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Whispering the Word: Hearing Women's Stories in the Old Testament

Whispering the Word: Hearing Women's Stories in the Old Testament Book Reviews / Horizons in Biblical Th eology 29 (2007) 223-253 231 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/187122007X244147 Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament by Jacqueline E. Lapsley. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2005. Pp. 154. $19.95. Jacqueline E. Lapsley’s (Associate Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Th eological Seminary) Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament is a compel- ling, thoughtful, and a fresh theological contribution on feminist hermeneutics of trust (contrast to hermeneutics of suspicion). After succinctly discussing the three schools of feminist thought—“loyalists” (the Bible oppresses women but the problem lie in the interpretation of the text), “revisionists” (coun- tertraditions that offer alternatives to the dominant), and “rejectionists” (rejects the Bible as authoritative) Lapsley says, “I undertake this book convinced, in contrast, that confessional biblical interpretation is not a throwback to the “second phase” of feminist biblical criticism of the 1970s and 1980s, but should instead form a vocal, if distinctive, tradition within the feminist biblical criticism of the future” (p.5). Th ree biblical passages are examined—the voice of Rachel in the Book of Genesis, the Narrator’s perspective in the Concubine and the Levite narrative (Judges 19-21), http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Horizons in Biblical Theology Brill

Whispering the Word: Hearing Women's Stories in the Old Testament

Ahn, John
Horizons in Biblical Theology , Volume 29 (2): 231 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews / Horizons in Biblical Th eology 29 (2007) 223-253 231 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/187122007X244147 Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament by Jacqueline E. Lapsley. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2005. Pp. 154. $19.95. Jacqueline E. Lapsley’s (Associate Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Th eological Seminary) Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament is a compel- ling, thoughtful, and a fresh theological contribution on feminist hermeneutics of trust (contrast to hermeneutics of suspicion). After succinctly discussing the three schools of feminist thought—“loyalists” (the Bible oppresses women but the problem lie in the interpretation of the text), “revisionists” (coun- tertraditions that offer alternatives to the dominant), and “rejectionists” (rejects the Bible as authoritative) Lapsley says, “I undertake this book convinced, in contrast, that confessional biblical interpretation is not a throwback to the “second phase” of feminist biblical criticism of the 1970s and 1980s, but should instead form a vocal, if distinctive, tradition within the feminist biblical criticism of the future” (p.5). Th ree biblical passages are examined—the voice of Rachel in the Book of Genesis, the Narrator’s perspective in the Concubine and the Levite narrative (Judges 19-21),

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