Transgression and Transformation

L. Juliana Claassens is professor of Old Testament and Head of the Gender Unit in the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.Christl M. Maier is professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.Funlola Olojede is research associate and researcher at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: From Transgression to Transformation, L. Juliana Claassens, Christl M. Maier, and Funlola O. OlojedePART I: TRANSGRESSIVE CHARACTERS 1. Numbered with the Transgressors: The Story of the Daughters of Zelophehad as Retold by Noah, Funlola O. Olojede, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 2. Silence Breakers: Woman Zion & the #Metoo Movement: Lamentations 2.20-22 as Path to Resilience, Gina Hens-Piazza, Jesuit School of Theology, USA3. Reclaiming Jezebel and Mrs Job: Challenging Sexist Cultural Stereotypes and the Curse of Invisibility, Lerato Mokoena, University of Pretoria, South Africa4. Interventions to the Drama of a Broken Family in Jeremiah 2:1 – 4:4, Christl M. Maier, Philipps-Universität Marburg, GermanyPART II: TRANSGRESSIVE METHODOLOGIES5. Excavating Trauma Narratives: Haunting Memories in the Story of Lot’s Daughters, L. Juliana Claassens, Stellenbosch University, South Africa6. Normative Masculinities Turned Upside Down? Reading Gen 19:30-38 Side by Side with Selected African Proverbs, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele), University of South Africa, South Africa7. Justice for Rahab and the Gibeonites in the Book of Joshua? The Elusive Communities of Justice in Imperial/Colonial Contexts, Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango8. Postcolonial Botho//Ubuntu And Ruth: Women Networks and Agency in the Botswana Urban Space, Musa W Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana8. Come On, Come Out, Come Here, Come Here … : Queering Desire in the Story of Jacob, Leah And Rachel, Charlene van der Walt, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa9. Tamar Summons Jesus: A Trans-Textual (2 Sam 13:1-22, Mark 5:22-43, Matt 20:17-34) Search for Sectorial Solidarity with Respect to Gender and Masculinity, Gerald O. West, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaConcluding responseBibliographyIndex