Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editors: Cheryl Bridges Johns and Lisa P. Stephenson -- Copyright page / Editors: Cheryl Bridges Johns and Lisa P. Stephenson -- Notes on the Contributors / Editors: Cheryl Bridges Johns and Lisa P. Stephenson -- Introduction / Authors: Cheryl Bridges Johns and Lisa P. Stephenson -- Chapter 1 Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming -- The Spirit, the Bible, and Gender / Author: Cheryl Bridges Johns -- Chapter 2 Daughter of Courage / Author: Abigail Greves Sham -- Chapter 3 A Prophetic Call to Repentance -- David, Bathsheba, and a Royal Abuse of Power / Author: Jacqueline N. Grey -- Chapter 4 Taking Hermeneutics to Heart -- Proposing an Orthopathic Reading for Texts of Terror via the Rape of Tamar Narrative / Author: Casey Cole -- Chapter 5 Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming -- Job and the Deconstruction of Benevolent Patriarchy / Author: Cheryl Bridges Johns -- Chapter 6 'Let Me Hear Your Voice' -- Hearing the 'Song of Songs' through Pentecostal Hermeneutics / Author: Caroline R. Redick -- Chapter 7 Redeemed from Fire by Fire -- The Burning Spirit and the Daughters of Zion in Isaiah 4.4 / Author: Jacqueline N. Grey -- Chapter 8 'I Believe' -- Martha's Confession in the Gospel of John / Author: Lisa P. Stephenson -- Chapter 9 Was the Spirit Poured out on Women to Remain Silent in the Church? Reading 1 Corinthians 14.34-35 and 1 Timothy 2.11-15 in the Light of Pentecost / Author: Melissa Archer -- Chapter 10 'With Blessings They Cover the Bitterness' -- Persisting and Worshipping through Brokenness - Pentecostal Women and the Pentecostal Tradition(s) / Author: Kimberly Ervin Alexander -- Back Matter -- Index / Editors: Cheryl Bridges Johns and Lisa P. Stephenson.

Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming: The Spirit, The Bible, and Gender is a collection of scholarly essays by Pentecostal women. It explores troubling biblical texts, as well as those of contemporary church life, in regards to the portrayal of women. The authors seek to identify the presence and work of the Spirit that is often hidden within the contours of these texts. A Pentecostal feminist hermeneutic desires to move beyond suspicion into the deeper terrain of the Spirit's mission of grieving, brooding, and transforming a broken world. The essays point to the purposes of God toward justice and the healing of creation.

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