In this essay, Esther Fuchs analyzes and critiques the resurgence in the past decade of neoliberal feminist recuperations of the Hebrew Bible. This approach is essentialist, ignores the mediation of patriarchal ideology, tends to reauthorize the "fathers" of the field, and is generally dismissive of feminist critique. Fuchs traces the roots of this approach to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible , which was largely grounded in the humanist, liberal ideals of European modernism that were closely allied to the rise of capitalism in the nineteenth century. Neoliberalism defines feminism in terms of equality, independence, rationalism, individualism, competitiveness, and power over others—liberal ideals that are often projected on biblical women in an attempt to recuperate and reappropriate them as feminist models. The quest for women's voices, types, and powerful historical personalities often ignores poststructuralist theories of representation, discourse, and ideology. The essay then politicizes and interrogates a broadly accepted reading procedure that can be seen as dominant in contemporary feminist biblical studies.

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In this article, postcolonial theory is presented as a tool for Biblical interpretation, in an attempt to find colonial intentions (be they political, cultural or economic) that informed and influenced the writer’s context. Although criticism has been levelled at the church and other religious institutions for having, consciously or unconsciously, facilitated colonial conquests and imperial establishment all over the world, postcolonial theory calls them to a constructive reading that enables readers to see the concerns of the universal mission of justice. Postcolonial theory, as a tool for Biblical interpretation, deals with the Bible as a “cultural product” in time and space. However, as part of socio-scientific method, postcolonial theory encounters some crucial translation problems such as ethnocentrism and anachronism. Nevertheless, whatever hermeneutical tool the reader uses, it must yield two important things from Scripture reading: discovering life and discovering faith.

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................................................................................................................................................. v Opsomming ........................................................................................................................................... vi Dedication ............................................................................................................................................ vii Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................ viii Abbreviations and Acronyms ............................................................................................................. ix Geographical Map of Zimbabwe ......................................................................................................... x Chapter 1: Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Focus of the Study ........................................................................................................................ 1 1.2. Motivation ....................................................................................................................................... 2 1.3. Literature Review .......................................................................................................................... 2 1.4. Research Question and Objectives ............................................................................................... 7 1.5. Methodology ................................................................................................................................... 8 1.5.1. Practical Theological Methodology ........................................................................................... 8 1.5.2. Research Methodology ............................................................................................................... 9 1.6. Ethical Considerations ................................................................................................................. 10 1.7. Limitations .................................................................................................................................... 10 1.8. The significance of the study ....................................................................................................... 11 1.9. Definition of key terms ................................................................................................................ 11 1.10. Chapter outline ........................................................................................................................... 15 Chapter 2: The challenges of the girl child in Zimbabwe ............................................................... 17 2.

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