Womanist Midrash, Volume 2: A Reintroduction to the Women of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings - Softcover

Gafney, Wilda C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664266010 ISBN 13: 9780664266011

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2024

Synopsis

Womanist Midrash, Volume 2, continues Wilda Gafney’s unique and imaginative work of in-depth explorations of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. This volume focuses on women and girls in Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. As in her successful and widely read first volume, Gafney uses her own translations and offers midrashic interpretations of the biblical text rooted in the African American preaching and rabbinic traditions to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Grounded in rigorous scholarship, this volume employs solid womanist and feminist approaches to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical culture of the ancient Afro-Asiatic world, expanding conversations of and about biblical interpretation.

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About the Author

Wil Gafney is the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. A Womanist biblical scholar, she is the author of the four-volume series A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church and translator of its biblical selections. She is also the author of Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to Women of the Torah and the Throne; Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah in the Wisdom Commentary series; Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel; and coeditor of The Peoples' Bible and The Peoples' Companion to the Bible. She is an Episcopal priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and licensed in the Diocese of Texas and a former Army chaplain and congregational pastor in the AME Zion Church. A former member of the Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist Minyan of the Germantown Jewish Center in Philadelphia and affiliate member of Makom Shelanu Congregation in Fort Worth, she has co-taught courses with and for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Seminary in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. She is a preacher, teacher, activist, and an amateur watercolorist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0664266010
• ISBN 13: 9780664266011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278