Research Catalog

Title

I found God in me : a womanist biblical hermeneutics reader / edited by Mitzi J. Smith.

Publication

• Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2015]
• ©2015

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Smith, Mitzi J. (Mitzi Jane)

Description

xi, 312 pages; 23 cm

Summary

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. -- Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Bible > Black interpretations
• Bible > Feminist criticism
• Bible > Hermeneutics
• Bible
• Womanist theology
• African American women > Religious life
• Black interpretations
• Feminist criticism
• Hermeneutics

Note

• "This ... reader brings together eight classic essays, one new essay on womanist interpretation, six new original womanist readings of biblical texts, plus three reprints of womanist biblical interpretation readings written within the last three years."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part 1. Alice Walker's Womanist and womanist interpretative theory. "Womanist" / by Alice Walker -- Womanist interpretations of the New Testament: the quest for holistic and inclusive translation and interpretation / by Clarice J. Martin -- Re-reading for liberation: African American women and the Bible / by Renita J. Weems -- Womanist interpretation and preaching in the Black church / by Katie Geneva Cannon -- An African methodology for South African biblical sciences: revisiting the Bosadi (womanhood) approach / by Madipoane J. Masenya -- Marginalized people, liberating perspectives: a womanist approach to biblical interpretation / by Kelly Brown Douglas -- Our mothers' gardens: discrete sources of reflection on the cross in womanist christology / by JoAnne Marie Terrell -- "This little light of mine": the womanist biblical scholar as prophetess, iconoclast, and activist / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Part 2. Reading the Bible as a womanist biblical scholar. A womanist midrash on Zipporah / by Wil Gafney -- Fashioning our own souls: a womanist reading of the virgin-whore binary in Matthew and Revelation / by Mitzi J. Smith -- A womanist-postcolonial reading of the Samaritan woman at the well and Mary Magdalene at the tomb / by Lynne St. Clair Darden -- Minjung, the Black masses, and the global imperative: a womanist reading of Luke's soteriological hermeneutical circle / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Wisdom in the garden: the woman of Genesis 3 and Alice Walker's Sophia / by Kimberly Dawn Russaw -- "Knowing more than is good for one": a womanist interrogation of the Matthean great commission / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Silenced struggles for survival: finding life in death in the book of Ruth / by Yolanda Norton -- "Give them what you have": a womanist reading of the Matthean feeding miracle (Matt 14:13-21) / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Acts 9:36-43: the many faces of Tabitha, a womanist reading / by Febbie C. Dickerson.

Call Number

Sc E 18-355

ISBN

• 9781625647450
• 162564745X

LCCN

• 2015300926
• 40024770870

OCLC

• 904280850
• 904280850

Title

I found God in me : a womanist biblical hermeneutics reader / edited by Mitzi J. Smith.

Publisher

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

ED: ASHLAND THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, DETROIT. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED ESSAYS.

Added Author

Smith, Mitzi J. (Mitzi Jane), editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40024770870

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-355