Letting the Other Speak: Proclaiming the Stories of Biblical Women

Tracy Hartman

doi:10.5771/9780739172551

Summary

From prostitutes to polygamy, witches to widows, foreigners to slaves, the Bible is full of texts about women who have been classified as “other” and pushed to the margins of society. In the academy, feminist, liberation and post-colonial theologians have challenged the disparaging categorization of these biblical women and redefined them as sacred insiders, whose contributions to Judeo-Christian history offer ongoing lessons about the inclusive nature of God. Letting the Other Speak: Proclaiming the Stories of Biblical Women helps pastors, Christian educators, professors and theological students bring the stories of six controversial biblical women to congregations by surveying historical and contemporary exegetical work on each passage, modeling exegeting a congregation in preparation for moving from text to sermon, and providing two sample sermons, one prophetic and one pastoral, for each text.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2011
Copyright Year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-6784-7
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-7255-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 125
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
2. Three's Company: Hagar in Genesis 16 and 21 No access Pages 9 - 24
3. Three Strikes and You're in: Rahab in Joshua 2 and 6 No access Pages 25 - 40
4. Who Needs eHarmony.com? The Story of Ruth No access Pages 41 - 56
5. Well Done, Medium! The Medium at Endor in I Samuel 28 No access Pages 57 - 74
6. Jesus, what were you Thinking? The Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21-28 No access Pages 75 - 92
7. Well, well, Fancy Meeting you Here No access Pages 93 - 108
8. Moving Beyond the Sermon No access Pages 109 - 116
Bibliography No access Pages 117 - 120
Index No access Pages 121 - 124
About the Author and Contributors No access Pages 125 - 125