I Found God in Me
A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader
Published on 5. February 2015
324 pages
978-1-63087-871-9 (ISBN)
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I Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have access, in one volume, to articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as cutting-edge womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars. This book is an excellent resource for women of color, pastors, and seminarians interested in relevant readings of the biblical text, as well as scholars and teachers teaching courses in womanist biblical hermeneutics, feminist interpretation, African American hermeneutics, and biblical courses that value diversity and dialogue as crucial to excellent pedagogy.
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Mitzi J. Smith, PhD, is Associate Professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary/Detroit. She is author of The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women (Pickwick 2011), and coeditor of Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission (2014).
Content
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT ©
- PERMISSION
- CONTENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INTRODUCTION ~ MITZI J. SMITH
- PART 1: ALICE WALKER'S WOMANIST AND WOMANIST INTERPRETATIVE THEORY
- WOMANIST" ~ ALICE WALKER'S
- 1. WOMANIST INTERPRETATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT: THE QUEST FOR HOLISTIC AND INCLUSIVE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION ~ CLARICE J. MARTIN
- 2. RE-READING FOR LIBERATION: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE BIBLE ~ RENITA J. WEEMS
- 3. WOMANIST INTERPRETATION AND PREACHING IN THE BLACK CHURCH ~ KATIE GENEVA CANNON
- 4. AN AFRICAN METHODOLOGY FOR SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLICAL SCIENCES: REVISITING THE BOSADI (WOMANHOOD) APPROACH ~ MADIPOANE J. MASENYA
- 5. MARGINALIZED PEOPLE, LIBERATING PERSPECTIVE: A WOMANIST APPROACH TO BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION ~ KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS
- 6. OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS: DISCRETE SOURCES OF REFLECTION ON THE CROSS IN WOMANIST CHRISTOLOGY ~ JOANNE MARIE TERRELL
- 7. "THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE": THE WOMANIST BIBLICAL SCHOLAR AS PROPHETESS, ICONOCLAST, AND ACTIVIST ~ MITZI J. SMITH
- PART 2: READING THE BIBLE AS A WOMANIST BIBLICAL SCHOLAR
- 8. A WOMANIST MIDRASH ON ZIPPORAH ~ WIL GAFNEY
- 9. FASHIONING OUR OWN SOULS: A WOMANIST READING OF THE VIRGIN-WHORE BINARY IN MATTHEW AND REVELATION ~ MITZI J. SMITH
- 10. A WOMANIST-POSTCOLONIAL READING OF THE AMARITAN WOMAN AT THE WELL AND MARY MAGDALENE AT THE TOMB ~ LYNNE ST. CLAIR DARDEN
- 11. MINJUNG, THE BLACK MASSES, AND THE GLOBAL IMPERATIVE: A WOMANIST READING OF LUKE'S SOTERIOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICAL CIRCLE ~ MITZI J. SMITH
- 12. WISDOM IN THE GARDEN: THE WOMAN OF GENESIS 3 AND ALICE WALKER'S SOPHIA ~ KIMBERLY DWAN RUSSAW
- 13. "KNOWING MORE THAN IS GOOD FOR ONE": A WOMANIST INTERROGATION OF THE MATTHEAN GREAT COMMISSION ~ MITZI J. SMITH
- 14. SILENCED STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL: FINDING LIFE IN DEATH IN THE BOOK OF RUTH ~ YOLANDA NORTON
- 15. "GIVE THEM WHAT YOU HAVE": A WOMANIST READING OF THE MATTHEAN FEEDING MIRACLE ~ MITZI J. SMITH
- 16. ACTS 9:36-43: THE MANY FACES OF TABITHA, A WOMANIST READING ~ FEBBIE C. DICKERSON
