the concept of intersectionality is designed to help members of a community see their blind spots. If some communities, specifically evangelical communities that espouse inerrancy and infallibility, do not engage ways of interrogating their own blind spots, how can they imagine full and complete readings of the biblical text? In my Womanist New Testament mind, watching how some interpretative communities (namely, White male biblical scholars) read women in the text without recognizing women’s intersectionality is highly problematic. Epistemic privilege and power become important details to
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