Inspired by the tradition of rabbinic sages to provide explanatory comments, expansive additions, illustrative anecdotes, and legendary stories to interpret texts fraught with silence, Gafney deftly deploys what she refers to uniquely as a womanist midrash (combining seriously impressive scholarship, a black womanist reading lens, and the inspiration of midrashic sages) to question and, best of all, fill in blanks to read women back into Scripture as divine agents who resisted, persisted, subverted, disrupted, and reconstituted the biblical (and the modern!) world order. Lots of places exist in Scripture where the names, voices, perspective, and contributions of women have been silenced or erased by male biblical writers themselves and centuries of ensuing (largely male) commentary. "Wherever there is space in Hebrew Scripture, Wil Gafney is hell-bent on filling it.
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