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Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schuessler was born on April 17, 1938 in Tschanad, Romania. Parents German citizens. Daughter of Peter and Magdalena Schuessler.
(Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's pioneering and widely accl...)
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's pioneering and widely acclaimed volume, now reissued with a new Preface and Epilogue, has served to reorient interpretations of this controversial book. Rather than finding an individual Christian vision of a fiery endtime, Schussler Fiorenza writes of Christian communities living in the shadow of imperial power, fearing denunciation by their neighbors, yet envisioning the eventual effect of Jesus Christ's resurrection and enthronement on the whole social order. In Schüssler Fiorenza's theological-historical analyses, the Book of Revelation is a literary product of early Christian prophecy, and her interpretation leads to distinctive notions of the book's composition, social intent, relation to the Gospel of John, and visionary rhetoric of apocalypse and justice.
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Now in paperback, Volume 2 of this collection of writing by women is "a major scholarly work" ("Daughters of Sarah"). "In Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, feminist biblical scholars now have a dynamic and erudite leader. Highly recommended".--"Library Journal".
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One of the world's leading feminist theologians demonstrates how reading the Bible can be spiritually and politically empowering for women.
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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.
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza-who "stands among the most articulate and respected theologians who have challenged the silence and marginality . . . of Christian women" (The New York Times Book Review)-explores postmodernist biblical studies through feminist interpretation in Sharing Her Word. She reclaims the work of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminist biblical interpreters, reassessing their influence on current thought. Through analyses of biblical passages, she shows us how reimagining the Bible can contribute to the spiritual struggle for a more just world. Spirited and accessible, Sharing Her Word is essential reading for all who want to understand how the Bible shapes our lives.
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza-who "stands among the most articulate and respected theologians who have challenged the silence and marginality . . . of Christian women" (The New York Times Book Review)-explores postmodernist biblical studies through feminist interpretation in Sharing Her Word. She reclaims the work of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminist biblical interpreters, reassessing their influence on current thought. Through analyses of biblical passages, she shows us how reimagining the Bible can contribute to the spiritual struggle for a more just world. Spirited and accessible, Sharing Her Word is essential reading for all who want to understand how the Bible shapes our lives.
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This book has 3 major sections: 1) introduction that centers on social location and rhetorical analysis; 2) commentary; and 3) a theo-ethical rhetorical reading of the visionary world of the book of Revelation under the headings of empire, tribulation, resistance, and competing voices.
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In this major study, leading feminist biblical critic Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza focuses on Paul and his interpreters. She questions the apolitical ethos of biblical scholarship and argues for an alternative rooted in a critical understanding of language as a form of power. Modern biblical criticism, she reasons, derives much of its methodology and inspiration from an outdated notion of modern science. It professes value-neutrality and detachment from the world of politics and history. Yet, Schussler Fiorenza maintains, this posture belies an objectivity that fails to engage the sociopolitical context of both the text and today's reader. It also does not recognize the rhetorical character of biblical texts and readings. If language is understood in the sense of ancient rhetorics as a form of power that constitutes reality, then an ethics of interpretation is called for. The task of biblical studies is to identify and assess the ethical resources and moral visions of biblical religions. "Only then," Schussler Fiorenza contends, "will bibical studies be a significant partner in the global struggles seeking justice and well-being for all."
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This brilliant scholarly treatise succeeds in bringing to our consciousness women who played an important role in the origins of Christianity.
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Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation seeks to interrupt the rhetorics and politics of meaning that, in the past decade, have compelled the proliferation of popular and scholarly books and articles about the historical Jesus, and that have turned Jesus into a commodity of neocapitalist western culture.In this spirited book, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza continues her argument begun in Jesus: Miram's Child, Sophia's Prophet (Continuum, 1995), now with a focus on the politics of Jesus scholarship. It is no accident, she maintains, that scholars in the U.S. and Europe have rediscovered the historical Jesus at a time when feminist scholarship, critical theory, interreligious dialogue, postcolonial criticism, and liberation theologies have pointed to the interconnections between knowledge and power at work in positivistic scientific circles. It is also no accident that such an explosion of Jesus books has taken place at a time when the media have discovered the "angry white male syndrome" that fuels neo-fascist movements in Europe and the U.S.The answer to this commodification of "Jesus" is not a rejection of critical scholarship and Jesus research but a call for their investigation in terms of ideology critique and ethics. By claiming to produce knowledge about the "real" Jesus, Schüssler Fiorenza points out, mainstream as well as feminist scholars refuse to stand accountable for their reconstructive cultural models and theological interests. Hence, she calls for an ethics of interpretation that can explore such a scholarly politics of meaning, rather than the ideological discourses on "Jesus and Women" that are fraught with both anti-Judaism and anti-feminism.
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How can recent advances in biblical studies empower feminist struggles and inspire all Christians to articulate a vision that promotes human dignity, justice, inclusivity and well-being for all? In this book, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza develops her insights into the study of the Bible. She reclaims the work of nineteenth and early twentieth-century feminist biblical interpreters. And she analyses several intriguing biblical passages to show how the Bible can contribute to the spiritual struggle for a more just world. Praise for Sharing Her Word: "A fresh yet seasoned stock taking of feminist Biblical hermeneutics by one of the leading figures in this field." - Old Testament Essays, 2000
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More than ten years after it was first published, this book is as important and influential as when it first appeared. By way of celebration, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza has written a new introduction, surveying responses and developments over recent years and the issues which arise from them, and commenting on her own intentions. This gives added value to what is already a classic.
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These essays represent key issues in feminist theology and the feminist religious movement—milestones in the attempts of Christian feminists to reclain their spiritual authority, define biblical religion and the Christian church, and to articulate a feminist religious vision of justice and liberation.
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Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schuessler was born on April 17, 1938 in Tschanad, Romania. Parents German citizens. Daughter of Peter and Magdalena Schuessler.
Master of Divinity, University Wuerzburg, Germany, 1962. License Theological, University Wuerzburg, 1963. DrTheol, University Muenster, Germany, 1970.
Doctor hc. mult, University Muenster, Germany.
Assistant professor theology, U. Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1970-1975;
associate professor, U. Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1975-1980;
professor, U. Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1980-1984;
instructor, U. Muenster, 1966-1967;
Talbot professor New Testament,, Episcopal Division School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984-1988;
Krister Stendahl professor division scripture and interpretation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1988. Harry Emerson Fosdick visiting professor Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1974-1975. Guest professor of University Tuebingen, ederal Republic ofGermany, 1987, Catholic Theological Faculty Luzern, Switzerland, 1990.
Stiftungs professor Humboldt U., Berlin, 1997. Ernst Troeltsch professor of University Heidelberg, Germany, 1999.
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(How can recent advances in biblical studies empower femin...)
(This book has 3 major sections: 1) introduction that cent...)
(Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's pioneering and widely accl...)
(This feminist classic explores the ways in which women ca...)
(Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza-who "stands among the most a...)
(Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza-who "stands among the most a...)
( This brilliant scholarly treatise succeeds in bringing ...)
(One of the world's leading feminist theologians demonstra...)
(In this major study, leading feminist biblical critic Eli...)
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(Anniversary)
Member of American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society Biblical Literature (past president), American Academy Religion.
Married Francis Fiorenza, December 17, 1967. 1 child, Chris.