Feminist Interpretation

Feminist Interpretation
Author: Luise Schottroff
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1998
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780800629991

In the hundred years since The Women's Bible, giant strides have been made in feminist interpretation of the Bible. Now comes the first comprehensive overview of the whole field. The authors systematically recount those efforts to describe the story of women in both testaments, to uncover tendencies not supportive of women, and to describe biblical traditions that empower women. The book unfolds in three parts: -- Historical, Hermeneutical, and Methodological Foundations-- Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of the History of Israel-- Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Early Christianity

Feminist Theory and the Bible

Feminist Theory and the Bible
Author: Esther Fuchs
Publisher: Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781498527811

Feminist Theory and the Bible conceptualizes, contextualizes, and maps a new kind of burgeoning scholarship that has emerged in recent decades. The chapters included here consider both the theory and practice of feminist Biblical studies.

Feminist Theory and the Bible

Feminist Theory and the Bible
Author: Esther Fuchs
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498527825

Feminist Theory and the Bible: Interrogating the Sources conceptualizes, contextualizes and maps a new kind of burgeoning scholarship that has grown up in recent decades. This scholarship emerged in the margins of Feminist Studies and Biblical Studies and has yet to find a foothold in either one of these more established contexts. In this book, Esther Fuchs argues that in order to find an enduring, stable place in the academe, this scholarship requires a theoretical perspective. Biblical Studies as a whole has not yet been sufficiently theorized as an academic field, and currently consists of multiple disciplines relying for the most part on traditional scholarly discourses. In this regard, Feminist Biblical Studies is both a departure from and an important supplement to both Feminist Studies and Biblical Studies.

Jesus Feminist

Jesus Feminist
Author: Sarah Bessey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1476717575

Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences. A freedom song for the church. Sarah Bessey didn’t ask for Jesus to come in and mess up all her ideas about a woman’s place in the world and in the church. But patriarchy, she came to learn, was not God’s dream for humanity. Bessey engages critically with Scripture in this gentle and provocative love letter to the Church. Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences. It’s at once a call to find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ, and a very personal and moving story of how Jesus made a feminist out of her.

Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World

Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World
Author: Linda Day
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0664229107

In highly accessible essays, the book covers the history, achievements, and cutting-edge questions in the area of gender and biblical scholarship, including violence and the Bible, female biblical God imagery, and sexuality."--Jacket.

Reading the Bible as a Feminist

Reading the Bible as a Feminist
Author: Jennifer L. Koosed
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004349634

This work provides a brief introduction to feminist interpretation of scripture. Feminist interpretation is first grounded in feminism as an intellectual and political movement. Next, this introduction briefly recounts the origins of feminist readings of the Bible with attention to both early readings and the beginnings of feminist biblical scholarship in the academy. Feminist biblical scholarship is not a single methodology, but rather an approach that can shape any reading method. As a discipline, it began with literary-critical readings (especially of the Hebrew Bible) but soon also broached questions of women’s history (especially in the New Testament and Christian origins). Since these first forays, feminist interpretation has influenced almost every type of biblical scholarship. The third section of this essay, then, looks at gender archaeology, feminist poststructuralism and postcolonial readings, and newer approaches informed by gender and queer theory. Finally, it ends by examining feminist readings of Eve.

Feminist Interpretation of the Bible

Feminist Interpretation of the Bible
Author: Letty M. Russell
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664246396

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

A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther

A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther
Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 273
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567475123

The second series of Feminist Companions moves beyond the confines of sex- and gender-specific issues and studies of biblical women. Biblical feminist critics now address contemporary life situations, marginalization and a range of questions once not thought accessible to such critique. Feminist theory has also continued a rapid evolution. Among the topics included in this volume are composition, Torah, Ruth-the-Cat, female networking-together with much else to inform and stimulate female (and male) biblical scholars and non-scholars.

Women's Bible Commentary

Women's Bible Commentary
Author: Carol Ann Newsom
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664257811

In the critically acclaimed best-seller,Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women's and biblical studies.