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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, the 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. The 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 *

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, the 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. The 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 today’s communal and socio-political contexts, while exposing the invisibility of “others” in “invited” spaces—whether in biblical text, interpretation, or art. This collective work significantly contributes to biblical scholarship by theorizing space and spatializing biblical interpretation. 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 *

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L. Juliana Claassens is Professor in Old Testament and Head of the Gender Unit at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University. Gerald O. West is Professor Emeritus in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics in the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Sithembiso Zwane is a lecturer in theology and development and Director of the Ujamaa Centre for Biblical and Theological Community Development and Research in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics (SPRC) in the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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