Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective

by Barbara Rumscheidt, Martin H. Rumscheidt, Luise Schottroff, Silvia Schroer (Editor), Marie-Theres Wacker (Editor)

Overview

In the hundred years since The Women's Bible, giant strides have been made in feminist interpretation of the Bible. Now comes the first comprehensive overview of the whole field. The authors systematicallyrecount those efforts to describe the story of women in both testaments, to uncover tendencies not supportive of women, and to describe biblical traditions that empower women. The book unfolds in three parts:

Historical, Hermeneutical, and Methodological Foundations

Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of the History of Israel

Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Early Christianity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800629991
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	05/08/1998
Series:	Progress in Neural Processing; 7
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Martin Rumscheidtis an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada and retired professor of historical theology at the University of Windsor, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Charles University, Prague. He is the translator of Act and Being (1996)in Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition, and cotranslator with the late Barbara Rumscheidt of Soelle"s Against the Wind (1999) and The Silent Cry.

Luise Schottroff taught New Testament and feminist theology at the University of Kassel, Germany, and was the author of numerous books and articles in New Testament and theology, including (with Silvia Schroer and Marie-Theres Wacker) Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective (1998, 978-0-8006- 2999-1) and The Parables of Jesus: A Feminist Approach (2005, 978- 0-8006-3699-9).

Silvia Schroer is Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Berne, Switzerland.

Marie-Theres Wacker is Professor of Biblical Theology, University of Cologne, Germany.