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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: For a Biblical (Wo/man) Scholar to Speak in the Ekklesia
- Feminist Struggles against Silencing
- The Politics of Biblical Studies
Part One: Theoretical Explorations
1. The Ethics of Biblical Interpreation:
Decentering Biblical Scholarship
- Social Location and Biblical Criticism
- The Rhetoric of Biblical Scholarship
- The Ethos of Biblical Scholarship:
Critical Rhetoric and Ethics
2. Changing the Paradigms:
The Ethos of Biblical Studies
- The Intellectual-Cultural Contexts of Biblical Studies
- Competing Paradigms in Biblical Studies
- Emancipation and Interpretation
3. Shifting the Focus: The Politics of Biblical Studies
- Critical Turns and Turnings in the Ethos of Biblical Scholarship
- A (Feminist) Ethic of Inquiry
- Conclusion
4. Challenging the Rhetorical Half-Turn:
Feminist and Rhetorical
- Biblical Criticism
- A Rhetoric of Inquiry
- A Feminist Rhetoric
- The Feminine Coding of Rhetoric and Religion
- Critical Engagement
Part Two: Rhetorical Practices
5. Rhetorical Situation and Historical Reconstruction in 1 Corinthians
- Contemporary Interpretations
- The Rhetorical Arrangement of 1 Corinthians
- Rhetorical Situation and Genre
- Historical Reconstruction and Theological Assesment
- A Critical Rhetorical Model of Analysis
6. The Rhetoricity of Historical Knowledge:
Pauline Discourse and Its
- Contextualizations
- Scientific Objectivist Frameworks
- Kyriocentric Rhetoricity and Historical Reality
- "Religious Propaganda" in a "Doubled" Process of Interpretation
7. Ideology, Power, and Interpretaion: Galatians 3:28
- Ideology, Power, and Interpretation
- Galatians 3:28 as a Focal Point of Feminist Debate
8. Pauline Theology and the Politics of Meaning
- Biblical Theology as a Theological Rhetoric of Inquiry
- Biblical Theology as a Politics of Meaning
- The Hegemonic Politics of Meaning
- Biblical Theology as the Rhetoric of Ekklesia
- In place of a Conclusion
Appendices
- The Ethics of Interpretation: Thirteen Theses
- The Rhetorics of Interpretation: Analytic Compass
Selected Bibliography