Description: "This commentary provides feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. It addresses not only issues of gender but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism"--
Brief description:
Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the Carroll Stuhlmueller, CP Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies, and president emerita of Catholic Theological Union (the first woman who held the position). She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014-2015. Her most recent publications are Luke 1-9 and Luke 10-24, co-authored with Shelly Matthews (WCS 43A, 43B; Liturgical Press, 2021); and At the Table of Holy Wisdom: Global Hungers and Feminist Biblical Interpretation (Paulist, 2023).
Review Quotes: "In Wire's analysis, what most concerns Paul is whether the Corinthian assembly, where evidently he is marginal `among a swirl of leading voices, ' `can recognize Paul's beleaguered work as valid if he recognizes `the spirit of the living God' in them.' Maybe Paul should have found this a simple challenge. He didn't, and this new work, from one of the most innovative interpreters of Paul in her generation, lays out the contexts--philosophical, political, social, scriptural, and personal--and interactions that explain Paul's involved, ambivalent defense. A work in active dialogue with many facets of scholarship, church, and women's experience, its concise reasoning invites a close reading that paradoxically impels the reader forward in excitement."Robert B. Coote, Senior Research Professor of Hebrew Exegesis and Old Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary