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READING THE BIBLE AS WOMEN: PERSPECTIVES FROM AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA
Editor: Phyllis A. Bird
Guest Editors: Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and Sharon H. Rirtge
Editorial Consultants:Seung Ai Yang, Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango

CONTENTS

Introduction Phyllis A. Bird, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld,and Sharon H. Ringe

1.Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible Musa W. Dube
2. Childlessness and Woman-to-Woman Relationships in Genesis and in African Patriarchal Society: Sarah and Hagar from a Zimbabwean Woman's Perspective Gen 16:1-16; 27:5 -21) Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango
3. Han-Laden Women: Korean "Comfort Women" and Women in Judges 19-21 Yani Yoo
4. Returning Home: The Inspiration of the Role Dedifferentiation in the Book of Ruth for Taiwanese Women Julie Li-Chuan Chu
5. Proverbs 31:10-31 in a South African Context: A Reading for the Liberation of African (Northern Sotho) Women Madipoane Masenya
6. Borderless Women and Borderless Texts:A Cultural Reading of Matthew 15:21-28 Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz
7. Reading the Bible "with" Women in Poor and Marginalized Communities in South Africa (Mark 5:21-6:1) Malika A. Sibeko and Beverley G. Haddad
8. Polarity or Partnership? Retelling the Story of Martha and Mary from Asian Women's Perspective (Luke 10:38-42) Ranjini Rebera
9. A Korean Feminist Reading of John 4:1-42 Jean K. Kim
10. The Transformative Potential of Ephesians in a Situation of Transition Elna Mouton
RESPONSES
A North American Perspective Antoinette Clark Wire (U.S.A.)
The Indian Voice Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon (India)
About "The Other" and "The This" Ahida Cama-Calderón and Mercedes García Bachmann