This volume on intercultural biblical interpretation includes essays by feminist scholars from Botswana, Germany, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States. Reading from a rich variety of socio-cultural locations, contributors present their hermeneutical frameworks for interpretation of Hebrew Bible texts, each framework grounded in the writer's journey of professional or social formation and serving as a prism or optic for feminist critical analysis.
The volume hosts a lively conversation about the nature and significance of biblical interpretation in a global context, focusing on issues at the nexus of operations of power, textual ambiguity, and intersectionality. Engaged here are notions of biblical authority and postures of dissent; women's agency, discernment, rivalry, and alliance in ancient and contemporary contexts; ideological constructions of sexuality and power; interpretations related to indigeneity, racial identity, interethnic intimacy, and violence in colonial contexts; theologies of the feminine divine and feminist understandings of the sacred; convictions about interdependence and conditions of flourishing for all beings in creation; and ethics of resistance positioned over against dehumanization in political, theological, and hermeneutical praxes. Through their textual and contextual engagements, contributors articulate a broad spectrum of feminist insights into the possibilities for emancipatory visions of community.

L. Juliana Claassens is Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School, USA.

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INTRODUCTION
1. Celebrating Intersectionality, Interrogating Power, and Embracing Ambiguity as Feminist Critical Practices -- L. Juliana Claassens, University of Stelenbosch, South Africa and Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USA
RETROSPECT
2. Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Have We Come? -- Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
CELEBRATING INTERSECTIONALITY
3. An Abigail Optic: Agency, Resistance, and Discernment in 1 Samuel 25 --
L. Juliana Claassens, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
4. Dinah (Genesis 34) at the Contact Zone: "Shall Our Sister Become a Whore?" --
Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana
5. Jezebel and the Feminine Divine in Feminist Postcolonial Focus --
Judith E. McKinlay, University of Otago, New Zealand
6. The "Foreign" Women in Ezra-Nehemiah: Intersectional Perspectives on Ethnicity --
Christl M. Maier, University of Marburg, Germany
INTERROGATING POWER
7. The Violence of Power and the Power of Violence: Hybrid, Contextual Perspectives on the Book of Esther -- Marie-Theres Wacker, Westfälische-Wilhems University, Germany
8. "Is There a Man Here?" The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove in Judges 4 --
Charlene van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
9. Miriam and Moses's Cushite Wife: Sisterhood in Jeopardy?
Funlola Olojede -- University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
EMBRACING AMBIGUITY
10. Is This Naomi? A Feminist Reading of the Ambiguity of Naomi in the Book of Ruth --
Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USA
11. Stuck Between the Waiting Room and the Reconfigured Levirate Entity? Reading Ruth in Marriage-Obsessed African Christian Contexts -- Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele), University of South Africa, South Africa
12. Daughters, Priests, and Patrilineage: A Feminist and Gender-Critical Interpretation of the End of the Book of Numbers -- Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University, USA
13. "I Will Take No Bull from Your House": Feminist Biblical Theology in a Creational Context -- Jacqueline E. Lapsley, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
POSTSCRIPT
14. Feminist Biblical Interpretation: How Far Do We Yet Have To Go? -- Elna Mouton, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index