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defrogWell, on the bright side, this completes my classroom reading assignments for the academic year, so I might be able to pick up the pace with books that don’t require as much brainpower to read. As opposed to:
The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives by Gale A. YeeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is another textbook assigned to a class on the Old Testament I’ve been taking for the past academic year, but hey it counts, right? As the title implies, it’s essentially a short collection of essays that provide an overview to the basics of feminist and intersections perspectives. The introduction provides an overview of the field of feminist theology itself, while the four essays are essentially pro tips for freshman feminist theology students looking at specific sections of the OT (Pentateuch, Deuteronomy, the prophets, etc), highlighting kinds of issues raised by feminist interpretations of the text, starting points for further study, etc.
If, like me, you know next to nothing about feminist theology, even as a brief overview, there’s lots to chew on, given the obvious patriarchal perspective of the OT’s writers and editors, to say nothing of the patriarchal and highly sexist culture of ancient Israel and the Levant itself. Obviously, what readers make of it will depend greatly on their opinions about feminism in general (favorable or otherwise), their feelings about interpretations of Scripture that depart from established orthodoxy, and their tolerance for dry, intellectual academic prose. (I mean, it IS an academic textbook for university-level studies, meaning the target audience is students taking a class that covers this topic.)
So, my rating is more of a reflection of the fact that, as someone who has only ever encountered feminist theology in passing, I learned things I didn’t know before. So there you go.
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