Reading the Bible as women : perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / editor, Phyllis A. Bird ; guest editors, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and Sharon H. Ringe ; editorial consultants, Seung Ai Yang, Leticia Guardiola-Sáenz, Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango.

Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia ; 78 | Semeia ; 78Publication details: Atlanta, GA : Scholars Press, c1997.Description: vi, 165 p. : 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.6 Se52 v.78
Partial contents:
Introduction / Phyllis A. Bird, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and Sharon H. Ringe -- Toward a postcolonial feminist interpretation of the bible / Musa W. Dube -- Childlessness and woman-to-woman relationships in genesis and in African patriarchal society / Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango -- Han-Laden women / Yani Yoo -- Returning home / Julie Li-Chuan Chu -- Proverbes 31:10-31 in a South African context / Madipoane Masenya -- Borderless women and borderless texts / Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz -- Reading the bible "with" women in poor and marginalized communities in South Africa (Mark 5:21-6:1) / Malika A. Sibeko and Beverley G. Haddad -- Polarity or partnership? / Ranjini Rebera -- A Korean feminist reading of John 4:1-42 / Jean K. Kim -- The transformative potential of Ephesians in a situation of transition / Elna Mouton -- Responses : A North American perspective / Antoinette Clark Wire (U.S.A.) -- The Indian voice / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon (India) -- About "the other" and "the this" / Ahida Cama-Calderón and Mercedes Garcia Bachmann.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Phyllis A. Bird, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and Sharon H. Ringe -- Toward a postcolonial feminist interpretation of the bible / Musa W. Dube -- Childlessness and woman-to-woman relationships in genesis and in African patriarchal society / Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango -- Han-Laden women / Yani Yoo -- Returning home / Julie Li-Chuan Chu -- Proverbes 31:10-31 in a South African context / Madipoane Masenya -- Borderless women and borderless texts / Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz -- Reading the bible "with" women in poor and marginalized communities in South Africa (Mark 5:21-6:1) / Malika A. Sibeko and Beverley G. Haddad -- Polarity or partnership? / Ranjini Rebera -- A Korean feminist reading of John 4:1-42 / Jean K. Kim -- The transformative potential of Ephesians in a situation of transition / Elna Mouton -- Responses : A North American perspective / Antoinette Clark Wire (U.S.A.) -- The Indian voice / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon (India) -- About "the other" and "the this" / Ahida Cama-Calderón and Mercedes Garcia Bachmann.

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