The Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible (FHB) section will offer the following sessions at the 2019 meeting.
Open Call
FHB issues an open call for papers using feminist, womanist, mujerista or other cognate ideological frames to read biblical texts, broadly defined. Special consideration will be given to papers that apply feminist hermeneutical methodologies to the examination of public discourse and the use of biblical texts in political speech.
Invited Panels
FHB will present an invited panel of seven biblical scholars to discuss the intersection(s) of White Supremacy and Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics.
Cosponsored Panels
FHB co-sponsor with Gender, Sexuality and the Bible an invited panel that will review the collection of essays by Susanne Scholz, The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress, 2017).
FHB will co-sponsor with the Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion an invited panel on Womanist and Feminist Dialogical Interpretation.
FHB will co-sponsor with Asian and Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, and Minoritized Criticisms and Biblical Interpretation an invited panel celebrating the contributions of Dr. Gale Yee to biblical studies, with particular focus on her contributions to Asian and Asian American and Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible.