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The imaginative reworking of biblical narrative and tropes has been a significant strategy of feminist biblical interpretation. This article considers the work of the British second-wave feminist writers Sara Maitland, Michèle Roberts and Michelene Wandor in exploring the relational encounters of feminist biblical revisioning. This article engages with the relationship between biblical texts and revisionist writers through the paradigms of wrestling and visitation encounter.
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See, for example, Trible 1982, Russell 1985, Schüssler Fiorenza 1993, Brenner and Fonatine 1997, Mbuwayesango and Scholz 2009.
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