Dance in Scripture: How Biblical Dancers Can Revolutionize Worship Today

by Angela M. Yarber

Dance in How Biblical Dancers Can Revolutionize Worship Today examines the dances of seven biblical Miriam, Jephthah's daughter, David, the Shulamite, Judith, Salome, and Jesus. Each figure offers a virtue that has the potential to revolutionize worship today. Yarber combines feminist and queer hermeneutics with dance history to highlight the nuances of the texts that often go unnoticed in biblical scholarship, while also celebrating the myriad ways the body can be affirmed in worship in creative, empowering, and subversive ways. Liberation, lamentation, abandon, passion, subversion, innocence, and community each contribute to the exciting ways embodied worship can be revolutionized. This is a book for those interested in biblical scholarship, dance, the arts, feminist and queer theory, or revolutionizing worship.

126 pages, Paperback

First published October 16, 2013

Reviews

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this with a student for an independent study. She does a wonderful job not only exploring the scriptural text but also translating it to what it could mean today.