Claiming Space in the Bible and Beyond is an illuminating and lively engagement with space-informed theories, methodologies, and unfinalized liberating hermeneutics. In a series of dialogic, highly nuanced, and contextually focused essays, this book combines critical theories about space, fluid and contested embodiments of space and spatial identities, and the exegetical and hermeneutical work of (biblical) interpretation that aims at intersectional liberation and flourishing. This book is theoretical and pedagogical and is sure to be a good companion into and out of various spaces where the marginalized live and work for freedom. * Kenneth N. Ngwa, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA * This outstanding volume aptly turns its intersectional attention to space, which is more than a heuristic tool. The authors are actually creating liberative space in todays communal and socio-political contexts, while exposing the invisibility of others in invited spaceswhether in biblical texts, interpretations, or art. This collective work significantly contributes to biblical scholarship by theorizing space and spatializing biblical interpretations. Readers will be surprised by the authors creative and engaging interpretations, navigating the performed space in this book. * Jin Young Choi, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School * Claiming Space in the Bible and Beyond is not only a theoretically exciting contribution to biblical scholarship, but it also provides fascinating discussions of different kinds of space gendered, national, artistic, economic, imagined, lived, contested that are of pressing relevance for understanding biblical texts, their receptions, and the socio-political locations that are marked by these receptions. * Hannah M. Strømmen, Senior Lecturer in Bible, Politics, and Culture at Lund University, and Wallenberg Academy Fellow * The Bible is a tool (to borrow Audre Lordes framing) with which physical, ideological, and theological spaces are constructed, contested, and claimed. The contributors use this tool to make space for minoritized gender, sexuality, and economic subjects. This book is empowering and homing, a useful tool. * Jione Havea, adjunct professor, biblical studies, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Australia *
