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Since its origins in the women's liberation movement, feminist
exegesis has been subject not only to the demand to identify the
oppressive functions of biblical texts but also to contribute to
the liberation of women. What biblical texts can serve this process
of liberation-for which women, under what conditions, and in what
manner? What roles do categories such as woman, gender, liberation,
freedom, Holy Scripture, church, and theology play? This book
originated from a symposium with feminist biblical experts from
over twenty countries from five continents. It provides a striking
and imaginative depiction of the questions central to feminist
exegesis and the hermeneutics of liberation. It also provides a
lively example of the kind of global discussion of the Bible and
liberation that can take place among women from around the world.
Typical of this discussion is the confrontation with questions such
as contextuality or the diversity of feminist biblical
interpretation (whether of theological or non-theological nature),
and clear positions are taken with regard to issues such as the
termination of anti-Judaism in feminist biblical interpretation or
the dangers of neo-colonial domination in feminist-theological
studies.
Wisdom Has Built Her House brings together for the first time the
collected studies of Silvia Schroer on the biblical figure of
Sophia, divine Wisdom. Schroer presents a differentiated image of
Wisdom as female, creator, teacher, prophet, beloved, and more. In
Wisdom Has Built Her House Schroer portrays Wisdom as a cosmic
ordering principle, as universal architect, and as mediator of all
scientific knowledge. Schroer also inquires about the contexts of
these writings: about feminine wisdom and women's roles after the
Babylonian exile, about the goddess traditions behind the idea of
Sophia, and about their significance within a monotheistic symbol
system. Schroer then follows the tradition of God imaged as Wisdom
to the time of the Jesus- movement and the first Christian
communities. Teachers, students, and those looking for a
well-reasoned study of personified Wisdom - and reasons for
reinvisioning our own images of God - will find this in Wisdom Has
Built Her House. Chapters are Wisdom on the Path of Righteousness
(Proverbs 8:20)," "Divine Wisdom and Postexilic Monotheism," "Wise
Women and Counselors in Israel: Models for Personified Hokma,"
"'And When the Next War Began . . .' The Wise Woman of Abel of
Beth-maacah (2 Samuel 20:14-22)," "Abigail: A Wise Woman Works for
Peace," "The One Lord and Male Dominance in the Book of Jesus
Sirach: The Image of Woman and the Image of Wisdom in a Misogynist
Document," "Personified Sophia in the Book of Wisdom," "Jesus
Sophia," and "The Spirit, Wisdom, and the Dove."
Othmar Keel has become well known as the author of masterly studies
on the iconography and texts of the ANE and their relationship to
the text of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, he partners with
Silvia Schroer to assemble ANE texts and art that bears on the idea
of creation. The result is a convenient assemblage of texts and
iconographical data that may be studied in concert, often leading
to being able to see old texts in new ways. As with much of this
Swiss scholar's work, this new volume will prove to be a resource
for all who wish to study the biblical theology of creation against
its wider background.
In the hundred years since The Women's Bible, giant strides have
been made in feminist interpretation of the Bible. Now comes the
first comprehensive overview of the whole field. The authors
systematically recount those efforts to describe the story of women
in both testaments, to uncover tendencies not supportive of women,
and to describe biblical traditions that empower women. The book
unfolds in three parts: Historical, Hermeneutical, and
Methodological Foundations Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of the
History of Israel Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Early
Christianity
Images are like texts influenced by their cultural environment. To
decode their code and at the same time to liberate it from the
guardianship of the text interpretation, the authors of this volume
have made the task. They explore the question of the role of images
in the reconstruction of women's history in antiquity. The answers
range from fundamental interpretations of ancient images from a
gender-oriented perspective to the exploration of more specific
topics such as the portrayal of nudity or the woman as ruler,
mother or priestess. "Images and Gender" is a unique groundbreaking
collection of the latest gender research on the subject Iconography
of Egypt, Palestine and Israel as well as Greek and Roman
antiquity.
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