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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-

Schaberg, Jane.

Bach, Alice.

Fuchs, Esther, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Feminist criticism.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 254 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2004.

Contents:

1. Points of Resonance / Esther Fuchs 1

2. Women's Altars: Lived Religion from Now to Then / Alice Bach 21

3. The Ekklesia of Women and/as Utopian Space: Locating the Work of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza in Feminist Utopian Thought / Elizabeth A. Castelli 36

4. Trailblazers: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and George M. Soares-Prabhu / Pushpa Joseph 53

5. Some Reflections on Violence against Women and the Image of the Hebrew God: The Prophetic Books Revisited / Athalya Brenner 69

6. Paul and Pharisee Women / Tal Ilan 82

7. The Women "Priests" of Philo's De Vita Contemplativa: Reconstructing the Therapeutae / Joan E. Taylor 102

8. The Happy Holy Family in the Jesus Film Genre / Adele Reinhartz 123

9. Wisdom's Deviant Ways / Tina Pippin 143

10. Boundary Transgression and the Extreme Point in Acts 10:1-11:18 / Ute E. Eisen 154

11. Slavery and Gender / Sheila Briggs 171

12. Magdalene christianity / Jane Schaberg 193

13. Rising Voices: The Resurrection Witness of New Testament Non-Writers / Antoinette Clark Wire 221

14. Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament / Alicia Ostriker 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0826415784

082641589X

0826415822

OCLC:

52271754