The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire

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Fortress Press, 2007 - Počet stran: 280
What kind of power does scripture exercise? In The Power of the Word Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, the premier scholar of feminist biblical interpretation and early Christian history, explores this difficult hermeneutical question. Because Christian scriptures were formulated in the context of Roman imperial power, they have functioned-and still do so-in the service of empire, legitimating colonialist expansion, racist exploitation, and heterosexist discrimination. Schussler Fiorenza calls for a critical feminist decolonizing reading, capable of identifying both the destructive powers of empire and the radical democratic visions of justice and well being that are inscribed in the scriptural text. The Power of the Word makes a timely contribution not only to traditional fields such as Pauline and Apocalypse studies, but also to the developing intersection of feminist and postcolonial biblical studies and the study of empire. Book jacket.

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The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
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Elisabeth Sch ssler Fiorenza is the Krister Stendhal ProfessElisabeth Sch ssler Fiorenza is the Krister Stendhal Professor at Harvard Divinity School, a founding editor of the Jouror at Harvard Divinity School, a founding editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, past president of the Snal of Feminist Studies in Religion, past president of the Society of Biblical Literature, and author of many important ociety of Biblical Literature, and author of many important and influential works, among them In Memory of Her (1984), Band influential works, among them In Memory of Her (1984), Bread Not Stone (1985), Jesus: Miriam s Child, Sophia s Prophread Not Stone (1985), Jesus: Miriam s Child, Sophia s Prophet (1995), and The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetet (1995), and The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (2007). She is editor of Searching the Scriptoric of Empire (2007). She is editor of Searching the Scriptures (two volumes, 1993, 1994), a feminist introduction and ures (two volumes, 1993, 1994), a feminist introduction and commentary commentary

Bibliografické údaje

NázevThe Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire
AutorElisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
VydavatelFortress Press, 2007
ISBN0800638344, 9780800638344
DélkaPočet stran: 280
  
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