1 Samuel: A Conceptual Feminist Interpretation

Recent biblical studies, especially feminist interpretations, evince keen awareness of how the constitutive role of the contextual realities—for example, race, class, and gender—of the texts but also of the interpreters themselves, shapes our readings and the range of questions and insights they yield. With critical awareness of these realities, whole new vistas open up on the Bible and its world.

First Samuel presents a surprisingly fruitful test case for such interpretations, shedding imp...