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The power of the word : Scripture and the rhetoric of empire

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007.Description: viii, 280 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780800638337 (alk. paper)
  • 0800638344 (alk. paper)
  • 9780800638344 (alk. paper)
  • 0800638336 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.601 22
LOC classification:
  • BS538.7 .S38 2007
Other classification:
  • 11.33
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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