Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Theological Context
Title | Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Theological Context PDF eBook |
Author | J'annine Jobling |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2020-09-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000160726 |
This title was first published in 2002: The premise of the text is that there is a continuing need for biblical hermeneutic propsals and frameworks which emerge from the fields of both feminism and Christian theology. Feminism, the author asserts, demands not only the plotting of new routes but the restructuring of entire landscapes. As such this project, since it seeks to develop a feminist theological frame for meaning, impinges on and is impacted by innumerable inter-relating questions. In consequence, the scope of the book is necessarily both broad and interdisiplinary. The author, J'annine Jobling, uses particular texts and has articulated her own positions in response. In this way the embodied practice of thinking-in-relation is mirrored in the texts produced. This has determined the macro-structure of the thesis, which is based on an analysis of two feminist biblical scholars: Elisabeth Schussler Fionenza and Phyllis Trible. From this analysis Jobling identifies two primary principles for interpretation: rememberance and destabilization. This is a strategy which allows both materialist and post-structuralist perspectives to be set into play, each of which has vital contributions to make to feminist enterprises. The "Bible" is understood as matrix, as a set of discourses which are permeable to and intersect with other cultural discourses. The task of feminist interpretation is then to reconstitute the heterogenous biblical matrix in feminist horizons. A fundamental tenet of the book is that hermeneutics inhabits particular metaphysical constructs. Therefore, the argument extends from an interpretation of the Bible to an epistemological framework in which an eschatological hereneutic is recommended, to a metaphysical framework which takes eschatology as its structuring principle. The author argues that it is eschatology which can provide the resources for an ontological model radically disruptive of a metaphysics of presence, and in which it is possible to discern the traces of God. From this outermost limit of the author's hermeneutic investigations, the text returns to the centre: the feminist discursive community and develops a construct that the ekklesia, as a feminist deliberative space set oppositionally to structures, worldviews and idealogies operates on patriarchal logics. The relationship of this "imagined community" is compared to the Christian Church and scripture, ethics and gendered identity within a logic of equity.
Sharing Her Word
Title | Sharing Her Word PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780567086488 |
How can recent advances in biblical studies empower feminist struggles and inspire all Christians to articulate a vision that promotes human dignity, justice, inclusivity and well-being for all? In this book, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza develops her insights into the study of the Bible. She reclaims the work of nineteenth and early twentieth-century feminist biblical interpreters. And she analyses several intriguing biblical passages to show how the Bible can contribute to the spiritual struggle for a more just world. Praise for Sharing Her Word: "A fresh yet seasoned stock taking of feminist Biblical hermeneutics by one of the leading figures in this field." - Old Testament Essays, 2000>
But She Said
Title | But She Said PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1993-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780807012154 |
One of the world's leading feminist theologians demonstrates how reading the Bible can be spiritually and politically empowering for women.
Feminist Interpretation Of The Bible
Title | Feminist Interpretation Of The Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Silvia Schroer |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567227189 |
Since its origins in the women's liberation movement, feminist exegesis has been subject not only to the demand to identify the oppressive functions of biblical texts but also to contribute to the liberation of women. What biblical texts can serve this process of liberation-for which women, under what conditions, and in what manner? What roles do categories such as woman, gender, liberation, freedom, Holy Scripture, church, and theology play? This book originated from a symposium with feminist biblical experts from over twenty countries from five continents. It provides a striking and imaginative depiction of the questions central to feminist exegesis and the hermeneutics of liberation. It also provides a lively example of the kind of global discussion of the Bible and liberation that can take place among women from around the world. Typical of this discussion is the confrontation with questions such as contextuality or the diversity of feminist biblical interpretation (whether of theological or non-theological nature), and clear positions are taken with regard to issues such as the termination of anti-Judaism in feminist biblical interpretation or the dangers of neo-colonial domination in feminist-theological studies.
Bread Not Stone
Title | Bread Not Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 1995-07-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780807012314 |
This feminist classic explores the ways in which women can read the Christian Bible with full understanding of both its oppressive and its liberating functions. In the substantial new Afterword to this edition, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza situates Bread Not Stone in relation to mainstream Biblical scholarship, Catholic and Protestant theologies, liberation theologies, and nineteenth-century feminist writings on the Bible.
Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World
Title | Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Day |
Publisher | Presbyterian Publishing Corp |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0664229107 |
In highly accessible essays, the book covers the history, achievements, and cutting-edge questions in the area of gender and biblical scholarship, including violence and the Bible, female biblical God imagery, and sexuality."--Jacket.
Feminist New Testament Studies
Title | Feminist New Testament Studies PDF eBook |
Author | K. Wicker |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2016-09-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137112042 |
This volume is an engaging and provocative introduction to Feminist Biblical Studies. The authors draw upon their own social, cultural and religious backgrounds and experiences in reading the New Testament as feminists in the context of globalization. They provide intentional interpretations of biblical texts that cast gender, race, class and power relationships as issues inherent in both the content and context of scripture and its interpretation. The essays call into question feminist social engagement that does not extend beyond academic halls, churches and Christians, suggesting directions for future research and teaching in Feminist Biblical Studies.