The public relevance of biblical text, in history and for today.
Figures
vii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: For a Biblical (Wo/man) Scholar to Speak in the Ekklesia
1
(200)
Feminist Struggles against Silencing
2
(6)
The Politics of Biblical Studies
8
(9)
PART ONE. THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS
The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Decentering Biblical Scholarship
17
(14)
Social Location and Biblical Criticism
19
(3)
The Rhetoric of Biblical Scholarship
22
(4)
The Ethos of Biblical Scholarship: Critical Rhetoric and Ethics
26
(5)
Changing the Paradigms: The Ethos of Biblical Studies
31
(26)
The Intellectual-Cultural Contexts of Biblical Studies
34
(4)
Competing Paradigms in Biblical Studies
38
(8)
Emancipation and Interpretation
46
(11)
Shifting the Focus: The Politics of Biblical Studies
57
(26)
Critical Turns and Turnings in the Ethos of Biblical Scholarship
58
(9)
A (Feminist) Ethic of Inquiry
67
(12)
Conclusion
79
(4)
Challenging the Rhetorical Half-Turn: Feminist and Rhetorical Biblical Criticism
83
(22)
A Rhetoric of Inquiry
85
(5)
A Feminist Rhetoric
90
(6)
The Feminine Coding of Rhetoric and Religion
96
(3)
Critical Engagement
99
(6)
PART TWO. RHETORICAL PRACTICES
Rhetorical Situation and Historical Reconstruction in 1 Corinthians
105
(24)
Contemporary Interpretations
110
(1)
The Rhetorical Arrangement of 1 Corinthians
111
(4)
Rhetorical Situation and Genre
115
(5)
Historical Reconstruction and Theological Assessment
120
(3)
A Critical Rhetorical Model of Analysis
123
(6)
The Rhetoricity of Historical Knowledge: Pauline Discourse and Its Contextualizations
129
(20)
Scientific Objectivist Frameworks
132
(6)
Kyriocentric Rhetoricity and Historical Reality
138
(4)
``Religious Propaganda'' in a ``Doubled'' Process of Interpretation
142
(7)
Ideology, Power, and Interpretation: Galatians 3:28
149
(26)
Ideology, Power and Interpretation
149
(10)
Galatians 3:28 as a Focal Point of Feminist Debate
159
(16)
Pauline Theology and the Politics of Meaning
175
(26)
Biblical Theology as a Theological Rhetoric of Inquiry
175
(4)
Biblical Theology as a Politics of Meaning
179
(1)
The Hegemonic Politics of Meaning
180
(8)
Biblical Theology as the Rhetoric of Ekklesia
188
(5)
In Place of a Conclusion
193
(2)
Appendices
1. The Ethics of Interpretation: Thirteen Theses
195
(4)
2. The Rhetorics of Interpretation: Analytic Compass
199
(2)
Selected Bibliography
201
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