Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: I. Biblical Books (Recent Research in Biblical Studies)
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Overview
This is the first of a set of three volumes reviewing the progress of feminist Hebrew Bible scholarship over the last forty years. In it, fourteen essayists focus on the feminist work on each of the biblical books.
Each essay explores the range and depth of feminist exegesis, presents substantial yet easily digestible trends, preferences and perspectives in feminist scholarship, and demonstrates that feminist biblical approaches are not monolithic but diverse in feminist conviction, hermeneutics and method.
The result of this collaborative task is a comprehensive though selective survey, which includes suggestions for future feminist engagement. What feminist biblical scholarship has accomplished during the past forty years is no small feat. But it becomes clear from this volume that much remains to be done in the pursuit of dismantling structures of gender domination in Hebrew Bible exegesis and beyond.
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- Explores the range and depth of feminist exegesis
- Presents substantial yet easily digestible trends, preferences and perspectives in feminist scholarship
- Demonstrates that feminist biblical approaches are not monolithic but diverse in feminist conviction, hermeneutics and method
- Introduction: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Feminist Hebrew Bible Interpretation - Susanne Scholz
- Genealogies of Femenist Biblical Studies: An Interview from the 1970’s Generation - Helen Leneman
- Eve’s Daughters Liberated? The Book of Genesis in Femenist Exegesis - Susanne Scholz
- Image, Status, and Regulation: The Feminist Interpretaive History of Exodus to Deuteronomy - Amelia Devin Freedman
- Consider, Take Counsel, and Speak: Re(membering) Women in Joshua and Judges - Beverly J. Stratton
- Class Privilege in Patriarchal Society: Women in First and Second Samuel - Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan
- Queens and Other Female Characters: Feminist Interpretations of First and Second Kings - Julia Faith Parker
- Biblical Metaphors as Part of the Past and Present: Feminist Approaches to the Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel - Sandie Gravett
- Engaging Images in the Prophets: Feminist Scholarship on the Book of the Twelve - Susan E. Haddox
- Discourse of Resistance: Feminist Studies on the Psalter and the Book of Lamentations - Carleen Mandolfo
- Looking in Through the Lattice: Feminist and Other Gender-Critical Readings of the Song of Songs- Fiona C. Black
- Sitting Around the Fireplace at Wisdom’s House: A Review of Feminist Studies on Proverbs, Job, and Qoheleth - Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele)
- The Stories of Women in a Man’s World: The Books of Ruth, Esther, and Judith - Yael Shemesh
- Reading Silence: The Books of Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah, and the Relative Absence of a Feminist Interpretive History - Julie Kelso
- Crossing Boundaries: Feminist Perspectives on the Sotires of Daniel and Susanna - David M. Valeta
- Title: Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: I. Biblical Books
- Author: Susanne Scholz
- Series: Recent Research in Biblical Studies
- Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Pages: 340
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781910928318, 1910928313
- Resource ID: LLS:FMNSTNTRPRTTBKS1
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-11T18:32:35Z
Susanne Scholz (Ph.D.) is Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. As a diasporic German-American feminist post-Holocaust scholar, she researches, writes, and teaches in the area of sacred text studies, primarily in Hebrew Bible studies.
Dr. Scholz holds a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Born and raised in Germany, she studied at the University of Mainz and the University of Heidelberg while preparing for the equivalent of the Master of Divinity. She also studied in a one-year study program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, prior to coming to the United States. During these years, she participated at an archaeological dig at Tell el-Oreme/Tel Kinrot on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, led by one of her professors in Mainz.
Dr. Scholz has taught at various departments of religious and theological undergraduate and graduate institutions, such as Fordham University, the College of Wooster, Merrimack College, the GTU, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has also lectured at various churches and religious organizations, whenever an opportunity presents itself. She likes to encourage her students and various audiences to take seriously the hermeneutical insight that readers, grounded in their social locations, create (biblical) meanings. She also enjoys explaining why it is ‘true’ that, contrary to popular opinion, sacred texts are inherently ambiguous, flexible, and elastic.