Abstract:
The main goal of this dissertation is to consider the pedagogical, methodological and
hermeneutical implications of the reading of the Bible, in a popular and feminist perspective.
In the first two chapters are presented some implications involved in this reading. Concerning
the pedagogical implications we came back to some ideas on liberating education of Paulo
Freire‟s work Pedagogy of the oppressed. Concerning the methodological implications we
highlighted in the popular reading of the Bible as a reference for true popular Bible study
process, starting from a liberating and empowering pedagogy. Concerning the hermeneutical
implications, it was proposed a dialogue with the critical feminist liberation hermeneutics,
developed by Elisabeth S. Fiorenza, because of her political and ethical commitment with
women while historical subjects.
In the third chapter are presented a report of the Flor de Manacá group experience, and
the reflection conducted by that group on the text of the Gospel of John 8.1-12. It aimed not
only to show the popular methodology and feminist reading of the Bible, but also the whole
process of the group as a subject of the reading of the Bible in the context of Brazilian
Northeastern culture. This experience and research reveal the importance of the groups and of
the community in a process of a new pedagogy for biblical studies, committed to a reading of
the Bible that is liberating and empowering and, at the same time, sensible to the cultural
context in which it is inserted.
