L. Juliana Claassens

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This is a wonderful book! Continuing a 40+ year conversation on the Bible and ethics between Birch and Rasmussen, this book introduces the voices of Lapsley and Moe-Lobeda, so extending the initial conversation into exciting new directions. The strength of this book is situated in the way the authors continue to reflect on the original questions in the face of ever new challenges such as climate change, growing equality and poverty, structural injustice in terms of race, gender and sexual orientation and the reality of more refugees and displaced person than any time since World War II. Compulsory reading for students and believers who are wrestling with the questions of moral formation and the role the Bible plays in complex ethical questions in our modern world.”

Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Weaving together perspectives from musicology and irony, Jonathan Kruschwitz offers an incisive analysis of the stories of Hagar, Dinah, and Tamar, who each in her own right has made her way into the ancestral narrative. Insightful, wise, and thoroughly convincing, Kruschwitz’s reading of these strange stories as interludes to the ancestral narrative demonstrates the importance of listening carefully to the new thematic overtones bestowed upon us by these interludes that forever changes how we view the dominant storyline.”

Let Your Voice Be Heard

Theology

“Creating a rich theological dialogue rooted in cross-disciplinary inquiry, Reisinger makes room at the table for those who in the past have been overlooked and undervalued. In Let Your Voice Be Heard, we are challenged to rethink our perceptions of margin and center, discovering the creative potential situated in the diversity of voices at the margins of the church.”

The Power of Equivocation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Complexity, ambiguity, tensions, paradox, multiplicity. The Hebrew Bible is comfortable with all of these, so why aren't we? As a feminist, Jewish interpreter Amy Kalmanofsky helps us see and appreciate the complexities and ambiguities in a number of engaging interpretations of biblical stories of female characters. But she also helps us to be aware of the complexity of us as readers and the multiple roles and identities that impact what we see, or do not see, in the text and in the world. We need this book on equivocal readings of the Hebrew Bible now more than ever, as we, individually and collectively, struggle to regain our footing in a post-pandemic world in which uncertainty and insecurity have become the new normal.”

The Proverbial Woman

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Amy Chase offers a fresh reading of the Proverbial Woman in Proverbs 31 that emphasizes the ambiguities and tensions that a dialogical reading of this text in its social context(s) offers. Attending to the role of narratology, affect theory, and feminist biblical interpretation, Chase helps the reader see that it is not unimportant which narrative we tell as words indeed create worlds.”