On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in the Biblical World
Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in the Biblical World
Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826415820
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 01/03/2003
These essay in honour of Professor Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza draw on international feminist scholarship indebted to her ground-breaking achievements in the areas of biblical studies, feminist thought and social justice. The contributors represent a wide variety of backgrounds, commitments, methodologies, talents and interests. They are united here by their appreciation for her as a scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague and friend. The spectrum is full of vitality, with important convergences and intersections. It exemplifies what Schussler Fiorenza has called "critical collaboration": women thinking together and creating together. This Festschrift is unique in that it celebrates the work of all women in the field.
Table of Contents: Editors' Introduction Esther Fuchs, "Points of Resonance" Alice Bach, "Women's Altars: Lived Religion from Now to Then" Jane Schaberg, "Magdalene Christianity" Elizabeth A. Castelli, "The Ekklesia of Women and/as Utopian Space: Locating the Work of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza in Feminist Utopian Thought" Pushpa Joseph, "Trail Blazers: Schussler Fiorenza and Soares Prabhu - A Comparative Study" Athalya Brenner, "Some Reflectons on Violence Against Women and the Image of the Hebrew God: The Prophetic Books Revisited" Joan E. Taylor, "The Women 'Priests' of Philo's De Vita Contemplativa: Reconstructing the Thereapeutae" Tal Ilan, "Paul and Pharisee Women" Adele Reinhartz, "The Happy Holy Family in the Jesus Film Genre" Tina Pippin, "Wisdom's Deviant Ways" Ute Eisen, "Boundary Transgression and the Extreme Point in Acts 10:1-11:18" Sheila Briggs, "Slavery and Gender" Antoinette Clark Wire, "Rising Voices: The Resurrection Witness of New Testament Non-Writers" Alicia Suskind Ostrker, "Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament"
"Stronger than many an edited volume, the book is unified by Elisabeth's underlying presence. It is also remarkably consistent in the quality of its contributions despite the diversity of its content and its contributors, their social locations, motivations, and precise expertise. In my opinion, the book is well worth a read and would be a valuable contribution to a Women's Studies or a Women and Religion seminar." -Alice L. Laffey, Horizons, Vol. 34, No. 2, Fall 2007 --Sanford Lakoff
