The Five Scrolls: Texts@Contexts

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Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Ruth
	Ruling from their Graves? Reading Naomi within the African Religio-Cultural Context
	The Boaz Solution: Reading Ruth in Light of Australian Asylum Seeker Discourse
	Finding Korean Goose Mothers a Home: A Contextual Re-reading of Ruth
	Boaz as ‘Sugar Daddy’: Re-reading Ruth in the Context of HIV in Southern Africa
	Racial Melancholia and the Book of Ruth
	Poor and Landless Women: An African Reading of Leviticus 25 and Ruth 4 with Latino/a Critical Tools
Part II: Song of Songs
	A Womanist Reading of the Song of Songs in the Age of AIDS
	Where Love and Death Meet: Reading the Old Testament in a Context of Gender Violence
Part III: Qoheleth
	‘What Gain Have the Workers from their Toil?’: (Con)texting Ecclesiastes 3.9-13 in Pasifika
	Hebel and Kong: A Cross-Textual Reading between Qoheleth and the Heart Sutra
	Dealing with Death: Reading Qoheleth in Different Contexts
Part IV: Lamentations
	Reading Daughter Zion and Lady Meng: Tears, Protest and Female Voices
	Lamentations as Musical Performance, its Origins and Life Occasions: Some Reflections
Part V: Esther
	Women’s Banquets and Gatherings in Text and Context: The Queens Banquets in Esther and Contemporary Women-Only Israeli/Jewish Ceremonies
	Esther, Pious and Brave: Reading Children’s Bibles as Commentary on Twentieth-Century Afrikaner Culture
Index of References
Index of Authors