INTRODUCING THE WOMENS HEBREW BIBLE

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Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Her research interrogates past and present culturalpolitical discourses on the Hebrew Bible with an emphasis on feminist/gendered hermeneutics. She can be reached at susannescholz.com.Introduces the history and issues of feminist readings and scholars of the Hebrew Bible in the West so that readers become knowledgeable about an important area of contemporary biblical scholarship.Describes the lives and works of pioneering scholars from a range of geographical backgrounds to give readers a sense that real women stand behind the development of feminist interpretations of the Hebrew Bible.Presents the results of feminist research organized by themes (e.g. sexual violence) and not by biblical texts (e.g. Genesis) to show readers the close connection between feminist Bible readings and the feministprogressive movement in the West.Discusses major methodological developments as they informed feminist Bible scholarship so that readers view feminist interpretative work as part of the larger academic field of biblical studies.Invites readers to think about the future of feminist biblical studies as part of our sociopolitical and economic contexts that are increasingly divided between fundamentalist religious and secular worldviews.Presents feminist biblical scholarship as an extensive and important area of current intellectual and theological discourse unknown to many people.Focuses on WesternEuropean and North American scholarship but also considers research from other geographical areas since feminist biblical research has its strongest ties in Western parts of the world.This book introduces readers to the diverse field of feminist studies on the Hebrew Bible. Not organized as a traditional introduction to the Old Testament the manuscript does not follow a biblical bookbybook structure but provides an introductory survey of the history and issues as they relate to feminist readings and readers of the Hebrew Bible. Accordingly feminist scholars of the Bible their career struggles and biblical texts characters and themes stand in the forefront of this introduction. The volume is biased toward Western feminist scholarship because of the historical developments of feminist scholarship in general and biblical studies in particular. Yet the chapters also include African Asian and Latin American perspectives on feminist studies of the Hebrew Bible. In short the book offers an overview on the historical social and academic developments of reading the Hebrew Bible as the Womens Hebrew Bible.This book introduces readers to the diverse field of feminist studies on the Hebrew Bible.Chapter 1. From the Womans Bible to the Womens Bible: The History of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible Chapter 2. A Career As a Feminist Biblical Scholar: Four S

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