Womanist Midrash

Author: Wilda C. Gafney
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611648122
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her own translations, Gafney offers a midrashic interpretation of the biblical text that is rooted in the African American preaching tradition to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Gafney employs a solid understanding of womanist and feminist approaches to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical culture of the ancient Near East. This unique and imaginative work is grounded in serious scholarship and will expand conversations about feminist and womanist biblical interpretation.

Womanist Midrash

Author: Wilda C. Gafney
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664239039
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church Year B

Author: Wilda C. Gafney
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1640655719
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
The next installment in the critically acclaimed lectionary series that focuses on women's stories. In this second volume of the three-volume Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, widely praised womanist bible scholar and priest Wil Gafney selects scripture readings that emphasize women's stories. Focusing especially on the Gospel of Mark, Year B of A Women's Lectionary features Gafney's fresh, inclusive, and thought-provoking translations of every reading, alongside commentary on each reading. Designed for liturgical use or scriptural study, this resource offers a new perspective on the Bible and the liturgical year. “Gafney's paradigm-shifting scholarship will influence biblical preaching and teaching for generations to come." —National Catholic Reporter

Daughters of Miriam

Author: Wilda Gafney
Publisher:
ISBN: 080066258X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
"Women prophets proclaimed and performed the word of God at formative moments in ancient Israel's history, and were expected in biblical visions of the future. Now they come to the foreground as Wilda C. Gafney explores women's involvement in prophetic activities and sacred roles in ancient Israel, its near eastern environment, and early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism as well."--BOOK JACKET.

Lady Midrash

Author: Elisabeth Mehl Greene
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498284191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
What if the women of the Bible told their own stories? Lady Midrash: Poems Reclaiming the Voices of Biblical Women brings to life alternative interpretations and forgotten female perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Following in the footsteps of Jewish midrash, a storytelling tradition that explores the gaps in scripture, these poems re-examine the experiences of Biblical women. Sidelined heroines are celebrated. Supposed villainesses get to speak for themselves. Lady Midrash reverses convention, probes familiar narratives, attends to small moments, highlights peripheral and silent characters, and names the nameless. The imagination of midrash provides the reader with a creative space to rethink assumptions and reconsider the accounts of women in the Jewish and Christian traditions.

Womanist Interpretations of the Bible

Author: Gay L. Byron
Publisher: SBL Press
ISBN: 9780884141853
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Expand the discourse and open the spheres of engagement to include new voices of scholars and bold, innovative interpretive approaches This edited volume brings together cross-generational and cross-cultural readings of the Bible and other sacred sources by including scholars from the Caribbean, India, and Africa who have not traditionally fit into the narrow U.S., African American paradigm for understanding womanist biblical interpretation. The volume engages the reader in a wide range of interdisciplinary methods and perspectives, such as gender and feminist criticism, social-scientific methods, post-colonial and psychoanalytical theory that emphasize the inherently intersectional dynamics of race, ethnicity, and class at work in womanist thought and analysis. Features Topics include the Black Lives Matter movement, domestic violence, and AIDS, while at the same time uncovering the roles of children, women, and other marginalized persons in biblical narratives Coverage of Hebrew Bible and New Testament texts, as well as Ifa spiritual narratives, Hindu scripture, and Ethiopic texts Responses from four respected womanist and feminist critics: Katherine Doob Sakenfeld, Emilie Townes, Layli (Phillips) Maparyan, and Sarojini Nadar

Whispering The Word

Author: Jacqueline E. Lapsley
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664235314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description

An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation

Author: Nyasha Junior
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN: 0664259871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation provides a much-needed introduction to womanist approaches to biblical interpretation. It argues that womanist biblical interpretation is not simply a byproduct of feminist biblical interpretation but part of a distinctive tradition of African American women's engagement with biblical texts. While womanist biblical interpretation is relatively new in the development of academic biblical studies, African American women are not newcomers to biblical interpretation. Written in an accessible style, this volume highlights the importance of both the Bible and race in the development of feminism and the emergence of womanism. It provides a history of feminist biblical interpretation and discusses the current state of womanist biblical interpretation as well as critical issues related to its development and future. Although some African American women identify themselves as "womanists," the term, its usage, its features, and its connection to feminism remain widely misunderstood. This excellent textbook is perfect for helping to introduce readers to the development and applications of womanist biblical interpretation.

Just a Sister Away

Author: Renita J. Weems
Publisher: Innisfree Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Weems has created a milestone in women's literature, a book that sheds light on the relationships of biblical women in new and meaningful ways that connect women across class, culture, race and time.

The Peoples' Companion to the Bible

Author: Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451403305
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
Highlighting the role of cultures in both the development of the Bible and in its subsequent reception around the world, The Peoples' Companion to the Bible enables students to see how social location-including gender, ethnicity, social class, and cultural pluralism-has figured in the ways particular peoples have understood the biblical text. But it also helps students formulate their own social location and biblical horizon as a key to understanding the Bible and its import for them.