The power of the word
Subtitle: Scripture and the rhetoric of empire
By: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780800638337; 9780800638344
Subjects: Bible -- Influence; Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible -- Feminist criticism
Description: What kind of power does scripture exercise? In The Power of the Word, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, a 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 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280).
Table of contents: title: The rhetoric of empire : introduction; title: Empire studies as a new field in biblical studies; title: A radical democratic ethos; title: A critical political feminist hermeneutics; title: Situating the argument of this book; title: The power of Scripture and the rhetoric of empire; title: Empire as the context of Scripture today; title: Reshaping biblical the*logical studies; title: Empire and ekklēsia; title: A radical democratic imagination : the ekklēsia of wo/men; title: Debating Paul in the ekklēsia of wo/men; title: Toward a critical feminist decolonizing interpretation; title: Postcolonial criticism and feminist criticism; title: A decolonizing interpretation of the book of Revelation; title: Empire and the rhetoric of subordination; title: The ethos of kyriarchy : intersecting discourses of domination; title: A detoxifying/decolonizing reading of 1 Peter; title: The rhetoric of empire and G*d-talk : decolonizing the divine; title: Feminist critique of androcentric G*d language; title: Kyriocentric G*d language : the language of empire; title: Transforming biblical studies; title: The discipline of biblical studies; title: Transforming biblical studies.