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CLICK HERE to preview the table of contents and introduction. This book offers a much-needed introduction to womanist approaches to biblical interpretation. It argues that womanist biblical interpretation is not simply a by-product of feminist biblic...

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Clothed with the Sun
Biblical Women, Social Justice and Us

By Joyce Hollyday

The Bible holds a great treasure of amazing women. They are judges and prophets, caregivers and teachers, prominent matriarchs of large clans or quiet disciples, women who suffered alone or sang joyous praises to God amid the crowds. Their stories co...

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Democratizing Biblical Studies
Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space

By Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza argues that it is necessary to reframe the field of biblical studies and replace the competitive teaching models prevalent in graduate programs with an emancipatory, radical democratic pedagogical model that fosters colla...

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Democratizing Biblical Studies
Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space

By Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World
An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation

By Linda Day, Carolyn Pressler

In this introductory textbook, some of the most widely respected scholars in the field introduce students to the methods, issues, and theoretical frameworks central to feminist biblical interpretation. In highly accessible essays, the book covers the...

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Faith and Feminism
Ecumenical Essays

By B. Diane Lipsett, Phyllis Trible

Faith and Feminism brings together leading voices in biblical studies, inter-religious encounters, theology and ethics. Originally delivered as part of the Phyllis Trible Lecture Series at Wake Forest University School of Divinity (2003- 2013), these...

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Far More Precious than Jewels
Perspectives on Biblical Women

By Katheryn Pfisterer Darr

Using interpretation from modern critical scholars, rabbis, and feminist scholars, Katheryn Darr offers a fascinating book that provides new ways of understanding the stories of four biblical women. The author studies Ruth, a foreigner from Moab who ...

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Feminist Interpretation of the Bible

By Letty M. Russell

This book is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of a group of outstanding theologians, historians, and biblical scholars within the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. Clarifying for themselves and other...

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From Eve to Esther
Rabbinic Reconstructs of Biblical Women

By Leila Leah Bronner

This is the first book-length attempt to examine the attitude of the ancient rabbis towards some of the most significant feminine figures in the Old Testament. It traces the biblical stories, examines their objectives and methods, and discusses how t...

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Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives

By Letty M. Russell, Phyllis Trible

In different ways, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all trace their beginnings to Abraham. His wives, Hagar and Sarah, though also pivotal in the story, have received far less attention. In this book, however, noted Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sch...

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Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes, Second Edition
Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible

By Alice Ogden Bellis

This best-selling book, now revised and updated, shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories for several years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the Old Testament--stories that have profoundly a...

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Just Wives?
Stories of Power and Survival in the Old Testament and Today

By Katharine Doob Sakenfeld

Giving astute attention to social worlds of women of both ancient and modern times, Katharine Sakenfeld explores the stories of eleven women in the Old Testament. In clear and engaging fashion, she reveals the complexity of these women's lives, drawi...

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Let the Oppressed Go Free
Feminist Perspectives on the New Testament

By Luise Schottroff

This important collection draws together fascinating recent studies of aspects of the New Testament of special interest to women by Louise Schottroff, a leading European scholar. These essays, translated for the first time, will deepen feminist schol...

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Lydia's Impatient Sisters
A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity

By Luise Schottroff

Lydia's Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theol...

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Mourner, Mother, Midwife
Reimagining God's Delivering Presence in the Old Testament

By L. Juliana M. Claassens

Traditional understandings of God as deliverer depict God as a mighty liberator-warrior and wrathful avenger. Juliana Claassens explores alternative Old Testament metaphors that portray God as mourner, mother, and midwife—images that resist the viole...

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