One of the top books of 2022 in our annual Books of the Year is Joy A. Schroeder and Marion Ann Taylor’s Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters Through the Centuries (WJK). At this year’s Society of Biblical Literature an entire session was dedicated to this book. Four respondents followed by two follow-up responses by the authors. The four respondents were Jaime Clark-Soles, Mitzi Smith, Eunjoo Kim, and me. I am honored that each of the respondents has agreed to post their responses here at Tov Unleashed. Today’s post is by Eunjoo Mary Kim.
Your question “Should all the interpretations offered by women be regarded as equally valuable?” leads to its corollary: “Should all the interpretations offered by men be regarded as equally valuable?” Realizing that we need to test the “spirits” of women it likewise reminds us that the same goes for men.
Your question “Should all the interpretations offered by women be regarded as equally valuable?” leads to its corollary: “Should all the interpretations offered by men be regarded as equally valuable?” Realizing that we need to test the “spirits” of women it likewise reminds us that the same goes for men.