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Book SynopsisChristl M. Maier is Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.
Carolyn J. Sharp is Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School, USA.
Table of ContentsIntroduction -
Christl M. Maier and
Carolyn J. Sharp 1. Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism -
Judith E. McKinlay 2. Mapping Jeremiah as/in a Feminist Landscape: Negotiating Ancient and Contemporary Terrains -
Carolyn J. Sharp 3. Commentary as Memoir? Reflections on Writing/Reading War and Hegemony in Jeremiah and in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy -
Louis Stulman 4. After the “One-Man Show”: Multi-authored and Multi-voiced Commentary Writing -
Christl M. Maier 5. Jeremiah “Before the Womb”: On Fathers, Sons, and the Telos of Redaction in Jeremiah 1-
Yosefa Raz 6. “The Stain of Your Guilt is Still Before Me” (Jer 2:22): (Feminist) Approaches to Jeremiah 2 and the Problem of Normativity -
Else K. Holt 7. “Like a Woman in Labor”: Gender, Postcolonial, Queer and Trauma Perspectives on the Book of Jeremiah -
L. Juliana Claassens 8. God’s Cruelty and Jeremiah’s Treason: Jer 21:1-10 in Postcolonial Perspective -
Christl M. Maier 9. Buying Land in the Text of Jeremiah: Feminist Commentary, the Kristevan Abject, and Jeremiah 32 -
Carolyn J. Sharp 10. The Prophet and His Patsy: Gender Performativity in Jeremiah -
Stuart Macwilliam 11. “Exoticizing the Otter”: The Curious Case of the Rechabites in Jeremiah 35 -
Steed Vernyl Davidson 12. The Silent Goddess and the Gendering of Divine Speech in Jeremiah 44 -
James E. Harding 13.A Response by Walter Brueggemann 14.A Response by Irmtraud Fischer Bibliography Author Index Scripture Index
