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Korean Feminists in Conversation with the Bible, Church and Society

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This book offers scholars and students outside Korea some insight into what forms feminist biblical interpretation takes in Korea and what approaches Korean feminists adopt for dealing with the Bible in their writing and their professional lives.

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This book offers scholars and students outside Korea some insight into what forms feminist biblical interpretation takes in Korea and what approaches Korean feminists adopt for dealing with the Bible in their writing and their professional lives.

The contributors to this book represent a wide spectrum of the Korean feminist Christian movement. They include university and seminary teachers, ministers, and field workers. This book is a product of their numerous meetings and discussions on the practical issues that define contemporary Korean women’s lives. In it, the contributors reflect on the diverse situations modern Korean women have faced and continue to struggle with, among them, the traditional religious culture based on Confucianism, economic globalization, postcolonialism, the problems of migrant women labourers, and the trauma of being forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II. They view these situations in the light of the lives and experiences of women in the Old and New Testaments, and they look to the Bible for resources for dealing with them.

This is socially engaged biblical interpretation. It goes beyond the academic study of the Bible to a wider engagement with the church and with Korean society.

The volume is published in cooperation with Ewha Institute for Women’s Theological Studies.

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KYUNG SOOK LEE Neo-Confucian Ideology in the Interpretation of the Book of Ruth: Toward a Cross-checking Hermeneutics YEONG MEE LEE Motherhood as a Theological Model for Redemption in the Hebrew Bible EUN AE LEE Marriage by Purchase? Mohar in the Hebrew Bible and Korean Society KYUNG MI PARK Reading Matthew 20.1-16 from a Non-Developmentalist Perspective HYUN JU BAE Embracing Life and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Compassion in Detachment SEONG HEE KIM Our (Neither) Mother and (Nor) Father in Heaven: A Postcolonial Reading of the Lord's Prayer SOON YOUNG KIM Personal Reflections on Feminist Ministry as a Transforming Power KUK YOM HAN Migrant Women and Intermarriage in Korea: Looking at Human Rights with Help from the Book of Ruth YANI YOO Women's Leadership Fragmented: Examples from the Bible and the Korean Church MI KANG YANG Lessons about Healing: Korean Comfort Women and the Hemorrhaging Woman of Mark 5

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Editors
Kyung Sook Lee, Kyung Mi Park
List Price
£50 / $85 / €65
Series
Bible in the Modern World, 24
Scholars' Price
£25 / $42.50.50 / €32.50
ISBN 13 hardback
978-1-906055-71-4
Format
Hardback
Page Extent
xiv + 128
Publication Date
Sep-11
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