The Feminist Companion to the

Bible is understood as one of the foundations of Christian faith. It is also concerned as inspired word of God. But at the same time, it is a product of a patriarchal society. It is influenced with the values, cultures, norms and ideas of that society. The lives of women were not a concern for the patriarchal authors of the Bible. We can see very rare women voices in the scripture. As a result of this, stories of women are unrecognized. The Bible is written, canonized and interpreted by men. They were the members of patriarchal church which had patriarchal bias and androcentric nature. Also the Bible is used by men to justify their arguments against women. In this context, the re-reading of women in a feminist perspective become a necessary task to make the invisible women visible. Re-reading the Bible with women's eyes will create a new women-consciousness. It will create a radical change in the interpretation of the Bible.

Amongst the more energetic and enthusiastic forms of theology that emerged during the latter half of the twentieth century, feminist theology and feminist reading of the bible took up its place to become one of the prominent ways in which women have found theological voice and have allowed the wisdom of faith to be rooted in their lives. Its

The subjects of discussion in this publication, include and reflect the criteria Feminist Interpretation endorses, namely Crossing the Threshold of Home: Jephthah’s Daughter from the Hebrew Bible to Modern Midrash (Rachel Adelman); Constructions of Gender: Early Australian Feminists and Notions of Gender in a Hebrew Bible Creation Story (Barbara Deutschmann); Sex and Power: The Crossroads of Abuse And Obtainment (Christopher Ryan Jones); Is there Female Language for God? A Response to David Clines (Karen Langton); Threshing out Grandmother Stories: Reflecting on Ruth 3 in colonial Australia (Rebecca Lindsay); Women on the Move with Jesus (Susan Brasier); Consent and Female Motivations in the Gospel of Luke (Sylvie Chabert d’Hyères); The intersection of flesh (sarx). An eco-feminist incentive for animals, women, and the Logos as interconnected flesh (Lilly Nortjé-Meyer); and Nuptial Imagery and the Bridegroom and Bride Metaphors in Eph 5:21-33: A Reconsideration (Bruna Velcic).

Jewish Quarterly Review, 2003

2016

Die hier präsentierte Sammlung von Beiträgen dokumentiert das Panel „Feminist Approaches to the Bible“, organisiert von Susanne Scholz und Hanna Stenström bei der EABS-Tagung in Leuven im Sommer 2016. Die Diskussionsgrundlage dieses intensiven feministischtheologischen Gesprächs bildete das dreibändige Werk Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect, erschienen bei Sheffield Phoenix Press in den Jahren 2013, 2014 und 2016 (herausgegeben von Susanne Scholz). Die Beiträge von Klaus-Peter Adam, Hanna Tervanotko und Karin Tillberg reflektieren auf Grundlage dieses Werks Fragen moderner feministischer Exegese zwischen methodisch-hermeneutischen Errungenschaften und neuen Herausforderungen und Perspektiven. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Review of Biblical Literature, 2018

This volume is the second edition of a book published in 2007. This edition is much the same as the first, with the addition of further bibliography and especially two new chapters that expand the scope of the book. It now includes developments and trends of the last ten years that are concerned with queer and masculinity Bible hermeneutics and the Christian Right's interpretations of women in the Bible. The book aims to introduce some of the main issues, debates, and accomplishments of feminist studies of the Hebrew Bible in the last four decades. While the treatment is necessarily selective rather than exhaustive, Susanne Scholz has nevertheless produced a very readable and concise introductory survey of feminist biblical scholarship.

A book review panel on Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect (ed. Susan Scholz; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013, 2014, 2016). The panel statement was presented at the European Association of Biblical Studies meeting in Leuven in July 2016. Later it was published in lectio difficilior 2/2016.

part 4: illuminating Biblical Children/Childhood outrageous, audacious, Courageous, Willful: reading the enslaved Girl of acts 12 margaret aymer.

1999

While feminist ideological critics urge us to "step outside" the ideology of patriarchal texts in order to critique it, social scientific criticism insists that unless we first "step into" the sociosymbolic world refracted through the text, our readings will be compromised by the projections of a modern worldview. This paper explores the tension between these two critical approaches through a focus on current ideological readings of biblical "pornoprophetics," that is, prophetic metaphors of promiscuous women who are stripped and raped as punishment for their transgressions. The conclusion that these images are indicative of misogynic attitudes in ancient Israel is challenged for its failure to account sufficiently for the difference between ancient and modern worldviews.