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Women Reading Texts on Marriage

achaudhry{at}mail.colgate.edu

Rachel Muers

r.e.muers{at}leeds.ac.uk

Randi Rashkover

rrashkov{at}gmu.edu

We present readings, by Jewish, Christian and Muslim women scholars, of `difficult' texts from three scriptural traditions, viz. Ephesians 5.21-33, Sura' 4.32-35 and Genesis 30.1-26. All three texts concern marriage and point in different ways to the erasure of women's significance or agency, and we ask what happens when women read such texts as scripture. Our readings were developed in conversation with one another, following the developing practice of `Scriptural Reasoning', and they suggest ways in which the texts and their feminist readers can `correct' and challenge each other. We propose that feminist biblical hermeneutics and inter-traditional scriptural reasoning can be mutually informative, with both practices seeking to take embodied difference seriously and to allow unresolved critical questions to arise in reading.

Key Words: feminist hermeneutics • marriage • scriptural reasoning

Feminist Theology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 191-209 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0966735008098723


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