Feminist Frameworks and the Bible

This volume on intercultural biblical interpretation includes essays by feminist scholars from Botswana Germany New Zealand Nigeria South Africa and the United States. Reading from a rich variety of socio-cultural locations contributors present their hermeneutical frameworks for interpretation of Hebrew Bible texts each framework grounded in the writer's journey of professional or social formation and serving as a prism or optic for feminist critical analysis. <br/><br/>The volume hosts a lively conversation about the nature and significance of biblical interpretation in a global context focusing on issues at the nexus of operations of power textual ambiguity and intersectionality.<b> </b>Engaged here are notions of biblical authority and postures of dissent; women's agency discernment rivalry and alliance in ancient and contemporary contexts; ideological constructions of sexuality and power; interpretations related to indigeneity racial identity interethnic intimacy and violence in colonial contexts; theologies of the feminine divine and feminist understandings of the sacred; convictions about interdependence and conditions of flourishing for all beings in creation; and ethics of resistance positioned over against dehumanization in political theological and hermeneutical praxes. Through their textual and contextual engagements contributors articulate a broad spectrum of feminist insights into the possibilities for emancipatory visions of community.