Feminist New Testament Studies

Isabel BalseiroSheila BriggsGay L. ByronElizabeth A. CastelliNoelle ChampagneElizabeth Conde-FrazierLincoln E. GallowaySonya Y. GravleeHolly HightErin JacklinHisako KinukawaZhiru NgFiliberto NolassoPrinny PerelmanRosemary Radford RuetherElisabeth Schussler FiorenzaLydia SohnAfda Besanton SpencerKaren Jo TorjesenKatrina Van HeestVincent L. Wimbush

• Acknowledgments; K.O'Brien Wicker Introduction; A.Spencer-Miller Conversation I: Europe & North America The Power of the Word: Charting Critical Global Feminist New Testament Studies; E.Schussler Fiorenza Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique; E.Castelli Response; S.Briggs The Challenge of `Blackness' for Rearticulating the Meaning of Global Feminist New Testament Interpretation; G. L. Byron Response: Paradoxes of Positionality: The Key to Feminist New Testament Studies; K.J. Torjesen Reflections on Conversation I; S.Gravlee, E.Jacklin, P.Perelman Conversation II: Asia & Latin America My Journey as a Latin American Feminist New Testament Scholar; A.B. Spencer Response; E.C.Frazier Biblical Studies in the 21st Century: A Japanese/Asian Feminist Glimpse; H.Kinukawa Response; Z.Ng Feminist Theologies in Latin America; R.Radford Ruether Reflections on Conversation II; H.Hight, L.Sohn Conversation III: Africa & the Diaspora Rahab is Hanging Out a Red Ribbon: One African Woman's Perspective on the Future of Feminist New Testament Scholarship; M.W. Dube Response: From Scarlet Cord to Red Ribbon: A Perilous Passage; I.Balseiro Lucy Bailey Meets the Feminists; A.Spencer-Miller Response; L.E.Galloway Signifying on Scriptures: An African Diaspora Proposal for Radical Readings; L.Wimbush Reflections on Conversation III; N.Champagne, F.Nolasco, & K.Van Heest

"The contributors to this volume provide us with valuable resources and models to help students envision biblical studies in a critical and ethically responsible way. They carefully assess biblical studies and its relationship to women in all cultural contexts around the world and also dare to offer new interpretations for all of us." - Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt University, author of Ethics of Biblical Interpretation and general editor of Global Bible Commentary.