The Ten Commandments condone slavery, and Deuteronomy 22 deems the rape of an
unmarried woman to injure her father rather than the woman herself. While many Christians …

The representation of sexual trafficking in the book of Esther has parallels with the cultural
memories, histories, and materialized pain of African (a) girls and women across time and …

African biblical scholarship is historically post-colonial, theoretically tri-polar, and
ideologically a site-of-struggle. In this essay, I reflect on nearly 90 years of African biblical …

Rape culture is reportedly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Culture, patriarchy, poverty and
religion continue to sustain rape culture. The notions of the objectification of women's bodies …

In recent decades, research in the field of biblical studies has expanded rapidly because of
the emergence of new methodological paradigms to research in biblical studies. The new …

“In an age where the 'body of knowledge'on Reformation and Transformation is actually
characterized by 'dis-embodiedness' Elisabeth Gerle provides us with this book about …

The “time of African existence,” argues Achille Mbembe, can be characterised as “the time of
entanglement,” for,“this time of African existence is neither a linear time nor a simple …

The Old Testament world clearly subjected the woman to the will and protection of her
husband, but she was also celebrated for performing important roles as wife and mother …

Abstract In this chapter, Susanne Scholz reviews some definitive works by feminist biblical
scholars working with biblical rape texts; specifically, she uses the Title IX federal law (which …

This dissertation advocates a reading of the book of Esther through the lens of Mikhail
Bakhtin's literary concepts dialogism, chronotope, and carnival. The specific focus of the …