Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Theological Context Restless Readings - Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Theology & Biblical Studies

This book presents a new model for biblical interpretation, exploring the intersecting perspectives of feminism, postmodern philosophies and Christian theology. Feminist biblical interpretation, like other areas of feminist scholarship, has increasingly moved beyond aggregating information about women in patriarchy and developed complex and nuanced hermeneutic theories. - - Answering a need to bring together feminist approaches to the bible with a theological framework for interpretation, the book is structured in two parts. Part one considers two major paradigms of biblical interpretation, the historical and the literary, through analysis of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Phyllis Trible. Part Two draws on these various overlapping approaches to develop an innovative model of biblical interpretation which is rooted not only in feminism and postmodern worldviews, but also in Christian theology. Students and scholars of feminism, postmodernism, interpretation theory and Christian theology will find this book offers a particularly valuable contribution to the debate. - -