Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: Biblical Books (Vol. 1) This is the first of a set of three volumes reviewing the progress of feminist Hebrew Bible scholarship over the last 40 years. In it, fourteen essayists focus on the feminist work on each of the biblical books. Each essay explores the range and depth of feminist exegesis, presents substantial yet easily digestible trends, preferences and perspectives in feminist scholarship, and demonstrates that feminist biblical approaches are not monolithic but diverse in feminist conviction, hermeneutics and method. The result of this collaborative task is a comprehensive though selective survey, which includes suggestions for future feminist engagement. What feminist biblical scholarship has accomplished during the past forty years is no small feat. But it becomes clear from this volume that much remains to be done in the pursuit of dismantling structures of gender domination in Hebrew Bible exegesis and beyond. Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament, Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, Texas. Series: Recent Research in Biblical Studies, 5 978-1-909697-07-2 hardback Publication October 2013 Available here: http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=245 And here: http://www.amazon.com/Feminist-Interpretation-Retrospect-Biblical-Research/dp/1909697079/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1422834726&sr=8-7&keywords=scholz%2C+susanne

Fundamentalism in Syria and Male-Heterosexist Supremacy Everywhere

[originally posted at www.frsinc.com on November 17, 2013]

http://www.fsrinc.org/blog/fundamentalism-syria-and-male-heterosexist-supremacy-everywhere

The Femen Movement in the Catholic Cathedral of Cologne and the Need for Gender Analysis Today

The Femen Movement in the Catholic Cathedral of Cologne and the Need for Gender Analysis Today

[originally posted at www.fsrinc.org on January 27, 2014]

http://www.fsrinc.org/blog/femen-movement-gender-analysis

In Memory of Anja Niedringhaus: Allahu akbar and the Murder of a Western Woman Journalist in Afghanistan

[originally posted at www.fsrinc.org on April 6, 2014]

http://www.fsrinc.org/blog/memory-anja-niedringhaus

Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
2014 International Meeting

Vienna, Austria

Meeting Begins: 7/6/2014
Meeting Ends: 7/10/2014
8-34a

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Biblical Criticism and Cultural Studies

7/08/2014
2:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Room: HS 28 - Hauptgebäude
Theme: Materialist Biblical Criticism: Figures and Movements
Fernando Segovia, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Steven Friesen, University of Texas at Austin
The Economics of the New Testament Interpretation: Invisible Hands at Work (30 min)
Brigitte Kahl, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Reading Mark with Marx? Fernando Belo Revisited 40 Years After (30 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Break (30 min)

Luis Menendez-Antuna, Vanderbilt University
A Revelation against Empire: A Material Reading of Liberationist Approaches to the Apocalypse of John (30 min)

Susanne Scholz, Southern Methodist University
Materializing German Old Testament Exegesis: The Social Historical Method in the Work of Willy Schottroff (30 min)
Discussion (15 min)

"Feminist Commentary upon Feminist Commentary.
A Report from the Feminist Biblical Trenches"

Edited by Susanne Scholz

in: lectio difficilior: European Electronic Journal for Feminist Exegesis 1 (2014): http://www.lectio.unibe.ch/14_1/scholz_susanne_feminist_commentary_upon_feminist_commentary.html

Just published this week of June 23, 2014!!

The actual article in in English; the abstract is in German:

"Für das Treffen der nordamerikanischen Sektion der ESWTR im November 2013 wurden die Podiumsteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer gebeten, die englische Übersetzung des Kompendium: Feministische Bibelauslegung (engl. Feminist Biblical Interpretation: A Compendium of Critical Commentary on the Books oft he Bible and Related Literature) zu kommentieren, die im Jahr 2012 erschienen ist. In diesem Artikel werden nun ein Teil dieser Kommentare und die damit einhergehenden Diskussionen sowie kritische Anfragen an das Kompendium schriftlich zugänglich gemacht. Die Beiträge der folgenden Autorinnen und Autoren sind hier veröffentlicht: Robert Wafawanaka, Martin Rumscheidt, Helen Leneman, Deborah Rooke, Dora R. Mbuwayesango, Johanna Erzberger und Marie-Theres Wacker."