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Hebrews (Hardcover)
Mary Ann Beavis, Hyeran Kim-Cragg; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Linda M. Maloney; Contributions by Marie Annharte Baker, …
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R1,478
Discovery Miles 14 780
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Hebrews seems like unpromising material for feminist
interpretation, although it is the only New Testament writing for
which female authorship has been seriously posited. Mary Ann Beavis
and HyeRan Kim-Cragg highlight the similarities between Hebrews and
the book of Wisdom/Sophia, which share cosmological, ethical,
historical, and sapiential themes, revealing that Hebrews is in
fact a submerged tradition of Sophia-Wisdom. They also tackle the
sacrificial Christology of Hebrews, concluding that in its ancient
context, far from symbolizing suffering and abjection, sacrifice
was understood as celebratory and relational. Contributions from
Filipina (Maricel and Marilou Ibita), Jewish (Justin Jaron Lewis),
historical (Nancy Calvert-Koyzis), and First Nations (Marie
Annharte Baker) perspectives bring additional scholarly, cultural,
religious, and experiential wisdom to the commentary. From the
Wisdom Commentary series Feminist biblical interpretation has
reached a level of maturity that now makes possible a commentary
series on every book of the Bible. It is our hope that Wisdom
Commentary, by making the best of current feminist biblical
scholarship available in an accessible format to ministers,
preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid all readers
in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity, equality, and
justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to provide feminist
interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with
the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women.
A central concern is the world in front of the text, that is, how
the text is heard and appropriated by women. At the same time, this
commentary aims to be faithful to the ancient text, to explicate
the world behind the text, where appropriate, and not impose
contemporary questions onto the ancient texts. The commentary
addresses not only issues of gender (which are primary in this
project) but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and
classism, which all intersect. Each volume incorporates diverse
voices and differing interpretations from different parts of the
world, showing the importance of social location in the process of
interpretation and that there is no single definitive feminist
interpretation of a text.
This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether
women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance. It
details the participation in the Querelle des Femmes and Power of
Women topos as expressed in this hagiographic work on the lives of
biblical women including the apocryphal Judith. The Power of Women
topos is discussed in the context of the reception of the Amazon
myth in Jewish literature and the domestication of powerful female
figures. In the Querelle our author pleads with husbands for
generosity and respect for their wives' piety. Whether women living
in the Renaissance experienced a renaissance is a debate raging
since Joan Kelly raised the possibility that this historic
phenomenon essentially did not affect women. The question is raised
with reference to the women depicted in Many Pious Women. These
topics find their expression in a richly annotated translation with
extensive introductory essays of a unique 16th-century manuscript
in Western Yiddish (Judeo-German) written in Italy. The text will
also be useful to scholars of the history of Yiddish and theorists
of its development. Women everywhere, gender and Renaissance
scholars, Yiddishists and linguists will all welcome this work now
available for the very first time in the original text with an
English translation.
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