Feminist Frameworks and the Bible

L. Juliana Claassens is Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School, USA.

This excellent resource not only showcases what feminist and postcolonial biblical scholars are now doing but also helps readers who are not adept at using these approaches to further develop their expertise… This book is highly recommended for scholars and advanced students of the Bible.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsINTRODUCTION1. Celebrating Intersectionality, Interrogating Power, and Embracing Ambiguity as Feminist Critical Practices -- L. Juliana Claassens, University of Stelenbosch, South Africa and Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USARETROSPECT 2. Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Have We Come? -- Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Princeton Theological Seminary, USACELEBRATING INTERSECTIONALITY3. An Abigail Optic: Agency, Resistance, and Discernment in 1 Samuel 25 -- L. Juliana Claassens, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa4. Dinah (Genesis 34) at the Contact Zone: “Shall Our Sister Become a Whore?” --Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana5. Jezebel and the Feminine Divine in Feminist Postcolonial Focus --Judith E. McKinlay, University of Otago, New Zealand 6. The “Foreign” Women in Ezra-Nehemiah: Intersectional Perspectives on Ethnicity --Christl M. Maier, University of Marburg, GermanyINTERROGATING POWER7. The Violence of Power and the Power of Violence: Hybrid, Contextual Perspectives on the Book of Esther -- Marie-Theres Wacker, Westfälische-Wilhems University, Germany8. “Is There a Man Here?” The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove in Judges 4 --Charlene van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa9. Miriam and Moses’s Cushite Wife: Sisterhood in Jeopardy?Funlola Olojede -- University of Stellenbosch, South AfricaEMBRACING AMBIGUITY10. Is This Naomi? A Feminist Reading of the Ambiguity of Naomi in the Book of Ruth --Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USA11. Stuck Between the Waiting Room and the Reconfigured Levirate Entity? Reading Ruth in Marriage-Obsessed African Christian Contexts -- Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele), University of South Africa, South Africa 12. Daughters, Priests, and Patrilineage: A Feminist and Gender-Critical Interpretation of the End of the Book of Numbers -- Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University, USA13. “I Will Take No Bull from Your House”: Feminist Biblical Theology in a Creational Context -- Jacqueline E. Lapsley, Princeton Theological Seminary, USAPOSTSCRIPT14. Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Do We Yet Have To Go? -- Elna Mouton, University of Stellenbosch, South AfricaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex