1.                     HOW TO RE-READ THE BIBLE
                                       Lot’s Wife
                                    Gen. 19:15-29
   
                           Sunita Noronha

Introduction:
    Women from many parts of the world have been re-reading the Bible with new eyes.  As we seek to understand God's liberating word in the midst of our particular experience, women are finding wisdom, courage and fresh insights to share with each other.
    Biblical interpretation by women has a long history.  The path breaking publication of the Woman's Bible took place in 1895.  More than half a century elapsed before scholarly feminist interpretation of the Bible emerged in the USA in the 1960s as a result of the combination of struggles of women for liberation, equality, freedom and humanization, and the emergence of a cadre of women Biblical scholars.  It was born out of the concrete experiences, realities and possibilities of women's lives. 
    How does the Bible serve as resource for Christians who are also feminists?, committed to equality between women and men, created in the image of God?  What approaches to the Bible are appropriate for us as women who locate ourselves within the Christian community in India?
    The answers to these questions lie in the feminist re-reading of the scriptures.  Some methodological steps are:

1.    Text in its Context:
    A necessary starting point is to recognize that the world and times of the Bible are foreign and different from our own.  The Bible was written by men in the Hebrew and Greek world over 2000 years ago.  So we must take care not to make direct application to our time without first working to understand the text in its own context.

2.    Reclaiming the Text: 
    This is done in the form of reinterpreting texts that have been