Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation

Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger is a Lise Meitner Research Fellow at the University of Münster. She has published widely in feminist interpretation and reader response criticism.

• Introduction 1 The guarded personal voice of a male European-American biblical scholar 2 My personal voice: The making of a postcolonial critic 3 The function of the non-fulfilled promises: Reading the Pentateuch from the perspective of the Latin-American oppressed people 4 Mark’s open ending and following Jesus on the way: An autobiographical interpretation of the Gospel of Mark 5 Fathers and sons: Fragments from an autobiographical midrash on John’s Gospel 6 Reading and sense-experiencing the Gospel of John 7 An adventure with Nicodemus 8 Border crossing and meeting Jesus at the well: An autobiographical re-reading of the Samaritan woman’s story in John 4:1–44 9 Reading the Letter to the Galatians from an apartheid and a post-apartheid perspective 10 My reading of 1 John in Africa 11 A self-conscious reader-response interpretation of Romans 13:1–7 12 A re-evaluation of Hosea 1–2: Philology informed by life experience 13 Revolting Revelation

'... fascinating collection of thirteen essays offering reading of various biblical texts ... The sheer range of geographical spread and social background of the contributors (so crucial to the aims of the book as a whole) is impressive ... this is certainly a volume worth investigating' - Larry Kreitzer, The Expository Times