Transgression and Transformation: Feminist, Postcolonial and Queer Biblical Interpretation as Creative Interventions
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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.
A collection of essays on feminist, postcolonial and queer biblical interpretation from a group of established and upcoming scholars, with a goal towards transforming interpretative and cultural practices.
Challenges the hegemony of certain interpretative methods, utilizing trauma hermeneutics, feminist biblical interpretation, queer biblical interpretation or postcolonial and an African Ubuntu reading
Engages with a range of societal concerns, such as the #MeToo movement, governance within a higher education context, the long-term detrimental effects of colonial thought on women in urban Africa, and representations of popular culture such as Wonder Woman and Judith
Offers a conversation between expert interpreters well-known for their feminist, postcolonial and/or queer critical work, and emerging scholars who through a process of mentoring have been brought into this volume
List of Contributors
Introduction: From Transgression to Transformation, L. Juliana Claassens, Christl M. Maier, and Funlola O. Olojede
PART I: TRANSGRESSIVE CHARACTERS
1. Numbered with the Transgressors: The Story of the Daughters of Zelophehad as Retold by Noah, Funlola O. Olojede, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
2. Silence Breakers: Woman Zion & the #Metoo Movement: Lamentations 2.20-22 as Path to Resilience, Gina Hens-Piazza, Jesuit School of Theology, USA
3. Reclaiming Jezebel and Mrs Job: Challenging Sexist Cultural Stereotypes and the Curse of Invisibility, Lerato Mokoena, University of Pretoria, South Africa
4. Interventions to the Drama of a Broken Family in Jeremiah 2:1 – 4:4, Christl M. Maier, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
PART II: TRANSGRESSIVE METHODOLOGIES
5. Excavating Trauma Narratives: Haunting Memories in the Story of Lot's Daughters, L. Juliana Claassens, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
6. Normative Masculinities Turned Upside Down? Reading Gen 19:30-38 Side by Side with Selected African Proverbs, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele), University of South Africa, South Africa
7. Justice for Rahab and the Gibeonites in the Book of Joshua? The Elusive Communities of Justice in Imperial/Colonial Contexts, Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango
8. Postcolonial Botho//Ubuntu And Ruth: Women Networks and Agency in the Botswana Urban Space, Musa W Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana
8. Come On, Come Out, Come Here, Come Here … : Queering Desire in the Story of Jacob, Leah And Rachel, Charlene van der Walt, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
9. Tamar Summons Jesus: A Trans-Textual (2 Sam 13:1-22, Mark 5:22-43, Matt 20:17-34) Search for Sectorial Solidarity with Respect to Gender and Masculinity, Gerald O. West, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Concluding response
Bibliography
Index
- Title: Transgression and Transformation: Feminist, Postcolonial and Queer Biblical Interpretation as Creative Interventions
- Authors: L. Juliana Claassens, Christl M. Maier, Funlola O. Olojede
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567696281, 9781350252394, 1350252395, 0567696286
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567696281
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T04:17:09Z
L. Juliana Claassens is professor of Old Testament and Head of the Gender Unit in the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Christl M. Maier is professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
Funlola Olojede is research associate and researcher at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.