Feminist frameworks and the Bible: power, ambiguity and intersectionality
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Celebrating Intersectionality, Interrogating -- Part I Retrospect -- Chapter 2 Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Have We Come? -- Notes -- Part II Celebrating Inters...
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Celebrating Intersectionality, Interrogating -- Part I Retrospect -- Chapter 2 Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Have We Come? -- Notes -- Part II Celebrating Intersectionality -- Chapter 3 An Abigail Optic: Agency, Resistance, and Discernment in 1 Samuel 25 -- Embracing Intersectionality -- Seeing Abigail -- Seeing as Abigail -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Dinah (Genesis 34) At the Contact Zone: "Shall Our Sister Become a Whore?" -- Introduction: Colonial Contexts, Race, and Sexual Violence -- From Cape Colony to Shechem -- Genesis 34: Dinah, the Daughter of Leah and Jacob -- Some Feminist Readings of Dinah's Story -- My Social Location and Reading Practices -- Historical and Discursive Imperialism -- Divine Authorization to Travel to Foreign Lands -- The Characterization of the Other -- Reading Dinah's Body/Story -- Now Enter Dinah and Shechem! -- Dinah, Tamar, and Rahab -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Jezebel and the Feminine Divine in Feminist Postcolonial Focus -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The "Foreign" Women in Ezra-Nehemiah: Intersectional Perspectives on Ethnicity -- Reflections on My Approach -- Intermarriage in Nehemiah 13 -- Nehemiah's Provisions against Intermarriage (Neh 13:23-31) -- Reading Nehemiah 13:13-24 Intersectionally -- The Crisis Regarding Intermarriage in the Time of Ezra -- Introduction to the Situation (Ezra 9:1-5 -- 10:1) -- Ezra's Prayer Acknowledges the Guilt (Ezra 9:6-15) -- An Oath as Solution (Ezra 10:2-6) -- Generating a List as Solution (Ezra 10:7-44) -- Reading Ezra 9-10 Intersectionally -- Reading the Story from Different Perspectives -- Notes -- Part III Interrogating Power -- Chapter 7 The Violence of Power and the Power of Violence: Hybrid, Contextual Perspectives on the Book of Esther. Toward a Hybrid, Contextual Theoretical Framework of Feminist Biblical Studies -- The Challenges of a Biblical Book -- Structures of Power and Violence I-Image of the Persian Empire -- Structures of Power and Violence II-Genocide -- Structures of Power and Violence III-Massacre -- Notes -- Chapter 8 "Is There a Man Here?": The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove in Judges 4 -- Jael in Judges 4 -- Winnie in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom -- In Front of the Collective Reflective Surface -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Miriam and Moses's Cushite Wife: Sisterhood in Jeopardy? -- A Feminist Framework from the Margins -- Miriam, the Sister-in-Law? -- Mixed Marriage in the Old Testament -- Miriam in Relationship -- Mixed Marriage in South Africa-a Brief Sociohistorical Overview -- Feminist Biblical Criticism and Sisterhood-a Way Forward -- Notes -- Part IV Embracing Ambiguity -- Chapter 10 Is This Naomi? A Feminist Reading of the Ambiguity of Naomi in the Book of Ruth -- Feminist Methodological Considerations -- Diaspora Changes the Indigene: Naomi as Ambiguous -- Naomi the Theologian -- Naomi and Ruth: The Economy of Exploitation -- Ideological Consequences -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Stuck between the Waiting Room and the Reconfigured Levirate Entity?: Reading Ruth in Marriage-Obsessed African Chri -- South Africa as Social Location -- Why the Book of Ruth? -- The Bosadi (Womanhood-Redefined) Approach to Biblical Texts -- Reading from a Contemporary African Context -- Reimagining and Reconstructing Levirate Marriage in the Book of Ruth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Daughters, Priests, and Patrilineage: A Feminist and Gender-Critical Interpretation of the End of the Book of Number -- Opening Reflections: A Retrospective -- Gender in Numbers -- Feminist (or, at Least, Gender-Oriented) Interpretations -- Feminist and Geographical Interpretations: An Intersection Priests, Law, and Community Leadership in Postexilic Yehud -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 13 "I Will Take No Bull from Your House": Feminist Biblical Theology in a Creational Context -- Creational Dignity and Psalm 50 -- Human and Nonhuman Animals in Cosmic Context -- Christian Anthropocentrism -- A Cosmocentric Hermeneutic of Creational Dignity -- Flourishing and Cosmocentrism -- "I Will Take No Bull from Your House": Psalm 50 -- Notes -- Part V Postscript -- Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Do We Yet Have To Go? -- Agency, Resistance, Discernment -- Embracing Ambiguity, Celebrating Intersectionality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Scripture Texts |
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| ISBN: | 0567671585 |