| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (xxii, 325 pages)) |
| 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 R{uml}ais{uml}anen'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 genáese (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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Study and teaching
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Bible. Old Testament -- Feminist criticism
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
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Feminist criticism
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Education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781506420486 |
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1506420486 |
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