Feminist Interpretation Of The Bible

by Silvia Schroer (Editor), Sophia Bietenhard (Editor)

Overview

Six stories and 15 papers not so much document as reflect the international symposium held in Ticino, Switzerland in July 2000. Biblical scholars from 20 countries on five continents such topics as African American women re-reading the Bible for liberation, the Bible and other sacred texts in Latin America, postcolonial feminist hermeneutics of liberation, a contextual reading of the Book of Ruth by women in contemporary Palestinian society, the power of difference in the intercultural relations of feminist theologians, and recovering the liberation tradition of early Christianity in Korea. There is no index. Sheffield Academic Press in an imprint of Continuum. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567083722
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/14/2004
Series:	The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies , #374
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Silvia Schroer is Professor of Old Testament and related studies in the Protestant Theology department at the University of Berne, Switzerland. Sophia Bietenhard is Minister of the Reformed church of Switzerland and lecturer in a teacher's training institute, Beirne, Switzerland

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xi
	List of contributors	xvii
	'We Will Know Each Other by Our Fruits': Feminist Exegesis and the Hermeneutics of Liberation	1
	Proverbs 31 in a New Interpretation: A Story	18
	Re-Reading for Liberation: African American Women and the Bible	19
	Helping Each Other to Think: A Series of Propositions in Retrospect	33
	Some Reflections on Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics for Liberation	34
	Changing Seasons: About the Bible and Other Sacred Texts in Latin America	48
	Joshua 2: Spies Sent to Jericho	59
	Jumping the Fire with Judith: Postcolonial Feminist Hermeneutics of Liberation	60
	Feminist Biblical Interpretation and the Hermeneutics of Liberation: An African Woman's Perspective	77
	The Book of Ruth and a Group of Prostitutes in Costa Rica: A Story	86
	Women in Contemporary Palestinian Society: A Contextual Reading of the Book of Ruth	88
	A Secular, Jewish, Feminist Look at the Bible	94
	Highlights: Selected Statements from the Oral Discussions	103
	The Stolen Bible	117
	Freedom, Liberation and Context as Hermeneutical Tasks	126
	The Beautiful Princess and the Village Girls: The Power of Difference in the Intercultural Relations of Feminist Theologians	137
	Women and War in India: A Historical Event from the Ninth Century	153
	The Sun, the Woman and the Peacock: A Story	154
	When Women Unite! Celebrate Our Differences as the Cause of Our Unity	155
	The Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation from the Perspective of Asian Christian Women: Recovering the Liberation-Tradition of Early Christianity in Korea	164
	The Question of Social Location and Postcolonial Feminist Hermeneutics of Liberation	171