Reading the Hebrew Bible through Marginal/ized Female Characters
Reading women’s stories in the Hebrew Bible using feminist and womanist questions and perspectives reveals a Bible so different from the one with which readers have previously been acquainted that it may seem like a new book.
See Also: Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne (Westminster John Knox Press, 2017).
By Wil Gafney
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
Brite Divinity School
January 2018
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