A Tale of Two Eunuchs: Isaiah 56:1–8 and Acts 8:26–40

Melcher, Sarah J.

doi:10.1057/9781137001207_8

Disability Studies and Biblical Literature 2011

DOI: 10.1057/9781137001207_8

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A Tale of Two Eunuchs: Isaiah 56:1–8 and Acts 8:26–40

Sarah J. Melcher¹

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“… 2. Spencer (1992), Melcher (2011), and others have undertaken what one could call intersectional-intertextual analyses of the Scripture-reading Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8, the passage that most obviously invites this integrative approach. Kartzow (2016) offers an intersectional reading of 1 Timothy and selected scriptural women—including Hagar, who occurs in both Testaments—though Kartzow does not foreground intertextual analysis. …”

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Age, Maternity, and Allusion: Elizabeth and Other Mothers

Newberry

2024

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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This article explores how intertextual analysis of New Testament (NT) narratives’ engagement with the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible (OT/HB) might be fruitfully integrated with intersectional analysis of characters’ embodied lives in communities. Taking Elizabeth’s characterization in Luke 1 as a test case, I demonstrate that intersectional analysis not only deepens the insights arising from intertextual analysis but also sheds light on Luke 1’s relevance to ongoing issues of conflict and marginalization today. Intersectional-intertextual analysis thus proves particularly useful for those exegetes interested in practical theological—including specifically justice-oriented—interpretation. At the same time, as will be illustrated in relation to Luke 1’s early reception history, intertextual analysis can lessen the danger that contemporary contexts will distortively overdetermine intersectional analysis, mitigating a hermeneutical objection sometimes raised against interpretations that attend to justice concerns and other expressions of practical theology.

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Age, Maternity, and Allusion: Elizabeth and Other Mothers

Newberry

2024

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Teaching “Disease and Disability in the Bible”: A Pedagogical Retrospect and Resource

Langford

2017

Journal of Disability & Religion

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A Tale of Two Eunuchs: Isaiah 56:1–8 and Acts 8:26–40

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Age, Maternity, and Allusion: Elizabeth and Other Mothers

Age, Maternity, and Allusion: Elizabeth and Other Mothers

Teaching “Disease and Disability in the Bible”: A Pedagogical Retrospect and Resource

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