Genesis (Texts @ Contexts)

De-centering the predominant first-world orientation of past biblical scholarship, the Texts @ Contexts series presents cutting-edge scholarship on select books of the Bible from authors writing from a rich array of social, cultural, and ethnic locations, all participants in the Society of Biblical Literature's Contextual Biblical Interpretation Section. The result is a series of dazzlingly new and thought-provoking readings that foreground the perspectives and commitments of the interpreters as well as issues of identity, ethnicity, gender, class, location, and power, offered for a diverse and increasingly globalized world. Genesis foregrounds cultural readings of subjects including ancestry and immigration, dreams and naming, Diaspora and exile, leadership and land, feuds and godliness.

Athalya Brenner is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Roslyn and Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence at Brite Divinity School (Fort Worth, Texas). She is general editor of the Feminist Companion to the Bible.

Archie Chi-Chung Lee is Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and author of numerous essays.

Gale A. Yee is Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Her books include Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea (1987) and Jewish Feasts and the Gospel of John (1989); she also edited Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies (Fortress Press, 1995).