Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible

Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, USA. She has published widely on the intersection of feminist, religion, and the Bible.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. From the "Woman's Bible" to the "Women's Bible": The History of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible 2. A Career As a Feminist Biblical Scholar: Four Stories 3. Gendering the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Considerations 4. Rape, Enslavement and Marriage: Sexual Violence in the Hebrew Bible5. Ruth, Jezebel and Rahab As "Other" Women: Integrating Postcolonial Perspectives6. Denaturalizing the Gender Binary: Queer and Masculinity Studies as Integral to Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics7. Essentializing "Woman": Three Neoliberal Strategies in Christian Right's Interpretations on Women in the Bible8. ConclusionsBibliographyIndex of ReferencesIndex of Authors

[A] stimulating, thought-provoking, and passionate sample of current and past scholarly voices by an author who clearly cares and who, by pointing to the androcentric aspects of the Bible, reminds readers that the personal is indeed the political.