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Review of Biblical Literature
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Women in the Hebrew Bible
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Pharos Journal of Theology
In the interpretation of the Bible, feminists are often trapped by the method of progressive subversive interpretation which considers the entire Bible to be written by a patriarchal culture which must of necessity be deconstructed. But through this paper, it is understood that in the Holy Bible it was not entirely written only for a pervading patriarchal culture, but indeed the Holy Bible, or at least a part of the book was written by women in their struggle for liberation. There is even a book that reverses patriarchal culture and turns it into a matriarchy, that the family is not "beth-av" (father's house), but the word family relates to the notion of a "mother's house" in the book of Ruth. There are of course numerous great women in the Holy Bible, inter-alia, Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus, Deborah, Ruth, Sarah, Priscilla, Rahab, Hannah, Esther and Miriam who was the archetype of the female prophetic tradition. The method used in this article is hi.
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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.
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the paper deals with the biblical position of women as seen in the Old Testament. the article is not an attempt to relegate women or a paper in support of feminism, rather, it is an unbiased position.
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Against centuries of framing gender relations on the basis of so-called biblical ‘hard passages’, I offer an expansive three-fold way of reading the new Testament that is both feminist and Anabaptist. Using both a hermeneutics of suspicion about power and Christocentric biblical interpretation, I seek to counter women’s inequality, disadvantage and subordination. I argue for: taking a broad look at the text when thinking about gender relations to uncover the story of gender in unlikely places that I argue should become the most likely places; paying attention to the diversity of early Christian location, experience and expression in the context of the politics and society of the ancient world; and within this framework revisiting specific texts predominantly associated with a gender hierarchy to encounter exhortations of moral agency, behaviour and activity. This approach maintains vigilance about gender power relations while simultaneously providing a critique of gendered approaches to scripture.
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As Emile Durkheim says religion is not just about worshiping a sacred entity but it is worship of society itself. Religion is an important social institution which plays an important role in shaping the morality in individual’s life. Hence this paper focuses on exploring the ways in which an established religious text like bible can be interpreted by different strands of society especially with respect to the role and status of women. This paper focuses on fundamental aspects of society such as marriage, sexuality and adultery and explores this with the lens of biblical narratives and norms. This work encompasses various perspectives of interpretations of text and their linkages with theoretical aspects in the gender discourse.
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Women in Judaism a Multidisciplinary Journal
