Semeia 28: The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“On the basis of some rather striking similarities in content, vocabulary, and form, many scholars have concluded that they can be traced to a common source of sources, or at least a common tradition, employed by the authors of the canonical writings.” (Page 102)
“Yet, we know that historical research is constantly influenced by the current concerns, predispositions, and beliefs of the historian, that the neat separation of past and present is impossible.” (Page 125)
“Colossians, Ephesians, 1 Timothy, Titus, and 1 Peter” (Page 102)
“So, one must struggle against God as enemy assisted by God as helper, or one must defeat the Bible as patriarchal authority by using the Bible as liberator. Feminist hermeneutics, then, is profoundly paradoxical. Such a tension is difficult to maintain, for one is always tempted to reject one side, God as enemy, and accept without qualification the other, God as helper, to discard one part of the canon (or even the canon within the canon) and lift up another as the real Word.” (Pages 120–121)
“The Bible, then, is not only a book that has justified slavery, economic exploitation, and sexual oppression; it is also a book that has informed liberation, the infinite worth of the individual, and the call to fight against evil.” (Page 120)
- Janice Capel Anderson
- Toni Craven
- J. Cheryl Exum
- Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
- Sharon H. Ringe
- Mary Ann Tolbert
- William O. Walker, Jr.
- Title: Semeia 28: The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics
- Editor: Mary Ann Tolbert
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1983
- Pages: 126
