These views are not necessarily the views of Victorian Collections. Or recorded but may not be considered appropriate today. Some material may contain terms that reflect authors’ views, or those of the period in which the item was written Content also may include images and film of places that may cause sorrow. Please be aware that this website may contain culturally sensitive material - images, voices and information provided by now deceased persons.Ĭontent also may include images and film of places that may cause sorrow.Īboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this website may contain culturally sensitive material - images, voices and information provided by now deceased persons. We celebrate the history and contemporary creativity of the world’s oldest living culture and pay respect to Elders - past, present and future. The volume succeeds in making Luke 1–9 relevant not only for feminists, but for the myriad Christian communities throughout the world.We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the place now called Victoria, and all First Peoples living and working on this land. ![]() Additionally, with the adept guidance of Amy-Jill Levine (volume editor), Reid and Matthews address and explicate the often glossed-over anti-Jewish elements of Luke’s Gospel. Reid and Matthews, up against a text that has been used simultaneously to liberate and oppress, and which mentions the word ‘wisdom’ only a handful of times, shine with their inclusion of scholars of diverse experiences, social locations, disciplines, and methodologies. What for me has always been the subject of exclusivist (as White, Western) scholarship, Luke has been made relevant by this multi-vocative work. “The authors do an exceptional job breaking down Luke 1–9 into nine accessible, informative, and groundbreaking sections. The format follows previous publications in this series: a conversation between two primary scholars with diverse voices of scholars punctuating each section. Reid, OP, and Shelly Matthews, is superbly done. Her most recent publications are Wisdom’s Feast: An Invitation to Feminist Interpretation of the Scriptures (Eerdmans, 2016) and Abiding Word: Sunday Reflections on Year A, B, C (3 vols. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is currently writing a monograph under the working title A Feminist Guide to Early Christian Resurrection: Justice, Authority, Presence. Her books include Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction and Study Guide: Taming the Tongues of Fire (T&T Clark, 2017). ![]() She is the general editor for the SBL Press series Early Christianity and Its Literature and the cofounder and cochair of the SBL Program Unit Racism, Pedagogy and Biblical Studies. Shelly Matthews holds a ThD from Harvard Divinity School and is professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas. Matthews and Reid draw attention to the ambiguities of the text-both the liberative possibilities and the ways that Luke upholds the patriarchal status quo-and guide readers to empowering reading strategies. Feminist biblical interpretation examines how the female characters function in the narrative and also scrutinizes the workings of power with respect to empire, to anti-Judaism, and to other forms of othering. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of female characters. Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention.
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