Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century: Scholarship and Movement

by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589839212
Publisher:	SBL Press
Publication date:	06/26/2014
Series:	The Bible and women , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	788 KB

About the Author

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza is Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which is Changing Horizons: Explorations in Feminist Interpretation (Fortress, 2013).

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Between Movement and Academy: Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century Part 1: Charting Feminist Biblical Studies around the Globe Movement and Emerging Scholarship: Feminist Biblical Scholarship in the 1970s in the United States Feminist Biblical Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean “Stirring Up Vital Energies”: Feminist Biblical Studies in North America (1980s–2000s) Feminist Biblical Studies in Africa Intercultural Mapping of Feminist Biblical Studies: Southern Europe Toward Mapping Feminist Biblical Interpretations in Asia Part 2: Creating Feminist Hermeneutical Spaces in Religion From Androcentric to Christian Feminist Exegesis: Genesis 1–3 Jewish Feminist Biblical Studies A Christian Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible Rereading the Qur’ān from a Gender Justice Perspective Struggling with Mindsets of Domination Part 3: Reading Otherwise: Methods of Interpretation Texts and Readers, Rhetorics and Ethics Feminist Biblical Historiography Different Feminist Methods and Approaches: Biblical Women’s Studies Queer Studies and Critical Masculinity Studies in Feminist Biblical Studies Postcolonial Feminist Biblical Criticism: An Exploration Canons Unbound Part 4: Working for Change and Transformation Where Do You Come From? Where Are You Going? Feminist Interreligious Bibliodrama in a German Context Wo/men in Liturgy and Art on Wisdom’s Paths A Long History of Sowing, from Which Miracles Occasionally Grow: Bible Translations in Language That Is Just The Institutionalization of Feminist Biblical Bibliography Contributors