Task Force:                                                                       The New Feminist Biblical Criticism

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Focus:

This Task Force began in the late 1980s as the Feminist Hermeneutics Task Force
and is the longest running Task Force of the CBA. The change of name signals the
breadth of feminist criticism as an academic discipline today and its importance for
the study of the Bible. Feminist biblical criticism continues to grow and diversify. As
currently practiced, feminist criticism supports and encourages a wide range of
ideological approaches such as gender criticism, womanist criticism, LGBTQ+
criticism, postcolonial criticism, masculinity studies, critical race studies, disability
studies, and other minority criticisms. The New Feminist Criticism Task Force
embraces all of these marginalized voices and seeks to recognize their contributions
by foregrounding intersectionality in its approach to biblical criticism.

Intersectional approaches to the biblical text take account of people’s multiple, differing,
and sometimes shifting, experiences and identities. Intersectionality
thus provides a framework for understanding how a person's various social and
political identities combine to produce different forms of discrimination and advantage.

In addition to its focus on intersectionality, the New Feminist Criticism Task Force
seeks to foreground current issues of concern to people today, issues such as sexism,
racism, homophobia, war, violence, poverty, climate change, human rights,
reproductive justice, disinformation, among many others. We believe this Task Force is
a place where resources for addressing contemporary concerns can be shared and
many of these issues can be profitably explored.

Co-conveners:

• Carol J. Dempsey, OP, University of Portland
• Sarah E. Kohles, OSF, Briar Cliff University
• Susanne Scholz, Perkins School of Theology

Program Details for 2025

3 Sessions: 1) A Celebration of J. Cheryl Exum: Her Work as a Feminist Biblical Scholar (a panel discussion); 2) A Review of Susanne Scholz's New Book: Doing Biblical Masculinity Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies (a panel discussion); 3) Reproductive Justice and Numbers 5 (a panel discussion). 

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Celebrating the Work of J. Cheryl Exum
and Eloise Rosenblatt, RSM (In Memoriam)

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• Reproductive Justice and the Bible (Numbers 5): A Panel Discussion

• Business Meeting 

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