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Womanist interpretations of the Bible : expanding the discourse / edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace.

Contributor(s): Byron, Gay L [editor.] | Lovelace, Vanessa [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia studies: no. 85.Publisher: Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xiv, 387 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628371529; 1628371528Subject(s): Bible -- Feminist criticism | Womanist theology | Bible -- Black interpretations | Bible -- HermeneuticsDDC classification: 220.6082 LOC classification: BS521.4 | .W66 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: Methods and the making of womanist biblical hermeneutics / Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace -- Gender and sexuality. The invisible women: numbers 30 and the politics of singleness in Africana communities / Stacy Davis -- A womanist midrash of Delilah: don't hate the playa hate the game / Wil Gafney -- The song of songs: redeeming gender constructions in the age of AIDS / Cheryl B. Anderson -- Agency and advocacy. Race, gender, and the politics of "sass": reading Mark 7:24-30 through a womanist lens of intersectionality and inter(con)textuality / Mitzi J. Smith -- Antitypes, stereotypes, and antetypes: Jezebel, the Sun Woman, and contemporary black women / Love L. Sechrest -- One more time with Assata on my mind: a womanist rereading of the escape to Egypt (Matt 2:13-23) in dialogue with an African American woman fugitive narrative / Shively T.J. Smith -- "Battered love": exposing abuse in the Book of Job / Marlene Underwood -- Foregrounding women on the margins. Black collectors and keepers of tradition: resources for a womanist biblical ethic of (re)interpretation / Gay L. Byron -- Flowing from breast to breast: an examination of dis/placed motherhood in African American and Indian wet nurses / Sharon Jacob and Jennifer T. Kaalund -- "We don't give birth to thugs": family values, respectability politics, and Jephthah's mother / Vanessa Lovelace -- Illuminating biblical children/childhood. Outrageous, audacious, courageous, willful: reading the enslaved girl of Acts 12 / Margaret Aymer -- "Nobody's free until everybody's free": exploring gender and class injustice in a story about children (Luke 18:15-17) / Bridgett A. Green -- "I will make boys their princes": a womanist reading of children in the Book of Isaiah / Valerie Bridgeman -- In response. Miracles and gifts: a womanist reading of John 14:12-14 and Ephesians 4:11-16 / Layli Maparyan -- Looking forward from the horizon: a response in Africana sisterhood and solidarity / Althea Spencer-Miller -- Challenged and changed / Katharine Doob Sakenfeld -- The road we are traveling / Emilie M. Townes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Methods and the making of womanist biblical hermeneutics / Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace -- Part 1. Gender and sexuality. The invisible women: numbers 30 and the politics of singleness in Africana communities / Stacy Davis -- A womanist midrash of Delilah: don't hate the playa hate the game / Wil Gafney -- The song of songs: redeeming gender constructions in the age of AIDS / Cheryl B. Anderson -- Part 2. Agency and advocacy. Race, gender, and the politics of "sass": reading Mark 7:24-30 through a womanist lens of intersectionality and inter(con)textuality / Mitzi J. Smith -- Antitypes, stereotypes, and antetypes: Jezebel, the Sun Woman, and contemporary black women / Love L. Sechrest -- One more time with Assata on my mind: a womanist rereading of the escape to Egypt (Matt 2:13-23) in dialogue with an African American woman fugitive narrative / Shively T.J. Smith -- "Battered love": exposing abuse in the Book of Job / Marlene Underwood -- Part 3. Foregrounding women on the margins. Black collectors and keepers of tradition: resources for a womanist biblical ethic of (re)interpretation / Gay L. Byron -- Flowing from breast to breast: an examination of dis/placed motherhood in African American and Indian wet nurses / Sharon Jacob and Jennifer T. Kaalund -- "We don't give birth to thugs": family values, respectability politics, and Jephthah's mother / Vanessa Lovelace -- Part 4. Illuminating biblical children/childhood. Outrageous, audacious, courageous, willful: reading the enslaved girl of Acts 12 / Margaret Aymer -- "Nobody's free until everybody's free": exploring gender and class injustice in a story about children (Luke 18:15-17) / Bridgett A. Green -- "I will make boys their princes": a womanist reading of children in the Book of Isaiah / Valerie Bridgeman -- Part 5. In response. Miracles and gifts: a womanist reading of John 14:12-14 and Ephesians 4:11-16 / Layli Maparyan -- Looking forward from the horizon: a response in Africana sisterhood and solidarity / Althea Spencer-Miller -- Challenged and changed / Katharine Doob Sakenfeld -- The road we are traveling / Emilie M. Townes.

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