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Rebecca Lindsay reads the book of Ruth from her location in Australia, paying attention to the impacts of colonization on biblical interpretation. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods, including decolonial studies, this volume places the book of Ruth in conversation with texts from Australia and stories from Linday’s own experience, revealing common themes of home, land, memory, and identity. Engagement with Indigenous voices and settler colonial studies leads to an honest grappling with the challenges of decolonizing biblical interpretation. Scholars and students of both biblical studies and Australian studies will discover how to adopt the embodied reading postures of feet on the ground, being in relationship, ceding control, and attending to justice. Lindsay’s embodied interpretive approach offers an alternative to the colonial legacies of biblical hermeneutics as it is practiced today.

Rebecca Lindsay is Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at the United Theological College, part of the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University, and an ordained Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church in Australia. Her dissertation won the 2023 Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence and went on to receive a commendation in the 2024 Lyndall Ryan Thesis Award for Australian Studies.

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