Searching the Scriptures Volume one, A feminist introduction / [print] edited by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza with the assistance of Shelly Matthews. - New York : Crossroad, (c)1997. - xiii, 397 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

History of biblical interpretation by European women Anna Julia Cooper and Sojourner Truth: two nineteenth-century black feminist interpreters of Scripture Politicizing the sacred texts: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the The Woman's Bible Dusting the Bible on the floor: a hermeneutics of wisdom Feminist interpretations in Africa La palabra de Dios en nosotras- the word of God in us Racism and ethnocentrism in feminist biblical interpretation Anti-Judaism in feminist Christian interpretation Native American women, missionaries, and Scriptures Unity of the Bible, unity of the church: confessionalism, ecumenism, and feminist hermeneutics Feminist theological hermeneutics: canon and Christian identity The face of transcendence as a challenge to the reading of the Bible in Latin America Les belles infideles/fidelity or feminism? the meanings of feminist biblical translation Historical- critical methods Toward a materialist-feminist reading Literary-critical methods Social, sociological, and anthropological methods Toward a multicultural ecumenical history of women in the first century/ies C.E. / Barbara H. Geller Nathanson -- Reconstruction of women's early Christian history Feminist interpretation and liturgical proclamation Womanist interpretation and preaching in the black church Shifting the paradigm: feminist Bible study A method of conscientization: feminist Bible study in the Netherlands Teaching feminist biblical studies in a Postcolonial context Elisabeth Gossmann -- Karen Baker-Fletcher -- Carolyn De Swarte Gifford -- Rita Nakashima Brock -- Teresa Okure -- Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz -- Kwok Pui-lan -- Judith Plaskow -- Carol Devens-Green -- Melanie A. May and Lauree Hersch Meyer -- Claudia V. Camp -- Ivone Gebara -- Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Monika Fander -- Brigitte Kahl -- Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and Janice Capel Anderson -- Mary Ann Tolbert -- Karen Jo Torjesen -- Marjorie Procter-Smith -- Katie G. Cannon -- Alison M. Cheek -- Lieve Troch -- Kathleen O'Brien Wicker.



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Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 60-300.

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