Constructing a Feminist Afropean (Nigerian/British) Hermeneutical Lens for Reconfiguring New Testament Female Characters
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Abstract
Extant feminist, womanist and postcolonial feminist interpretations of female New Testament biblical characters largely omit the experiences of Black women descended from Africa but living in Europe. My thesis therefore constructs a feminist Afropean (or more specifically a feminist Nigerian/British) hermeneutical lens through which to refigure New Testament biblical women and their Eurocentric reception histories. Sabrina Brancato refers to the concept of Afropeanism as “foregrounding the reciprocal embeddedness of the histories of the two neighbouring continents”; Africa and Europe (2008: 2). Drawing on literary and autobiographical approaches, alternative possibilities of interpretation are offered apropos of selected biblical characters: including the Woman who washed Jesus’s feet with her hair (Luke 7:36-50), the Samaritan Woman at the well (John 4: 7-42), the Daughter and her Canaanite Mother (Matthew 15:21-28), the Pythian Slave-Woman (Acts 16:16-34), and Herodias’s Daughter (Mark 6:17- 28; Matthew 14:3-12), in order to challenge the parochial assumptions that have often been made by previous scholarship. Afropean themes (hair, familial marriage expectation and pressure, mother and daughter intergenerational relationships, loss of Nigerian (Yorùbá) epistemology, hypervisibility, and embodied knowledge) drawn from Afropean novels, in which characterisation, individual lived experiences and stories are central concerns, form the framework in which to elucidate yet unconsidered possibilities within the biblical text. This project falls within the move to not only ‘decolonise’ thought and methodologies (Bhambra et al., 2020: 2), but to also put centre stage hybrid identity categorisations hitherto unrepresented within biblical studies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".