Feminist New Testament Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Kathleen O’Brien Wicker

      Pages 1-15

3. Feminist Pedagogies: Implications of a Liberative Praxis

   1. Feminist Pedagogies: Implications of a Liberative Praxis

      • Althea Spencer Miller

      Pages 17-40

4. Conversation One: Europe and North America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. The Power of the Word: Charting Critical Global Feminist Biblical Studies

      • Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

      Pages 43-62

   3. Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique

      • Elizabeth A. Castelli

      Pages 63-78

   4. Response: Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique

      • Sheila Briggs

      Pages 79-84

   5. The Challenge of “Blackness” for Rearticulating the Meaning of Global Feminist New Testament Interpretation

      • Gay L. Byron

      Pages 85-101

   6. Response: Paradoxes of Positionality as the Key to Feminist New Testament Studies

      • Karen Jo Torjesen

      Pages 103-107

   7. Reflections on Conversation One

      • Sonya Gravlee, Erin Jacklin, Prinny Stephens

      Pages 109-112

5. Conversation Two: Asia and Latin America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. My Journey as a Latin American Feminist New Testament Scholar

      • Aída Besançon Spencer

      Pages 115-129

   3. Response: A Framework Toward Solidarity and Justice

      • Elizabeth Conde-Frazier

      Pages 131-135

   4. Biblical Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Japanese/Asian Feminist Glimpse

      • Hisako Kinukawa

      Pages 137-150

   5. Response: An Asian Buddhist Response to a Japanese Feminist Glimpse of Biblical Studies in the Twenty-First Century

      • Zhiru

      Pages 151-158

   6. Feminist Theologies in Latin America

      • Rosemary Radford Ruether

      Pages 159-170

   7. Reflections on Conversation Two

      • Holly Hight, Lydia Sohn

      Pages 171-173

6. Conversation Three: Africa and the Diaspora

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Rahab is Hanging Out a Red Ribbon: One African Woman’s Perspective on the Future of Feminist New Testament Scholarship

      • Musa W. Dube

      Pages 177-202

   3. Response: A Perilous Passage From Scarlet Cord to Red Ribbon

      • Isabel Balseiro

      Pages 203-208

This volume is an engaging and provocative introduction to Feminist Biblical Studies. The authors draw upon their own social, cultural and religious backgrounds and experiences in reading the New Testament as feminists in the context of globalization. They provide intentional interpretations of biblical texts that cast gender, race, class and power relationships as issues inherent in both the content and context of scripture and its interpretation. The essays call into question feminist social engagement that does not extend beyond academic halls, churches and Christians, suggesting directions for future research and teaching in Feminist Biblical Studies.

• biblical studies
• feminism
• gender
• interpret

"The contributors to this volume provide us with valuable resources and models to help students envision biblical studies in a critical and ethically responsible way. They carefully assess biblical studies and its relationship to women in all cultural contexts around the world and also dare to offer new interpretations for all of us." - Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt University, author of Ethics of Biblical Interpretation and general editor of Global Bible Commentary.

• Scripps College, USA

  Kathleen O’Brien Wicker

• Claremont Graduate University, USA

  Kathleen O’Brien Wicker, Althea Spencer Miller

• University of Botswana, South Africa

  Musa W. Dube

Isabel Balseiro Sheila Briggs Gay L. Byron Elizabeth A. Castelli Noelle Champagne Elizabeth Conde-Frazier Lincoln E. Galloway Sonya Y. Gravlee Holly Hight Erin Jacklin Hisako Kinukawa Zhiru Ng Filiberto Nolasso Prinny Perelman Rosemary Radford Ruether Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Lydia Sohn Afda Besanton Spencer Karen Jo Torjesen Katrina Van Heest Vincent L. Wimbush

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