This paper explores how narrative texts in the Christian Bible, and especially the Hebrew Bible, can inform contemporary ethical discourse. To this end, the paper proposes a framework of re-reading and re-telling as an approach to ethical engagement with biblical narratives. The framework is developed through intersectional feminist engagement with the Hagar narrative (Gen 16 and Gen 21)—a story that is rarely referred to in ethical argumentation. While some scholars read it as a ‘text of terror’, others interpret it as a story of resistance and of God’s attention and promise. Through the practice of re-reading and re-telling, the story of Hagar becomes a test case for how biblical narratives can function as a context of remembrance, discovery, justification, and testing of moral orientation in contemporary ethical discourse.
This study explores the ethics of dialogue in Paul Ricœur's philosophy within the framework
of hermeneutic thought and narrative identity. It argues that dialogue is not merely a communicative
act or a linguistic exchange but an ethical and existential process through which the self is
constituted, interpreted, and tra...
This article uses the hermeneutics of suspicion to critically reassess Genesis 19:8, in which Lot offers his daughters to the mob to protect his guests, an act traditionally interpreted as fulfilling ancient Near Eastern norms of hospitality. By questioning the patriarchal assumptions embedded in the text and its conve...
This paper examines the ethical complexities surrounding the representation and memorialisation of Girmitiyas, Indian indentured labour employed in a system that operated in Fiji from 1879 to 1916. It examines how the history of these labourers continues to generate ethical dilemmas for contemporary Fijian society, i...
Mumtaz Alam, B. Naidu· Diaspora Studies· 0 citations
This paper examines the aesthetic and formal strategies Kate Millett, and Madison Clell, Susannah Cahalan, authors of mad narratives including The Looney Bin Trip (1990), Cuckoo (2002), Brain on Fire (2012) respectively, employ to challenge the authority of dominant psychiatric discourses. It argues that in response to...
Apoorva, A. Aneja· International Journal For Mu...· 0 citations
This poem explores the epistemic wound that arises when social research abandons its ethical and affective dimensions. Using poetic inquiry, it critiques the cult of objectivity within conventional qualitative methods. “Tears” serve as a metaphor for empathy and moral awareness—elements often erased from academic writi...
Eka Yusup· Qualitative Inquiry· 0 citations
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