Document Type
Book Review
Department
Religion (CGU)
Publication Date
2003
Disciplines
African American Studies | Biblical Studies | Comparative Methodologies and Theories | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Women's Studies
Abstract
I take great delight in having the opportunity to review this collection ofthirteen essays having to do with contemporary African women and their engagements of the Bible. Ably edited and introduced by Musa W. Dube, Senior Lecturer in the New Testament in the Department ofTheology and Religious Studies at the University ofBotswana, the essays have been long awaited. They fill a tremendous need--among and beyond the women of Africa. They inform and challenge and inspire communities far beyond the circle ofthe discussants in the book. They make a dramatic statement about the powerful voices and sentiments and creative impulses of African women and their potential to enliven thinking about and approaches to the Bible in particular and the sacred in general. The volume is also a fine contribution to the growing phenomenon of the heightened consciousness and re-awakening among non-dominants throughout the world--different racial-ethnic minority groups, women, the poor-about the social power to be realized in the interpretation of texts and other objects and phenomena widely regarded as canonical.
Rights Information
© 2003 Society of Biblical Literature
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Recommended Citation
Wimbush, Vincent L. Rev. of Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible, ed. Musa W. Dube. Shofar: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 21.3 (2003): 167-169.
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African American Studies Commons, Biblical Studies Commons, Comparative Methodologies and Theories Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Women's Studies Commons
