Changing Horizons: Explorations in Feminist Interpretation

Contents

Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 5 Part I. Charting Critical Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics 1. Interpreting Patriarchal Traditions 25 2. Toward a Christian Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics: Biblical Interpretation and Liberation Theology 41 3. Feminist Interpretation and New Testament Studies 59 4. For the Sake of the Truth Dwelling among Us: Emerging Issues in Feminist Biblical Interpretation 71 5. The Will to Choose or to Reject: Continuing Our Critical Work 89 6. Feminist Hermeneutics 101 7. Theology as Rhetoric, Ethics, and Critique of Ideology 119 8. Disciplinary Matters: A Critical Rhetoric and Ethic of Inquiry 135 9. The Power of Empire and the Rhetoric of Scripture 155 Part II. Practicing Feminist Biblical Interpretation 10. To Set the Record Straight: Biblical Women’s Studies 171 11. Biblical Interpretation and Critical Commitment: The Gospel of John 181 12. The Politics of Otherness: Biblical Interpretation as a Critical Praxis for Liberation 195 13. “Waiting at Table”: A Critical Feminist The*logical Reflection on Diakonia 213 14. The Twelve and the Discipleship of Equals 223 15. Resisting Violence—Engendering Easter 233 16. Liberation, Unity, and Equality in Community: New Testament Case Studies 243 17. Bread/Rice of Wisdom: Interpretation for Liberation 259 vii viii Contents 18. Wisdom’s “Dance”: Practicing a Critical Feminist Interpretation 275 19. Claiming the Word: Charting Global Feminist Biblical Studies 289 ...