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Transgression and Transformation

Feminist, Postcolonial and Queer Biblical Interpretation as Creative Interventions

Transgression and Transformation

Feminist, Postcolonial and Queer Biblical Interpretation as Creative Interventions

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£90.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567696250
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 12/08/2021
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
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.

Prof L. Juliana Claassens, Professor Christl M. Maier, Dr. Funlola O. Olojede

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.

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