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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible brings together 37 essential essays written by leading international scholars, examining crucial points of analysis within the field of feminist Hebrew Bible studies. Organized into four major areas - globalization, neoliberalism, media, and intersectionality - the essays collectively provide vibrant, relevant, and innovative contributions to the field. The topics of analysis focus heavily on gender and queer identity, with essays touching on African, Korean, and European feminist hermeneutics, womanist and interreligious readings, ecofeminist and animal biblical studies, migration biblical studies, the role of gender binary voices in evangelical-egalitarian approaches, and the examination of scripture in light of trans women''s voices. The volume also includes essays examining the Old Testament as recited in music, literature, film, and video games. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible charts a cu
Trade ReviewThis collection is a veritable who's who in biblical scholarship—Adele Reinhartz, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Esther Fuchs, Carol Meyers, to name just a few. Eco-feminist poet Anne Elvey pushes the disciplinary horizons with her expansive essay. Kudos to the editor for this valuable volume. * waterwomensalliance.org *
diverse and thought-provoking * ROSALIE Ní MHAOLDOMHNAIGH, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *
... Scholz has collated multivalent voices whose essays "offer conceptual and exegetical ways forward" (lii); thus contributors present insightful ideas for future explorations, offering multiple jumping-off points rather than final says. * Megan Fullerton Strollo, Union Presbyterian Seminary *
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible is an important collection, with essays that will benefit specialists and generalists alike. * John W. Herbst, Reading Religion *
The Handbook includes interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, interreligious, and artistic readings of biblical texts, connecting feminist, womanist, queer, and otherwise gender-just biblical scholarship to racism, classism, homophobia, heteronormativity, phallogocentrism, geopolitics, sexual violence, and environmental degradation. * Carol J.Dempsey, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction PART 1 THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL STUDIES 1 Biblical Interpretation and Kyriarchal Globalization 2 The Bible and Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective 3 Catholic Androcentric Bible Translations as Global Missionary Tools? 4 Feminist Bible Translations in African Contexts 5 Queer Bible Readings in Global Hermeneutical Perspective 6 Sexual Diversity and Bible in Africa 7 Empire and Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Korea 8 Reading the Bible from Below in the Era of Globalization 9 Toward an African Feminist Ethics and the Book of Proverbs 10 Lament as Womanist Healing in Times of Global Violence PART 2 THE IMPACT OF NEOLIBERALISM ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION 11 Neoliberal Feminist Scholarship in Biblical Studies 12 Justifying (Feminist) Biblical Studies in a Neoliberal Age 13 European Feminist Biblical Scholarship in the Neoliberal Era 14 Neoliberalism and Queer Theory in Biblical Readings 15 Biblical Border Slippage and Feminist Postcolonial Criticism 16 On the Development of a Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics of Migration PART 3 THE IMPACT OF (DIGITAL) MEDIA CULTURES ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL EXEGESIS 17 The Bible, Women, and Video Games 18 Gaming with Rahab and the Spies 19 Ecofeminist Biblical Hermeneutics for Cyborgs and the Story of Jezebel 20 Sexuality, Stoning, and Supersessionism in Post-World War II Biblical Epic Films 21 Noah Narratives, Gender Issues, and the Hollywood Hermeneutic 22 Mediating Dinah>'s Story in Film 23 Exploring Biblical Women in Music 24 Hagar in Nineteenth-Century Southern Women>'s Novels 25 Bathsheba in Contemporary Romance Novels 26 Teaching the Bible and Popular Media as Part of Contemporary Rape Culture PART 4 THE EMERGENCE OF INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST READINGS 27 Gender and the Heterarchy Alternative for Re-Modeling Ancient Israel 28 Retrieving the History of Women Biblical Interpreters 29 A Queer Critique of Looking for 's Voices 32 Feminist Egalitarian Biblical Interpretation and the Christian Right 33 Animal Studies, Feminism, and Biblical Interpretation 34 A Multidimensional Approach in Feminist Ecological Biblical Studies 35 Sarah and Hagar in Art and Interfaith Dialogue 36 Norwegian Muslim and Christian Feminists Reading the Hagar Narratives 37 Intertextual Femininity in the Book of Proverbs and the Dao de Jing Index of Biblical References
