Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. A prolific author and editor, she has pioneered alternative approaches to biblical interpretation in such works as Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible (2010), The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible (2017), and The New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic (coeditor, 2021), all from Fortress Press.
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Introduction: On a Conceptual Feminist Interpretation of 1 Samuel 1 Detailing the Geopolitics of Land and Gender 2 Displaying the Masculinities of Major and Minor Male Characters 3 Determining the Specter of Monarchy at the End of Democracy 4 Decolonizing Foreskin Talk about the Nation and the Philistines 5 Detecting the Erasure of Women and the Inscription of a Witch Conclusion: Knowing, Deconstructing, and Resisting as a Feminist Exegetical Practice Glossary Works Cited Indexes