Womanist interpretations of the Bible : expanding the discourse /
"Womanist Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the Discourse 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 parad...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Atlanta :
SBL Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Semeia studies ;
no. 85. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Part 1: Gender and Sexuality; The Invisible Women: Number 30 and the Politics of Singleness in Africana Communities ; A Womanist Midrash of Delilah: Don't Hate the Playa Hate the Game ; The Song of Songs: Redeeming Gender Constructions in the Age of AIDS ; Part 2: Agency and Advocacy; Race, Gender, and the Politics of "Sass" : Reading Mark 7:24-30 through a Womanist Lens of Intersectionality and Inter(con)textuality ; Antitypes, Stereotypes, and Antetypes: Jezebel, The Sun Woman, and Contemporary Black Women.
- One More Time with Assata on My Mind: A Womanist Rereading of the Escape to Egypt (Matt 2:13-23) in Dialogue with an African American Woman Fugitive Narrative "Battered Love" : Exposing Abuse in the Book of Job ; Part 3: Foregrounding Women on the Margins; Black Collectors and Keepers of Tradition: Resources for a Womanist Biblical Ethic of (Re)Interpretation ; Flowing from Breast to Breast: An Examination of Dis/placed Motherhood in African American and Indian Wet Nurses ; "We Don't Give Birth to Thugs" : Family Values, Respectability Politics, and Jephthah's Mother.
- Part 4: Illuminating Biblical Children/ChildhoodOutrageous, Audacious, Courageous, Willful: Reading the Enslaved Girl of Acts 12 ; "Nobody's Free until Everybody's Free" : Exploring Gender and Class Injustice in a Story about Children (Luke 18:15-17) ; "I Will Make Boys Their Princes" : A Womanist Reading of Children in the Book of Isaiah ; Part 5: In Response; Miracles and Gifts: A Womanist Reading of John 14:12-14 and Ephesians 4:11-16 ; Looking Forward from the Horizon: A Response in Africana Sisterhood and Solidarity ; Challenged and Changed; The Road We Are Traveling; Contributors.