The Bible as political artifact : on the feminist study of the Hebrew Bible / Susanne Schloz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sholz, Susanne, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Feminist theology.

Women in the Bible.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, ©2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Biblical studies and the teaching of biblical studies are clearly changing, though it is less clear what the changes mean and how we should evaluate them. In this book, Susanne Scholz engages some of the issues as she has encountered them in the field over the last twenty years. She casts a feminist, class-critical eye on the politics of pedagogy, in higher education and in wider society alike, decrypting important developments in the architecture of educational power. She also examines how the increasingly intercultural, interreligious, and diasporic dynamics in society inform the hermeneutical and methodological possibilities for biblical exegesis, whether the topic is rape in ancient Near Eastern legislation or Eve and Adam in the American Christian right's approaches. In bold strokes, Scholz lays out a program for biblical scholarship and pedagogy that connects to current events and ideas, such as the Title IX debate, inclusive language, or film. Taken as a whole, the fourteen chapters demonstrate that the foregrounding of gender, placed into its intersectional contexts, offers intriguing and valuable alternative ways of seeing the world and the Bible's place in it.

Contents:

Introduction : feminist readings of the Bible as a political artifact

part I. The pedagogical politics in academia and society

1. Redesigning the biblical studies curriculum : toward a "radical-democratic" teaching model

2. Occupy academic Bible teaching : the architecture of educational power and the biblical studies curriculum

3. Standing at the crossroads with Räisänen's program : toward a future of biblical studies in postbiblical societies

part ii. The politics of method

4. "Tandoori reindeer" exegesis : on the limitations of historical criticism and two alternatives

5. "Back then it was legal" : the epistemological imbalance in readings of biblical and ancient Near Eastern rape legislation

6. Lederhosen hermeneutics : toward a feminist sociology of German white male Old Testament interpretations

7. The forbidden fruit for the new Eve : the Christian right's adaptation to the (post)modern world

8. Tell me how you read this story and I will tell you who you are : post-postmodernity, radicant exegesis, and a feminist sociology of biblical hermeneutics

part III. The politics of hermeneutical and cultural alternatives

9. Discovering a largely unknown past for a vibrant present : feminist Hebrew Bible studies in North America

10. Was it really rape in Genesis 34? Biblical scholarship as a reflection of cultural assumptions

11. "Belonging to all humanity" : the Dinah story (Genesis 34) in the film La genèse (1999) by Cheick Oumar Sissoko

12. How to read biblical rape texts with contemporary title IX debates in mind

13. Biblical studies is feminist biblical studies, and vice versa : about the conceptualization of feminist biblical studies as the core of biblical studies

14. Barbaric bibles : the scandal of inclusive translations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781506420486

1506420486

Publisher Number:

40027626783

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