She Said to Him, He Said to Her: Power Talk in the Bible or Foucault Listens at the Keyhole
Cross-gender dialogues provide the loci for the most intriguing, scandalous, or otherwise compelling conversations in the biblical texts. Their inherent asymmetry permits them to tackle awkward societal issues in a way that draws less attention to the origins of the difficulty because attention is f...
| Published in: | Biblical theology bulletin |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
1998
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 1998, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 45-51 |
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| Summary: | Cross-gender dialogues provide the loci for the most intriguing, scandalous, or otherwise compelling conversations in the biblical texts. Their inherent asymmetry permits them to tackle awkward societal issues in a way that draws less attention to the origins of the difficulty because attention is focussed on the sexual chemistry between the two protagonists. Texts from the First Testament are compared with narratives from the Gospels. The (c)overt roles played in the narratives by gender—and class or race if relevant—are identified and analyzed to see if alterations in power relations are masked or "sweetened" by the manifestations of gender relations that ostensibly provide the situations of dialogue. Are these women characters in any sense autonomous? Or are they no more than useful tools in the narrators' skillful hands? |
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| ISSN: | 1945-7596 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/014610799802800203 |