The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible brings together 37 essential essays written by leading international scholars, examining crucial points of analysis within the field of feminist Hebrew Bible studies. Organized into four major areas - globalization, neoliberalism, media, and intersectionality - the essays collectively provide vibrant, relevant, and innovative contributions to the field. The topics of analysis focus heavily on gender and queer identity, with essays touching on African, Korean, and European feminist hermeneutics, womanist and interreligious readings, ecofeminist and animal biblical studies, migration biblical studies, the role of gender binary voices in evangelical-egalitarian approaches, and the examination of scripture in light of trans women's voices. The volume also includes essays examining the Old Testament as recited in music, literature, film, and video games. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible charts a culturally, hermeneutically, and exegetically cutting-edge path for the ongoing development of biblical studies grounded in feminist, womanist, gender, and queer perspectives.

Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. As a diasporic German-American feminist post-Holocaust scholar, she researches, writes, and teaches in the area of sacred text studies, primarily in Hebrew Bible studies.

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction

PART 1
THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL STUDIES

1 Biblical Interpretation and Kyriarchal Globalization

2 The Bible and Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective

3 Catholic Androcentric Bible Translations as Global Missionary Tools?

4 Feminist Bible Translations in African Contexts

5 Queer Bible Readings in Global Hermeneutical Perspective

6 Sexual Diversity and Bible in Africa

7 Empire and Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Korea

8 Reading the Bible from Below in the Era of Globalization

9 Toward an African Feminist Ethics and the Book of Proverbs

10 Lament as Womanist Healing in Times of Global Violence

PART 2
THE IMPACT OF NEOLIBERALISM ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION

11 Neoliberal Feminist Scholarship in Biblical Studies

12 Justifying (Feminist) Biblical Studies in a Neoliberal Age

13 European Feminist Biblical Scholarship in the Neoliberal Era

14 Neoliberalism and Queer Theory in Biblical Readings

15 Biblical Border Slippage and Feminist Postcolonial Criticism

16 On the Development of a Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics of Migration

PART 3
THE IMPACT OF (DIGITAL) MEDIA CULTURES ON FEMINIST BIBLICAL EXEGESIS

17 The Bible, Women, and Video Games

18 Gaming with Rahab and the Spies

19 Ecofeminist Biblical Hermeneutics for Cyborgs and the Story of Jezebel

20 Sexuality, Stoning, and Supersessionism in Post-World War II Biblical Epic Films

21 Noah Narratives, Gender Issues, and the Hollywood Hermeneutic

22 Mediating Dinah?s Story in Film

23 Exploring Biblical Women in Music

24 Hagar in Nineteenth-Century Southern Women?s Novels

25 Bathsheba in Contemporary Romance Novels

26 Teaching the Bible and Popular Media as Part of Contemporary Rape Culture

PART 4
THE EMERGENCE OF INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST READINGS

27 Gender and the Heterarchy Alternative for Re-Modeling Ancient Israel

28 Retrieving the History of Women Biblical Interpreters

29 A Queer Critique of Looking for ?Male? and ?Female? Voices in the Hebrew Bible

30 Queering Delilah with Critical Theory and Gendered Bible Hermeneutics

31 Examining Scripture in Light of Trans Women?s Voices

32 Feminist Egalitarian Biblical Interpretation and the Christian Right

33 Animal Studies, Feminism, and Biblical Interpretation

34 A Multidimensional Approach in Feminist Ecological Biblical Studies

35 Sarah and Hagar in Art and Interfaith Dialogue

36 Norwegian Muslim and Christian Feminists Reading the Hagar Narratives

37 Intertextual Femininity in the Book of Proverbs and the Dao de Jing

Index of Biblical References