9781630878719 (electronic bk.)

1630878715 (electronic bk.)

9781625647450

162564745X

"This ... reader brings together eight classic essays, one new essay on womanist interpretation, six new original womanist readings of biblical texts, plus three reprints of womanist biblical interpretation readings written within the last three years."

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Part 1. Alice Walker's Womanist and womanist interpretative theory. "Womanist" / by Alice Walker

Womanist interpretations of the New Testament: the quest for holistic and inclusive translation and interpretation / by Clarice J. Martin

Re-reading for liberation: African American women and the Bible / by Renita J. Weems

Womanist interpretation and preaching in the Black church / by Katie Geneva Cannon

An African methodology for South African biblical sciences: revisiting the Bosadi (womanhood) approach / by Madipoane J. Masenya

Marginalized people, liberating perspectives: a womanist approach to biblical interpretation / by Kelly Brown Douglas

Our mothers' gardens: discrete sources of reflection on the cross in womanist christology / by JoAnne Marie Terrell

"This little light of mine": the womanist biblical scholar as prophetess, iconoclast, and activist / by Mitzi J. Smith

Part 2. Reading the Bible as a womanist biblical scholar. A womanist midrash on Zipporah / by Wil Gafney

Fashioning our own souls: a womanist reading of the virgin-whore binary in Matthew and Revelation / by Mitzi J. Smith

A womanist-postcolonial reading of the Samaritan woman at the well and Mary Magdalene at the tomb / by Lynne St. Clair Darden

Minjung, the Black masses, and the global imperative: a womanist reading of Luke's soteriological hermeneutical circle / by Mitzi J. Smith

Wisdom in the garden: the woman of Genesis 3 and Alice Walker's Sophia / by Kimberly Dawn Russaw

"Knowing more than is good for one": a womanist interrogation of the Matthean great commission / by Mitzi J. Smith

Silenced struggles for survival: finding life in death in the book of Ruth / by Yolanda Norton

"Give them what you have": a womanist reading of the Matthean feeding miracle (Matt 14:13-21) / by Mitzi J. Smith

Acts 9:36-43: the many faces of Tabitha, a womanist reading / by Febbie C. Dickerson.

Bible > Black interpretations.

Bible > Feminist criticism.

Bible > Hermeneutics.

African American women > Religious life.