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Her master's tools? : feminist and postcolonial engagements of historical-critical discourse / edited by Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner. - Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xiii, 390 pages) - Global perspectives on biblical scholarship ; no. 9 . - Global perspectives on biblical scholarship ; no. 9. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-373) and indexes.

Mastering the tools or retooling the masters? The legacy of historical-critical discourse / Historical-critical approaches and the emancipation of women: unfulfilled promises and remaining possibilities / "Tandoori reindeer" and the limitations of historical criticism / Breaking the established scaffold: imagination as a resource in the development of Biblical interpretation / Postcolonialism and the practice of history / Rhetorical full-turn in Biblical interpretation and its relevance for feminist hermeneutics / Full turns and half turns: engaging the dialogue/dance between Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Vernon Robbins / "And they did so": Following orders given by Old Joshua / Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner -- Hanna Stenström -- Susanne Scholz -- Hjamil A. Martiʹnez-Vaʹzquez -- John W. Marshall -- Vernon K. Robbins -- Priscilla Geisterfer -- Kristin De Troyer. Sarah and Hagar: what have I to do with them? / Their hermeneutics was strange! Ours is a necessity! Rereading Vashti as African-South African women / Mothers bewailing: reading Lamentations / History of women in ancient Israel: theory, method, and the book of Ruth / No road: on the absence of feminist criticism of Ezra-Nehemiah / Scribal blunder or textual plunder? Codex Bezae, textual-rhetorical analysis, and the diminished role of women / Military images in Philippians 1-2: a feminist analysis of the rhetorics of scholarship, Philippians, and current contexts / Paul and the rhetoric of gender / Why can't the heavenly Miss Jerusalem just shut up? / Epilogue: babies and bathwater on the road / Judith E. McKinlay -- Madipoane Masenya (ngwanaʹ Mphahlele) -- Archie Chi Chung Lee -- Esther Fuchs -- Roland Boer -- Anne Graham Brock -- Joseph A. Marchal -- Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner -- Jorunn Økland -- Athalya Brenner.


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ISBN: 1589831195 9781589831193 1429410957 9781429410953 9781589833029 1589833023

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Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible--Feminist criticism.
Bible--Hermeneutics.
Bible--Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible--Critique féministe.
Bible--Herméneutique.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
RELIGION--Biblical Reference--Quotations.
Feminist criticism
Hermeneutics
Feministische theologie.
Postkolonialisme.
Bijbelkritiek.
Hermeneutiek.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: BS511.3 / .H47 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 220.6/082