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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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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.
While people often believe that the feminist movements in Britain
and North America began in the late twentieth century, this is
certainly not the case. Women throughout the centuries have sought
to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed
appropriate for them. For interpreters in the Christian tradition,
this often meant examining biblical texts that had been understood
in ways that demeaned women and using their interpretations to
encourage women to break out of their culturally proscribed
spheres. The essays in this volume are drawn from the Recovering
Female Interpreters of the Bible Consultation at the SBL Annual
Meeting and from sessions on female interpreters of Scripture at
the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. The essays address female
interpreters of the Bible such as Eudocia and Anna Jameson whose
publications have been largely ignored in the fields of the history
of biblical interpretation and reception history. Through their
publications these women used their interpretive and theological
skills to break the boundaries that previous interpretations of the
Bible and their societies imposed upon them.
While people often believe that the feminist movements in Britain
and North America began in the late twentieth century, this is
certainly not the case. Women throughout the centuries have sought
to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed
appropriate for them. For interpreters in the Christian tradition,
this often meant examining biblical texts that had been understood
in ways that demeaned women and using their interpretations to
encourage women to break out of their culturally proscribed
spheres. The essays in this volume are drawn from the Recovering
Female Interpreters of the Bible Consultation at the SBL Annual
Meeting and from sessions on female interpreters of Scripture at
the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. The essays address female
interpreters of the Bible such as Eudocia and Anna Jameson whose
publications have been largely ignored in the fields of the history
of biblical interpretation and reception history. Through their
publications these women used their interpretive and theological
skills to break the boundaries that previous interpretations of the
Bible and their societies imposed upon them.
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