A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within

Vanessa Lovelace (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0699-6 (ISBN)

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The U.S. Declaration of Independence of 1776 decreed that all men were created equal and were endowed by their Creator with “certain unalienable Rights.” Yet, U.S.-born free and enslaved Black people were not recognized as citizens with “equal protections under the law” until the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Even then, White supremacists impeded the equal rights of Black people as citizens due to their beliefs in the inferiority of Black people and that America was a nation for White people. White supremacists turned to biblical passages to lend divine justification for their views. A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within analyzes select biblical narratives including Noah’s curse in Genesis 9, Sarah and Hagar in Genesis 16 and 21, Mother in Israel in Judges 5, and Jezebel, Phoenician Princess and Queen of Israel in 1 and 2 Kings, to demonstrate how these narratives were first used by ancient biblical writers to include some and exclude others as members of the nation of Israel and then appropriated by White supremacists in the antebellum and early twentieth century periods to do the same in America. The book analyzes the simultaneously intersecting and interconnecting relations between race, gender, class, and sexuality and biblical narratives to construct boundaries between “us versus them,” particularly the politicization of motherhood to deny certain groups’ inclusion.

Vanessa Lovelace is associate dean and associate professor of Hebrew Bible Old Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Womanist Biblical Interpretation and the Politics of Belonging

Chapter 1: “This Woman’s Son Shall Not Inherit with My Son”: The Politics of Motherhood in the Sarah-Hagar Narratives

Chapter 2: Outsider Within: A Vineyard, a Curse, and US Racial Politics

Chapter 3: Mammies, Jezebels, Prophetesses, and Royal Women: Symbolic Border Guards in the Deuteronomistic History

Chapter 4: Mothers in Israel, Church Mothers, and Mothers of the Nation

Chapter 5: Final Thoughts of an Academic Outsider Within

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Erscheinungsdatum	21.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Womanist Readings of Scripture
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 238 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-9787-0699-5 / 1978706995
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-0699-6 / 9781978706996
Zustand	Neuware