Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation

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Beacon Press, Jul 31, 1995 - Religion - 256 pages
This feminist classic explores the ways in which women can read the Christian Bible with full understanding of both its oppressive and its liberating functions. In the substantial new Afterword to this edition, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza situates Bread Not Stone in relation to mainstream Biblical scholarship, Catholic and Protestant theologies, liberation theologies, and nineteenth-century feminist writings on the Bible.
 

Contents

WomenChurch The Hermeneutical Center of Feminist Biblical Interpretation
1
For the Sake of Our Salvation Biblical Interpretation and the Community of Faith
23
The Function of Scripture in the Liberation Struggle A Critical Feminist Hermeneutics and Liberation Theology
43
Discipleship and Patriarchy Toward a Feminist Evaluative Hermeneutics
65
Remembering the Past in Creating the Future HistoricalCritical Scholarship and FeministCritical Interpretation
93
Toward a CriticalTheological SelfUnderstanding of Biblical Scholarship
117
A Critical Theory and Practice of Feminist Interpretation for Liberation Revisited
151
Notes
181
Index
221
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, past president of the Society of Biblical Literature, is Krister Stendahl Professor of Scripture and Interpretation at Harvard Divinity School, and a founding coeditor of Feminist Studies in Religion. She is the author of many books, including Bread Not Stone and But She Said. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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