Title: Divining John 7:53-8:11 for Textual Gender-Motivated Violence: A Postcolonial Approach
Abstract:This paper, by use of a postcolonial feminist hermeneutics, critiques the text of John 7:53-8:11. In doing this, it pays attention to Exum’s theory that “exposing gender-motivated violence in biblical...This paper, by use of a postcolonial feminist hermeneutics, critiques the text of John 7:53-8:11. In doing this, it pays attention to Exum’s theory that “exposing gender-motivated violence in biblical texts is a contribution feminist biblical literary criticism can make to the work of feminism as a political enterprise.” In this regard, it incorporates an African category ‘divination’ as fronted by Dube to show that John 7:53-8:11 is a text riddled with textual gender violence and its plain reading can be detrimental to the being of women. In the end this paper proposes an alternative reading of John 7:53-8:11.Read More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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