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FEMINIST BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION IN THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT

This book presents a new model for biblical interpretation, exploring the intersecting perspectives of feminism, postmodern philosophies and Christian theology. Feminist biblical interpretation, like other areas of feminist scholarship, has increasingly moved beyond aggregating information about women in patriarchy and developed complex and nuanced hermeneutic theories.

Answering a need to bring together feminist approaches to the bible with a theological framework for interpretation, the book is structured in two parts. Part one considers two major paradigms of biblical interpretation, the historical and the literary, through analysis of Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenza and Phyllis Trible. Part Two draws on these various overlapping approaches to develop an innovative model of biblical interpretation which is rooted not only in feminism and postmodern worldviews, but also in Christian theology. Students and scholars of feminism, postmodernism, interpretation theory and Christian theology will find this book offers a particularly valuable contribution to the debate.

ASHGATE NEW CRITICAL THINKING IN THEOLOGY & BIBLICAL STUDIES

Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Theology & Biblical Studies presents an openended series of quality research drawn from an international field of scholarship. The series aims to bring monograph publishing back into focus for authors, the international library market, and student, academic and research readers. Headed by an international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars, this series presents cutting-edge research from established as well as exciting new authors in the field. With specialist focus, yet clear contextual presentation, books in the series aim to take theological and biblical research into new directions; opening the field to new critical debate within the traditions, into areas of related study, and into important topics for contemporary society.

Series Editorial Board:

David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK

James Beckford, University of Warwick, UK

Raymond B. Williams, Wabash College, USA

Geoffrey Samuel, University of Newcastle, Australia

Richard Hutch, University of Queensland, Australia

Paul Fiddes, University of Oxford, UK

Anthony C. Thiselton, The University of Nottingham, UK

Tim Gorringe, University of Exeter, UK

Adrian Thatcher, College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK

Mary Grey, Sarum College, Salisbury, UK

Alan Torrance, University of St Andrews, UK

Judith Lieu, King's College London, UK

Terrance Tilley, University of Dayton, USA

Miroslav Volf, Yale Divinity School, USA

Stanley J. Grenz, Carey Theological College, Canada

Vincent Brummer, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Gerhard Sauter, University of Bonn, Germany

Other Titles in the Series:

Charismatic Glossolalia

Mark J. Cartledge

God in the Act of Reference

Erica Appelros

A Poetics of Jesus

Jeffrey F Keuss

The Rhetorical Word

Theo Hobson

Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Theological Context

Restless readings

JANNINE JOBLING

Liverpool Hope University College, UK

First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
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Copyright J'annine Jobling 2002

The author has asserted her moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

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A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 2002100761

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-73389-3 (hbk)
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ISBN 13: 978-1-315-18753-2 (ebk)

Contents

The support of Liverpool Hope and Canterbury Christ Church University College during the undertaking of this project is gratefully acknowledged. I would like to thank Professor Simon Lee, Rector and Chief Executive of Liverpool Hope, for his encouragement and assistance. I should also like to make mention of St. Deiniols Library, in which congenial surroundings much of the text here took shape.

For academic and personal support during its completion, I would like to give particular thanks to Professor Ian Markham. Other individuals whose warmth and supportiveness have assisted in the completion of this book are too numerous to name, but include all my friends from Canterbury, Cambridge and Liverpool. However, I must include a special thank you to Ursula Leahy, whose inestimatible cat-sitting services facilitated enormously the practicalities of my research, and who also compiled the index.

Some of the material in may be found in different form within my chapters in: Robert Hannaford and Jannine Jobling (eds.), Theology and the Body (Gracewing: Leominster, 1999) and Jannine Jobling and Ian Markham (eds.), Theological Liberalism (London: SPCK 2000).

This book is dedicated to my mother.

Chapter 1
Introduction

The rules break like a thermometer,

quicksilver spills cross the charted systems,

were out in a country that has no language

no laws, were chasing the raven and the wren

through gorges unexplored since dawn

whatever we do together is pure invention

the maps they gave us were out of date by years1

This poetic fragment by Adrienne Rich embodies a central problematic for feminist thought, and by extension, for this book. Feminist philosophies are attempts at thinking otherwise. To think otherwise on the basis of existing prevailing categories and models of truth, reason and knowledge would lock feminism into the system which it strives to dismantle.2 To articulate a feminist philosophical perspective requires a comprehensive restructuring of epistemology, ontology and subjectivity. However, feminists cannot simply take a leap into pure alterity and set sail for new and uncharted lands; thinking otherwise requires a renegotiation of the landscapes in which feminists already are. In this territory, nothing can be taken for granted.

The impact of feminism, then, radiates out in shockwaves which leave no area undisturbed. This book is positioned at one particular nexus of feminist disturbance, namely, the area of biblical hermeneutics within Christian theological context. A recurring theme is the interaction of feminist biblical hermeneutics with postmodern philosophies. It is an exercise, proceeding from these intersecting perspectives, which seeks to put forward constructive proposals for a paradigm of feminist and theological interpretation.

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