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Feminist Hermeneutics and Evangelical Concerns: The Rape of Dinah as a Case Study
Tyndale Bulletin, 2002 The article begins by outlining the challenge feminist hermeneutics poses for traditional notions of biblical authority. Genesis 34 is set out as a case study for displaying feminist interpretations that read with the narrator but against patriarchal ...
Robin Parry
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Interpreting texts and the matter of context: Examples from the Book of Ruth
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2019 This article aims to explore the matter of context in biblical exegesis and interpretation. Several exegetical approaches are discussed, namely, text-immanent, intertextual comparison, reader-response criticism, which is subdivided into feminist and ...
Gerda de Villiers
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Toxic Masculinity in Africa and the Bible: The Strong-man Model and the Co-optation of Feminist Biblical Interpretation [PDF]
Old Testament Essays, 2021 ABSTRACT The present article discusses the concept of toxic masculinity in the context of African political history, leadership models and feminist biblical interpretation. It explores and problematises the idea of manliness as a key concept of masculinity exhibited in the African context by warrior queens and perpetuated by modern African leaders ...
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Coming, Going, and Knowing. Reading Sex and Embodiment in Hebrew Narrative [PDF]
, 2016 This article both summarizes and analyzes recent feminist scholarship in literary studies and, in light of that analysis, examines a range of Hebrew terms for sexual intercourse.
Christine Mitchell
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Theological Language in Crisis?
Old Testament Essays, 2023 In this article that explores male and female metaphors for God in the Hebrew Bible, I argue with specific reference to the book of Jeremiah that the intersection of trauma and gender is particularly important in considering how tumultuous times ...
Juliana Claassens
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Mutual-mothering as wise living or living wisely
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 In the 1970s, feminist biblical scholars began to conduct research on the biblical traditions of wisdom and the manifestation of female images of God, named Sophialogy.
Susara J. Nortjé-Meyer
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Open Theology, 2020 The feminist theological and historical work of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza has been met with diverging responses. For feminist biblical scholars, Schüssler Fiorenza is essential reading, with even her works from the 1970s and 1980s still standing as ...
Walters Amy Madeleine
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Scriptura, 2012 In his search for the components or aspects of dialogue with the Bible particularly in Africa, West (2008:48) mentions five comparative approaches of Ukpong (2000:17-18).
Jonathan Weor
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A realistic reading as a feminist tool: The Prodigal Son as a case study
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 The parables of Jesus have historically been attributed with a plethora of interpretations. The first hearers of the parables of Jesus had native (emic) knowledge of the social realities embedded in the parables told by Jesus, that is, cultural scripts ...
Charel D. du Toit
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