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By Wilda C. Gafney

Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and inventive exploration of the good- and lesser-known ladies of the Hebrew Scriptures. utilizing her personal translations, Gafney deals a midrashic interpretation of the biblical textual content that's rooted within the African American preaching culture to inform the tales of a number of lady characters, a lot of whom are usually ignored and anonymous. Gafney employs a pretty good figuring out of womanist and feminist techniques to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical tradition of the traditional close to East. This special and creative paintings is grounded in critical scholarship and may extend conversations approximately feminist and womanist biblical interpretation.

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