Womanist Interpretations Of The Bible

Author : Gay L. Byron
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 9781628371529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Womanist Interpretations of the Bible written by Gay L. Byron and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Nyasha Junior
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 0664259871
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation written by Nyasha Junior and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gay L. Byron
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884141845
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Womanist Interpretations of the Bible written by Gay L. Byron and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608332527
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom Ways written by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mitzi J. Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498288871
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Womanist Sass and Talk Back written by Mitzi J. Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Katherine Clay Bassard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033880X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Scriptures written by Katherine Clay Bassard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gina Hens-Piazza
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814681794
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamentations written by Gina Hens-Piazza and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the five poems of Lamentations undoubtedly refer to the Babylonian siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BCE, the multiple voices that narrate unspeakable suffering and labor to make sense of the surrounding horror do so at women’s expense. In the opening chapters, a prevailing metaphor of Jerusalem as a woman (Woman Zion) portrays a weeping widow, abandoned and alone, who soon becomes the target of blame for the downfall of the city and its inhabitants. Vague sexual improprieties craft the basis of her sinfulness, seemingly to justify her immense suffering as punishment. The damning effect of such a metaphor finds company in subsequent accounts of women, young girls, and mothers—all victims of the destruction recorded therein. But this feminist interpretation of Lamentations does not stop at merely documenting the case against women; it also demonstrates how such texts can serve as sources of strength by lifting up portraits of courageous resistance amid the rubble of misogynist landscapes.

Author : Mitzi J. Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 162564745X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Found God in Me written by Mitzi J. Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Letty M. Russell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664246396
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretation of the Bible written by Letty M. Russell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Wilda C. Gafney
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648122
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Womanist Midrash written by Wilda C. Gafney and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.