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Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World II: Editorial Introduction

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  • In 2020, our first issue of “Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World” was published through Open Theology.[1]

  • We sought to “encourage a multiplicity of voices and a range of responses which might consider a wide variety of themes and topics but which would all connect via a singular focus: that of women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world.”[2]. Our call for papers was broad and fairly unrestricted, and the responses we received made use of the open scope, providing us with a range of topics, themes, and biblical characters which, when read together in the journal issue, presented the reader with an intellectual, spiritual, and political commentary about understanding the role of women, gender, and sexuality in the Bible and in our world

  • Siam Hatzaw offers a lucid analysis of the double-colonisation experienced by Asian women in diaspora, by reading Esther intersectionally as a postcolonial feminist icon in order to point to liberative ways of reading the biblical story

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Introduction

In 2020, our first issue of “Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World” was published through Open Theology.[1]. Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World II: Editorial Introduction 671 reception, maternity and motherhood, and representation more broadly.

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