Her Master's Tools?: Feminist And Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse (Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 9)

HER MASTER’S TOOLS? Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 10
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 12
Caroline Vander Stichele & Todd Penner: MASTERING THE TOOLS OR RETOOLING THE MASTERS? THE LEGACY OF HISTORICAL-CRITICAL DISCOURSE......Page 16
The Master’s Voice?......Page 18
Challenging and/or Changing the Paradigm?......Page 26
Moving Beyond and Moving Back......Page 32
The Tools and the House......Page 41
Hanna Stenström: HISTORICAL-CRITICAL APPROACHES AND THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN: UNFULFILLED PROMISES AND REMAINING POSSIBILITIES......Page 46
Mi and the New Testament Seminar—A Story......Page 48
Reflections on the Story......Page 50
Retelling This Story Today......Page 53
Susanne Scholz: “TANDOORI REINDEER” AND THE LIMITATIONS OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM......Page 62
From Subversion to Status Quo......Page 63
Opposition from the Margins......Page 67
Feminist Compliance with Androcentric Historiography......Page 71
Cultivating Alternative Ways of Reading Biblical Literature......Page 77
Conclusion: Toward a Holistic Hermeneutic of the Bible......Page 83
Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez: BREAKING THE ESTABLISHED SCAFFOLD: IMAGINATION AS A RESOURCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION......Page 86
Confronting Traditional Historiography......Page 89
Borderlands as a Theoretical Paradigm and Discursive Location......Page 98
Building New Modes of Interpretation, Breaking Down Old Ones......Page 103
John W. Marshall: POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY......Page 108
Methodological Issues......Page 109
Representation and Advocacy......Page 111
Scope and Modernity......Page 113
Universality and Meta-narrative......Page 114
Martyr Acts: Slavery and Ethnicity......Page 116
The Apostolic Acts: Portals of Colonization......Page 118
Conclusion: Programmatic Contributions......Page 120
Vernon K. Robbins: THE RHETORICAL FULL-TURN IN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR FEMINIST HERMENEUTICS......Page 124
The Location of Sociorhetorical Interpretation in Transmodernism......Page 126
Oppositional Rhetoric as a Half-Turn......Page 131
Sociorhetorical Interpretation as Translocational and Transdiscursive......Page 133
Sociorhetorical Interpretation as Transcultural Rhetorical Criticism......Page 138
Conclusions......Page 142
Priscilla Geisterfer: FULL TURNS AND HALF TURNS: ENGAGING THE DIALOGUE/DANCE BETWEEN ELISABETH SCHÜSSLER FIORENZA AND VERNON ROBBINS......Page 144
Vernon Robbins’s Sociorhetorical Criticism......Page 146
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s Feminist Biblical Criticism......Page 149
The Contradiction of Oppositional Rhetoric in Feminist Interpretation......Page 152
Historical Site and Political Context of Schüssler Fiorenza’s Use of Oppositional Rhetoric......Page 153
Engaging the Discussion......Page 157
Kristin De Troyer: “AND THEY DID SO”: FOLLOWING ORDERS GIVEN BY OLD JOSHUA......Page 160
Modern Methods?......Page 161
Traditional Text Criticism......Page 162
Renewed Text Criticism......Page 163
Orders Need To Be Followed!......Page 165
Relevance For Feminist And Cultural Studies......Page 170
Judith E. McKinlay: SARAH AND HAGAR: WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEM?......Page 174
First Close Reading......Page 175
Engaging with the Gaps......Page 177
Opening Up A Dialogue......Page 182
Revisiting History through a New Historicist Lens......Page 186
Conclusion......Page 190
Madipoane Masenya (ngwana’ Mphahlele): THEIR HERMENEUTICS WAS STRANGE! OURS IS A NECESSITY! REREADING VASHTI AS AFRICAN-SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN......Page 194
A Journey and Struggle......Page 195
The BOSADI Approach......Page 198
Traditions of a Foreign Master......Page 199
Vashti from a BOSADI Perspective......Page 204
Vashti as Example......Page 206
Reading the Bible Cross-Textually......Page 210
The Historical-Critical Approach to Lamentations......Page 212
The Bereaved Mother in Lamentations and the Mothers of Tiananmen......Page 214
An Inconclusive Postscript......Page 223
Esther Fuchs: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT ISRAEL: THEORY, METHOD, AND THE BOOK OF RUTH......Page 226
Reconstructing Women’s Lives in Ancient Israel......Page 228
Recovering Ruth......Page 238
Conclusion......Page 244
Roland Boer: NO ROAD: ON THE ABSENCE OF FEMINIST CRITICISM OF EZRA-NEHEMIAH......Page 248
On the Limits of Micro-Readings......Page 250
A Motley Crew of Dissenters......Page 260
Halperin’s Demurrer......Page 266
Ann Graham Brock: SCRIBAL BLUNDER OR TEXTUAL PLUNDER? CODEX BEZAE, TEXTUAL- RHETORICAL ANALYSIS, AND THE DIMINISHED ROLE OF WOMEN......Page 268
Textual Variants in Luke......Page 270
Textual Variants in Acts......Page 271
Conclusion......Page 278
Joseph A. Marchal: MILITARY IMAGES IN PHILIPPIANS 1–2: A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF THE RHETORICS OF SCHOLARSHIP, PHILIPPIANS, AND CURRENT CONTEXTS......Page 280
Overview of Military Imagery in Philippians......Page 282
Feminist Assessment: Reconsidering the Scholarship on Military Imagery in Philippians......Page 286
Feminist Analysis: Reconsidering Military Imagery in Philippians 1–2......Page 295
Caroline Vander Stichele & Todd Penner: PAUL AND THE RHETORIC OF GENDER......Page 302
The Crux of (the) Matter......Page 306
Paul’s Ontological Move......Page 309
The Nature of Hair in Greco-Roman Moral Philosophers......Page 315
Paul’s “Hairy” Rhetoric......Page 323
Jorunn Økland: WHY CAN’T THE HEAVENLY MISS JERUSALEM JUST SHUT UP?......Page 326
Gender Theory, Philology, and Linguistic Difference......Page 327
Male and Female Virgins......Page 331
The 144,000 Παρθένοι......Page 334
Miss Jerusalem......Page 340
Conclusion......Page 346
Athalya Brenner: EPILOGUE: BABIES AND BATHWATER ON THE ROAD......Page 348
Babies and Bathwater......Page 349
Coming Clean......Page 350
On the Road......Page 352
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 354
INDEX OF PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 390
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 396
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 404