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THE 205: Biblical Texts in Global Contexts (Wheeler): Ecological/Feminist/LGBTQ+ Commentaries

Ecological Commentaries

Book cover of Earth Bible Commentary

Earth Bible Commentary series "provides ecological readings of biblical texts, focusing on some of the core issues facing the world today" 

Books (still being published) will cover each book of the Bible

 

Feminist Commentaries

Queer Commentary

Class Activity: Commentary through Contemporary Lenses

  1. Look up the same passage that you searched in the book-length commentary (for example: Joshua 2) in one of the commentaries below from global / diverse perspectives:
  2. Enter your passage and something that you learned about it from the online commentary as well as the book from the lower floor on the OneDrive Document

Global Commentaries

Global commentaries provide perspectives on the Biblical text written by authors from beyond the U.S. or Western Europe.

Online + Print:

Print only:


Texts @ Contexts series "gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light."

This series is still being published; books are currently available covering:

Genesis
Exodus and Deuteronomy
Leviticus and Numbers
Joshua and Judges
My Psalm, my Context
Five Scrolls (Ruth, Song of Songs, Qoheleth, Lamentations, Esther)
Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah
Matthew
Mark
Luke-Acts
1 and 2 Corinthians
Pauline Letters (Romans, Galatians, Philemon, Romans, Philippians)

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