edited by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
SBL Press, 2014
Cloth: 978-1-58983-922-9 | Paper: 978-1-58983-583-2 | eISBN: 978-1-58983-921-2
Library of Congress Classification BS521.4.F445 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 220.6082

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Chart the development of feminist approaches and theories of interpretation during the period when women first joined the ranks of biblical scholars


This collection of essays on feminist biblical studies in the twentieth century seeks to explore four areas of inquiry demanding further investigation. In the first section, articles chart the beginnings and developments of feminist biblical studies as a conversation among feminists around the world. The second section introduces, reviews, and discusses the hermeneutic religious spaces created by feminist biblical studies. The third segment discusses academic methods of reading and interpretation that dismantle androcentric language and kyriarchal authority. The fourth section returns to the first with work that transgresses academic boundaries in order to exemplify the transforming, inspiring, and institutionalizing feminist work that has been and is being done to change religious mindsets of domination and to enable wo/men to engage in critical readings of the Bible.


Features:


  • Essays examine the rupture or break in the malestream reception history of the Bible

  • Exploration of the term feminism in different social-cultural and theoretical-religious locations

  • Authors from around the world present research and future directions for research challenging the next generation of feminist interpreters


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