Bloomsbury Breaking Boundaries: Female Biblical Interpreters Who Challenged the Status Quo (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies): 524

Product Description Women throughout the centuries have sought to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed appropriate for them. While people often believe that the feminist movements in Britain and North America began in the late twentieth century, this is certainly not the case. For interpreters in the Christian tradition, this often meant examining biblical texts that had been understood in ways that demeaned women and using their interpretations to encourage women to break out of their culturally proscribed spheres. Review The business of recovering women interpreters of biblical texts is still in its early stages of research, and the field owes a deep debt of gratitude to these intrepid investigators and their collaborators who have contributed to Breaking Boundaries... The editors appear to have asked writers to be particularly careful to establish the intellectual and socio-cultural context of each of the women considered, and in the best of the articles this contextualization lends a fascinating light on the hermeneutical issues involved in the particular interpreter's work. -- Carol A. Newsom, Emory University ― Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception Vol 3 No 1 (2013) About the Author Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Ph.D. (1993), University of Sheffield, teaches part time at the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Her publications include Paul, Monotheism and the People of God: The Significance of Abraham for Early Jewish and Christian Identity (T&T Clark/Continuum: 2004). Heather Weir, Th.D., (2008), Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, is an instructor at Wycliffe. She co-edited Let Her speak for Herself: Nineteenth Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006).