Bible, Culture, Power and Justice

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This advanced seminar will explore how culture, power, and justice affect the ways we read the Bible will draw on global readings of the Bible as well as intentionally contextual readings from the United States, including womanist, feminist, Asian-American, Latina, Black and other hermeneutical approaches. To deepen our understanding of how all interpretation is contextual, we will also consider readings from the dominant androcentric, North Atlantic strands of history of interpretation and engage ethnography of reading. We will consider and perform biblical interpretation as ethical activity. Evaluation will be based on seminar participation and leadership, two critical interpretive papers and a final essay constructing a personal hermeneutic. This class is open to M.Div. and other masters degree students, can be leveled up for D.Min. and Ph.D. students.