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The practices of radical refusal in biblical feminist interpretation and black study
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022 Gender-specific frameworks detect androcentrism in biblical texts and create a methodology and a reading practice of reading the stories of women not only as by-products of their environments or religious figures but also humanises them through radical ...
Lerato L. Mokoena
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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 ...
Robert Wafawanaka
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Integrity Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2022 Today the Christian churches and Christianity are thriving in Africa as almost cannot be found elsewhere. There are at least 685 million Christians on the continent. While Christianity is traversing the multi-coloured cultures of Africa, points of departure from the old western classical interpretation of the Bible exist.
Clement Usen Eton, Vincent Etim Eyo
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Feminist Biblical Interpretation
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of TheologyFeminist biblical interpretation is a critical approach that seeks to deconstruct traditional interpretations of scripture that have perpetuated gender-based violence and marginalization.
L. Juliana Claassens
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Was Eve the first femme fatale?
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021 Feminist theology approaches the biblical teaching of the fall with a non-historical or traditional interpretation. The biblical teaching suggests that the primordial couple sinned by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree that God prohibited (Gn 3:1 ...
Roche Coleman
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‘A dangerous and powerful woman?’ – A feminist reading of an old story with new cultural eyes
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022 This article explores the text of Judges 14, which describes the life of a so-called ‘hyper-masculine’ Israelite hero, Samson. However, a careful feminist and socio-historical interpretation of Samson’s character reflects a rather bleak version of an ...
Doniwen Pietersen
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Tafsir Post-Kolonial Femenis Yehezkiel 16:15-22 sebagai Teks Pornografi Kenabian
Khazanah Theologia, 2020 The issue of violence against women not only occurs in the space of action or the form of direct violence but also in the way of indirect violence, among others through the understanding of the biblical text that discredit women. This study aims to carry
Yohanes Parihala, Jelfy L Hursepuny
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A post-Jungian reading of the Book of Baruch
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 It is often claimed that the use of depth psychology in the interpretation of ancient texts is irrelevant and methodologically unsound. Several typical Jungian archetypes, such as the shadow, the primordial mother, and the hero, were identified ...
Zacharias Kotzé
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