Feminist Hermeneutics

Alternate Labels

Feminist Criticism
Feminist Interpretation
Feminist Biblical Interpretation

Web Links

Wikipedia: Feminist Literary Criticism

Reading List

Introductory Articles

Feminist Biblical Interpretation | Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
Feminist Hermeneutics | The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary

Essays

Beverley Clack, “Surviving Scripture: Developing a Feminist Hermeneutic of the New Testament” | Approaches to New Testament Study
Paula Gooder with Kathy Ehrensperger, “Feminist Criticism” | Searching for Meaning: An Introduction to Interpreting the New Testament
Tina Pippin, “Ideological Criticisms, Liberation Criticisms, and Womanist and Feminist Criticisms” | Handbook to Exegesis of the New Testament
Mary Ann Tolbert, “Defining the Problem: The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics” | Semeia 28: The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics

Studies that Engage Feminist Hermeneutics

Claudia V. Camp | Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible
J. Cheryl Exum | Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives
J. Cheryl Exum | Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women
Esther Fuchs | Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman
Margaret Elizabeth Köstenberger | Jesus and the Feminists: Who Do They Say That He Is?
Silvia Schroer and Sophia Bietenhard, eds. | Feminist Interpretation of the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation
Mary Ann Tolbert, ed. | Semeia 28: The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics

Exegesis of Gender Role Passages

Women Are Saved Through Bearing Children (1 Timothy 2.11–15) | Krijn A. Van Der Jagt
Silence Of Women In The Church | Daniel C. Arichea, Jr.
Authority, Women, And Angels: Translating 1 Corinthians 11.10 | W. Gerald Kendrick
The treatment of gender issues in the Good News Study Bible | W. Gerald Kendrick
“As in all the Churches of the Saints” (1 Corinthians 14.33) | Graham Clarke
Today’s New International Version: The Untold Story of a Good Translation, “The famous gender role passages” | Craig L. Blomberg

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