Introduction to the panel by Carol J. Dempsey

The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press, 2017) is a creative, provocative, and meticulously researched volume that pushes the boundaries of traditional biblical research and offers a compelling challenge to Bible scholars, teachers, and students for the twenty-first century. This work has piqued the interest of the scholarly community which prompted the SBL Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible and Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible sections to sponsor a lively panel review of the book. Carolyn Sharp, Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School, presided over the presentations offered by Rebecca Todd Peters, Santiago Slabodsky, and Carol J. Dempsey. Susanne Scholz offered a lively response. The following papers capture the dynamism of collegial thought and interaction.