Transgression and Transformation: Feminist, Postcolonial and Queer Biblical Interpretation as Creative Interventions

✍ Scribed by L. Juliana Claassens; Christl M. Maier; Funlọla O. Ọlọjẹde (editors)

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume on feminist, postcolonial and queer biblical interpretation gathers perspectives from a global body of researchers; in offering innovative interpretations of key texts from the Hebrew Bible, both established and emerging biblical scholars consider the question of how commonplace interpretative practices may be considered to be transgressive in nature. Utilizing innovative strategies, they read against the grain of the text and in support of the marginalized, the subordinated or subaltern others both in the text and in our world today.
Important questions regarding power and privilege are constantly raised: whose voices are being heard, and whose interests are being served? Knowing all too well the harm that stereotypical constructions of the Other can do in terms of feeding racism, sexism, homophobia and imperialism in their respective interpretative communities, the essays in this volume interrogate constructions of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class, both in the text as well as in their respective contexts. By means of these thought-provoking interpretations, the contributors show their commitment not merely the sake of scholarship but to a scholarly ethos, which in some shape or form contributes to the cultivation of more just, equitable societies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: From Transgression to Transformation
Part I Transgressive Measures
Chapter 1 Numbered with the Transgressors: The Story of the Daughters of Zelophehad as Retold by Noah / Funlọla O. Ọlọjẹde
Chapter 2 Silence Breakers: Woman Zion and the #Metoo Movement—Lamentations 2:20–22’s Path to Transformation / Gina Hens-Piazza
Chapter 3 Reclaiming Jezebel and Mrs Job: Challenging Sexist Cultural Stereotypes and the Curse of Invisibility / Lerato Mokoena
Chapter 4 Interventions to the Drama of a Broken Family in Jeremiah 2:1–4:4 / Christl M. Maier
Chapter 5 Interruptions: Strengthening Institutions as Transformative Transgression / Jacqueline E. Lapsley
Chapter 6 Torah as Instruction to Establish Justice: Rethinking Childbirth and Cultic Purity According to Leviticus 12 / Hendrik L. Bosman
Part II Transgressive Methodologies
Chapter 7 Excavating Trauma Narratives: Haunting Memories in the Story of Lot’s Daughters / L. Juliana Claassens
Chapter 8 Normative Masculinities Turned Upside Down? Reading Genesis 19:30–38 Side by Side with Selected African Proverbs / Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele)
Chapter 9 Justice for Rahab and the Gibeonites in the Book of Joshua? The Elusive Communities of Justice in Imperial/Colonial Contexts / Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango
Chapter 10 Come On, Come Out, Come Here, Come Here… Queer Expressions of Desire in Genesis 28–31 / Charlene van der Walt
Chapter 11 Postcolonial Botho/Ubuntu: Transformative Readings of Ruth in the Botswana Urban Space Musa W. Dube
Chapter 12 Tamar Summons Jesus: A Trans-Textual (2 Samuel 13:1–22; Mark 5:22–43; Matthew 20:17–34) Search for Sectorial Solidarity with Respect to Gender and Masculinity / Gerald O. West
Index of References
Index of Authors

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