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Womanist Interpretations of the Bible

Author: Gay L. Byron

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2016-11-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781628371529

Expand the discourse and open the spheres of engagement to include new voices of scholars and bold, innovative interpretive approaches This edited volume brings together cross-generational and cross-cultural readings of the Bible and other sacred sources by including scholars from the Caribbean, India, and Africa who have not traditionally fit into the narrow U.S., African American paradigm for understanding womanist biblical interpretation. The volume engages the reader in a wide range of interdisciplinary methods and perspectives, such as gender and feminist criticism, social-scientific methods, post-colonial and psychoanalytical theory that emphasize the inherently intersectional dynamics of race, ethnicity, and class at work in womanist thought and analysis. Features Topics include the Black Lives Matter movement, domestic violence, and AIDS, while at the same time uncovering the roles of children, women, and other marginalized persons in biblical narratives Coverage of Hebrew Bible and New Testament texts, as well as Ifa spiritual narratives, Hindu scripture, and Ethiopic texts Responses from four respected womanist and feminist critics: Katherine Doob Sakenfeld, Emilie Townes, Layli (Phillips) Maparyan, and Sarojini Nadar

An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation

Author: Nyasha Junior

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0664259871

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An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation provides a much-needed introduction to womanist approaches to biblical interpretation. It argues that womanist biblical interpretation is not simply a byproduct of feminist biblical interpretation but part of a distinctive tradition of African American women's engagement with biblical texts. While womanist biblical interpretation is relatively new in the development of academic biblical studies, African American women are not newcomers to biblical interpretation. Written in an accessible style, this volume highlights the importance of both the Bible and race in the development of feminism and the emergence of womanism. It provides a history of feminist biblical interpretation and discusses the current state of womanist biblical interpretation as well as critical issues related to its development and future. Although some African American women identify themselves as "womanists," the term, its usage, its features, and its connection to feminism remain widely misunderstood. This excellent textbook is perfect for helping to introduce readers to the development and applications of womanist biblical interpretation.

Wisdom Ways

Author: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2015-02-25

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1608332527

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Womanist Interpretations of the Bible

Author: Gay L. Byron

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2016-11-04

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0884141845

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Womanist Sass and Talk Back

Author: Mitzi J. Smith

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1498288871

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Womanist Sass and Talk Back is a contextual resistance text for readers interested in social (in)justice. Smith raises our consciousness about pressing contemporary social (in)justice issues that impact communities of color and the larger society. Systemic or structural oppression and injustices, police profiling and brutality, oppressive pedagogy, and gendered violence are placed in dialogue with sacred (con)texts. This book provides fresh intersectional readings of sacred (con)texts that are accessible to both scholars and nonscholars. Womanist Sass and Talk Back is for readers interested in critical interpretations of sacred (con)texts (ancient and contemporary) and in propagating the justice and love of God while engaging those (con)texts.

Transforming Scriptures

Author: Katherine Clay Bassard

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 082033880X

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Transforming Scriptures is the first sustained treatment of African American women writers' intellectual, even theological, engagements with the book Northrop Frye referred to as the “great code” of Western civilization. Katherine Clay Bassard discusses how such texts respond as a collective “literary witness” to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination.

I Found God in Me

Author: Mitzi J. Smith

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2015-02-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 162564745X

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I Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have access, in one volume, to articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as cutting-edge womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars. This book is an excellent resource for women of color, pastors, and seminarians interested in relevant readings of the biblical text, as well as scholars and teachers teaching courses in womanist biblical hermeneutics, feminist interpretation, African American hermeneutics, and biblical courses that value diversity and dialogue as crucial to excellent pedagogy.

Lamentations

Author: Gina Hens-Piazza

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0814681549

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Feminist biblical interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now makes possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It is our hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current feminist biblical scholarship available in an accessible format ... will aid readers in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity, equality, and justice for all. - Book jacket.

Womanist Midrash

Author: Wilda C. Gafney

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1611648122

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Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her own translations, Gafney offers a midrashic interpretation of the biblical text that is rooted in the African American preaching tradition to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Gafney employs a solid understanding of womanist and feminist approaches to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical culture of the ancient Near East. This unique and imaginative work is grounded in serious scholarship and will expand conversations about feminist and womanist biblical interpretation.

Feminist Interpretation of the Bible

Author: Letty M. Russell

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780664246396

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Essays discuss women's role in the church, the interpretation of Scripture, the use of Biblical materials, women in the Bible, female sexuality, battered women, and Biblical authority