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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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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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THE THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS AS NARRATIVES CONCERNING ORIGIN AND MIGRATION AS AN ONGOING NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITY BY THE TIV PEOPLE OF NIGERIA

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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A EXPERIÊNCIA DAS MULHERES NA HERMENÊUTICA BÍBLICA - DOI 10.5752/P.1983-2478.2014v10n17p200

Interações, 2015
Resumo O artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre a hermenêutica teológica feminista, composta de diversos movimentos interpretativos dos textos sagrados, porém sem a pretensão de elevar-se em novo método teológico.
Jaci de Fátima Souza Candiotto
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s Biblical Interpretation and Contributions to Feminist Theology

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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza is an important feminist theologian in contemporary Christian theology, particularly known for her contributions to biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her influence in developing new ways of interpreting Christian
Nadide Şahin
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To Build the New Jerusalem: The Ministry and Citizenship of Protestant Women in Twentieth Century Scotland

Religions, 2022
The question of women’s ordination to offices within churches, and in particular to the ministry of word and sacrament, gave rise to one of the major ecclesiological debates of the modern era.
Lesley Orr
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