On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in Biblical Worlds. Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Edited by Jane Schaberg, Alice Bach, and Esther Fuchs. Pp. vi + 254. New York and London: Continuum, 2004. isbn 0 8264 1589 X (hardback) and 0 8264 1582 2 (paper). 29.95
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza is one of the founders of feminist biblical interpretation. The founding of the ‘Women in the Biblical World’ section of the Society of Biblical Literature, together with her many publications, has shaped a generation of feminist biblical scholars. This collection of ess...
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 264-266 |
| Review of: | On the cutting edge. The study of women in biblical worlds. Essays in honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (New York : Continuum, 2004) (Gooder, Paula)
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| Summary: | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza is one of the founders of feminist biblical interpretation. The founding of the ‘Women in the Biblical World’ section of the Society of Biblical Literature, together with her many publications, has shaped a generation of feminist biblical scholars. This collection of essays gives a flavour of the way in which she has inspired many others writing in this field., Some of the essays explore Schüssler Fiorenza's influence directly. So Fuchs (pp. 1–20) notes the ways in which Schüssler Fiorenza's major theories (such as feminist biblical historiography, the hermeneutics of suspicion, and critique of the ‘malestream’) resonate with her own work. Elizabeth A. Castelli (pp. 36–52) explores the idea of the Ekkle-sia of women in feminist utopian thought, and Joseph (pp. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj069 |