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The power of the word :

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-

The power of the word : Scripture and the rhetoric of empire - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007. - viii, 280 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280).

The rhetoric of empire : introduction -- Empire studies as a new field in biblical studies -- A radical democratic ethos -- A critical political feminist hermeneutics -- Situating the argument of this book -- The power of Scripture and the rhetoric of empire -- Empire as the context of Scripture today -- Reshaping biblical the*logical studies -- Empire and ekklēsia -- A radical democratic imagination : the ekklēsia of wo/men -- Debating Paul in the ekklēsia of wo/men -- Toward a critical feminist decolonizing interpretation -- Postcolonial criticism and feminist criticism -- A decolonizing interpretation of the book of Revelation -- Empire and the rhetoric of subordination -- The ethos of kyriarchy : intersecting discourses of domination -- A detoxifying/decolonizing reading of 1 Peter -- The rhetoric of empire and G*d-talk : decolonizing the divine -- Feminist critique of androcentric G*d language -- Kyriocentric G*d language : the language of empire -- Transforming biblical studies -- The discipline of biblical studies -- Transforming biblical studies.

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Bible--Influence.
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible--Feminist criticism.

BS538.7 / .S38 2007

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