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Reading the Bible as women : perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / editor, Phyllis A. Bird ; guest editors, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and Sharon H. Ringe ; editorial consultants, Seung Ai Yang, Leticia Guardiola-Sáenz, Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango.

Contributor(s): Bird, Phyllis A. (Phyllis Ann), 1934- | Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob, 1940- | Ringe, Sharon H | Yang, Seung Ai | Guardiola-Sáenz, Leticia | Mbuwayesango, Dora R
Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia : an experimental journal for biblical criticism: 78.Publisher: Atlanta, GA : Scholars Press, 1997Description: vi, 165 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible -- Feminist criticismBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Phyllis A. Bird, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and Sharon H. Ringe -- Toward a postcolonial feminist interpretation of the Bible / Musa W. Dube -- Childlessness and woman-to-woman relationships in Genesis and in African patriarchal society : Sarah and Hagar from a Zimbabwean woman's perspective (Gen 16:1-16; 21:8-21) / Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango -- Han-Laden women : Korean "comfort women" and women in Judges 19-21 / Yani Yoo -- Returning home : the inspiration of the role dedifferentiation in the Book of Ruth for Taiwanese women / Julie Li-Chuan Chu -- Proverbs 31:10-31 in a South African context : a reading for the liberation of Africa (Northern Sotho) women / Madipoane Masenya --
Borderless women and borderless texts : a cultural reading of Matthew 15:21-28 / Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz -- Reading the Bible "with" women in poor and marginalized communities in South Africa (Mark 5:21-6:1) / Malika A. Sibeko and Beverley G. Haddad -- Polarity or partnership? Retelling the story of Martha and Mary from Asian women's perspective (Luke 10:38-42) / Ranjini Rebera -- A Korean feminist reading of John 4:1-42 / Jean K. Kim -- The transformative potential of Ephesians in a situation of transition / Elna Mouton -- Responses : a North American perspective / Antoinette Clark Wire (U.S.A.) -- The Indian voice / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon (India) -- About "the other" and "the this" / Ahida Cama-Calderón and Mercedes Garcia Bachmann.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Phyllis A. Bird, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and Sharon H. Ringe -- Toward a postcolonial feminist interpretation of the Bible / Musa W. Dube -- Childlessness and woman-to-woman relationships in Genesis and in African patriarchal society : Sarah and Hagar from a Zimbabwean woman's perspective (Gen 16:1-16; 21:8-21) / Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango -- Han-Laden women : Korean "comfort women" and women in Judges 19-21 / Yani Yoo -- Returning home : the inspiration of the role dedifferentiation in the Book of Ruth for Taiwanese women / Julie Li-Chuan Chu -- Proverbs 31:10-31 in a South African context : a reading for the liberation of Africa (Northern Sotho) women / Madipoane Masenya --

Borderless women and borderless texts : a cultural reading of Matthew 15:21-28 / Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz -- Reading the Bible "with" women in poor and marginalized communities in South Africa (Mark 5:21-6:1) / Malika A. Sibeko and Beverley G. Haddad -- Polarity or partnership? Retelling the story of Martha and Mary from Asian women's perspective (Luke 10:38-42) / Ranjini Rebera -- A Korean feminist reading of John 4:1-42 / Jean K. Kim -- The transformative potential of Ephesians in a situation of transition / Elna Mouton -- Responses : a North American perspective / Antoinette Clark Wire (U.S.A.) -- The Indian voice / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon (India) -- About "the other" and "the this" / Ahida Cama-Calderón and Mercedes Garcia Bachmann.

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