Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
Semi-technical
Critical
Feminist

Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah

in Wisdom Commentary Series

by Wilda C. Gafney

5 Rank Score: 5.18 from 1 reviews, 1 featured collections, and 3 user libraries
Pages 264
Publisher Liturgical Press
Published 2017
ISBN-13 9780814681626
This volume offers a womanist and feminist analysis of the books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, attending to translation and textual issues, use of power and agency, and constructions of gender and its significance for the real and metaphorical women in the texts. The unit on Nahum takes an unflinching look at God's role and rhetoric in the rape of Nineveh and considers implications for the women of Nineveh and Israel and for contemporary readers. Habakkuk is read employing a womanist stratagem, talking back to God. The section on Zephaniah explores the racialized history of interpreting "Cushi" in Zephaniah's genealogy and the figures of Daughter Zion/Jerusalem. The commentary also assesses these texts as scriptures of synagogue and church, their use and utility. A Jewish feminist reading and womanist hermeneutic accompanies each biblical book.

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G Ware G Ware November 28, 2019
One might wonder how a commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah from a womanist perspective would even be possible, but Wilda Gafney brings the benefit of her hermeneutical approach as well as more traditional elements of commentary writing and various interpretive methodologies into an accessible and pastoral commentary.