Strangely familiar
Subtitle: protofeminist interpretations of patriarchal biblical texts
By: edited by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather E. Weir.
Contributors: Koyzis, Nancy Calvert.; Weir, Heather E.; Society of Biblical Literature. Meeting
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781589834538
Subjects: Bible -- Feminist criticism -- Congresses
Notes: Chiefly papers presented by the recovering female interpretation of the Bible consultation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature held Nov. 21-25, 2008 in Boston, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Assessing their place in history : female biblical interpreters as protofeminists / Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Heather E. Weir; title: Section 1: Protofeminist interpreters on texts of terror.  Reading Hagar's story from the margins : family resemblances between nineteenth- and twentieth-century female interpreters / Amanda W. Benckhuysen; title: Tamar's tale : Elizabeth Hands as a protofeminist theologian / Robert Knetsch; title: Trusting in the god of their fathers : a response to the articles by Robert Knetsch and Amanda Benckhuysen / J. Cheryl Exum; title: The resurrection of Jephthah's daughter : reading Judges 11 with nineteenth-century women / Marion Taylor; title: Envying Jephthah's daughter: Judges 11 in the thought of Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652) / Joy A. Schroeder; title: Protofeminist readings of biblical texts of terror : the need for critical analysis / Esther Fuchs; title: Nineteenth-century feminist responses to the laws in the Pentateuch / Christiana de Groot; title: Unhappy anniversary : women, marriage, and the biblical law in the writings of Annie Besant / Caroline Blythe; title: Divisions and orientations : a response to Caroline Blyth and Christiana de Groot / Philippa Carter; title: Section 2: Protofeminist interpretations of Pauline hierarchical texts. Antoinette Brown Blackwell : pioneering exegete and Congregational minister / Beth Bidlack; title: Gender, radicalism, and female preaching in nineteenth-century Britain : Catherine Booth's female teaching / Pamela J. Walker; title: Anoinette, Catherine, and Paul : a response / Sandra Hack Polaski; title: A Washington Bible class : the bloodless piety of Gail Hamilton / J. Ramsey Michaels; title: Women in high places, or women of lasting impact? / Ben Witherington III; title: Opposing Paul with Paul : Aemilia Lanyer's feminine theology / Hilary Elder; title: The maternity of Paul and the new community in Christ : a response to Hilary Elder / Nancy Calvert-Koyzis; title: From the Mediterranean to America : Lucy Meyer's biblical interpretation and the deaconess movement / Agnes Choi; title: Mary Baker Eddy : liberating interpreter of the Pauline corpus / Barry Huff; title: Response to Choi and Huff: Paul and women's leadership in American Christianity in the nineteenth century / Pauline Nigh Hogan.