Feminist Readings, Gospel Narrative and Critical Theory
Feminist readings of the gospels are added to Werner Kelber's hermeneutical slice of modem gospel reading. Kelber describes five methods: (1) reading to extract historical or theological truths, meaning-as-reference; (2) formalist literary readings, meaning-as-narrative; (3) reader-response rea...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
1992
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 1992, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 167-173 |
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| Summary: | Feminist readings of the gospels are added to Werner Kelber's hermeneutical slice of modem gospel reading. Kelber describes five methods: (1) reading to extract historical or theological truths, meaning-as-reference; (2) formalist literary readings, meaning-as-narrative; (3) reader-response readings, meaning-as-consciousness; (4) structuralist readings, meaning-as-system; and (5) deconstructionist readings, meaning-as-deferment. Feminist gospel readings exist for the first four methods. Kelber viewed meaning-as-reference, meaning-as-narrative, and meaning-as-system as attempts to determine stable meaning or significance, while the others were more open. The addition of feminist criticism, beginning from a non-androcentric standpoint, shows that the methods giving apparently stable results, are also radically open. Feminist criticism serves, as does deconstruction, to relativize meaning. It also, however, focuses interest on questions of power: whose interests does a particular text or interpretation serve? |
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| ISSN: | 1945-7596 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/014610799202200404 |