Abstract

CALDEIRA, Cleusa  and  ARTUSO, Vicente. African priestesses in the biblical world. Decolonial reading of Exodus 4: 24-26. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2020, vol.28, n.3, e61311.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2020v28n361311.

From the spiritual experience of the Black woman in diaspora, a frontier thought emerges as a biblical-theological response to the historical experience of racism. It is a hermeneutic exercise that assumes the ethical and epistemological imperative of the decolonization of theology and the Bible, since both served as a “red-hot iron” to subdue and dehumanize peoples of African origin. From an interpretative exercise based on the subaltern, the spiritual protagonism of the Black woman in the biblical world is revealed in order to reveal the African matrices of the Judeo-Christian faith. As such, it aims to contribute to the deconstruction of the Eurocentric imaginary that continues to legitimize the domination and annihilation of the other and, thus, cooperate in the reconstruction of a depatriarchalized and anti-racist imaginary.

Keywords : Decolonization; Bible; Black woman; Priestess; African matrix.

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