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Religion 315: Hagar

Resources on Hagar

Hagar—Genesis 16

Junior, Nyasha. Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. (ebook at Houghton)
- Read Introduction, Epilogue, and Chapter 1, 2, 3, or 4

Weems, Renita J. Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women’s Relationships in the Bible. San Diego, CA: LuraMedia, 1988. (print book on reserve at Houghton)
- Read Foreword and “A Mistress, A Maid, and No Mercy (Hagar and Sarah)”

Williams, Delores. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993 (ebook at Houghton)
- Read Introduction and Chapter 1 (Recommended also read Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8)
  - If students would like to use this book for both of Article/Essay Notes 1 & 2, they may read the Introduction and Chapter 1 for Article/Essay Notes 1 and use Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 for Article/Essay Notes 2.

Water, John. “Who was Hagar?” Pages 187-205 in Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Cain Hope Felder. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991. (RLGN 315 textbook & print book on reserve at Houghton)

Darden, Lynne St. Clair. “Some Sisters Are No Longer in the Wilderness: Toward an African American Postcolonial Scripturalization of the Hagar Narrative.” Pages 47-64 in Liew, Tat-siong Benny and Segovia, Fernando F, eds. Reading Biblical Texts Together: Pursuing Minoritized Biblical Criticism. Semeia. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2022. (ebook at Houghton)