Biblical Border Slippage and Feminist Postcolonial Criticism

The essay takes as its cue the biblical figures of Eve and Wisdom, both of whom slip through the divine/human border. Eve brings knowledge of good and evil and Wisdom offers a concern for human ethical choices. For what characterizes feminist and postcolonial studies is the hope and ideal of a futur...

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Main Author: McKinlay, Judith E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2020
In: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Year: 2020
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Postcolonialism / Eve / Wisdom / Boundary / Mirjam, Biblical person / Rahab the Prostitute / Achsah Biblical character / Memory
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Rahab’s reading prism
B Othering
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