Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation seeks to interrupt the
rhetorics and politics of meaning which in the past decade have
compelled the proliferation of popular and scholarly books and
articles about the historical Jesus, and which have turned Jesus
into a commodity of neo-capitalist western culture.
In this spirited book, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza continues
her argument begun in Jesus: Miram's Child, Sophia's Prophet
(Continuum, 1995), now with a focus on the politics of Jesus
scholarship. It is no accident, she maintains, that scholars in the
U.S. and Europe have rediscovered the historical Jesus at a time
when feminist scholarship, critical theory, interreligious
dialogue, postcolonial criticism, and liberation theologies have
pointed to the interconnections between knowledge and power at work
in positivistic scientific circles. It is also no accident that
such an explosion of Jesus books has taken place at a time when the
media have discovered the "angry white male syndrome" that fuels
neo-fascist movements in Europe and the U.S.
The answer to this commodification of "Jesus" is not a rejection
of critical scholarship and Jesus research but a call for their
investigation in terms of ideology critique and ethics. By claiming
to produce knowledge about the "real" Jesus, Schussler Fiorenza
points out, malestream as well as feminist scholars deny the
rhetoricity of their research and refuse to stand accountable for
their reconstructive cultural models and theological interests.
Hence, she calls for an ethics of interpretation that can explore
such a scholarly politics of meaning, rather than continue its
ideological discourses on "Jesus and Women" that are fraught with
bothanti-Judaism and anti-feminism.
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