminist understandings of the sacred are examined, as are convictions about interdependence and the conditions for flourishing for all beings in creation. Ethical frameworks of resistance are positioned against dehumanization in political, theological, and hermeneutical practices.

Through their textual and contextual engagements, the contributors articulate a wide spectrum of feminist insights into the possibilities for emancipatory visions of community. This volume offers valuable contributions to the field of biblical interpretation, shedding light on the ways in which feminist perspectives can enrich our understanding of the Bible and its relevance to contemporary social and political issues.

Weight: 422g
Dimension: 156 x 233 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780567688088