Her Master's Tools?: Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-critical DiscourseCaroline Vander Stichele, Todd C. Penner Society of Biblical Lit, 2005 - 390 pages |
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... cultural framework of his thinking and the discourse to which it belongs . In the opening paragraph of his essay on the essence of the modern spirit , Troeltsch refers to " the complicated life of the white race today . ' . " 20 ...
... cultural framework of his thinking and the discourse to which it belongs . In the opening paragraph of his essay on the essence of the modern spirit , Troeltsch refers to " the complicated life of the white race today . ' . " 20 ...
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... cultural time period once this basic “ malice ” is uncovered , or , at the very least , admitted . From within this ideological perspective pursued here one can look more closely at the broad construction of particular subjects in ...
... cultural time period once this basic “ malice ” is uncovered , or , at the very least , admitted . From within this ideological perspective pursued here one can look more closely at the broad construction of particular subjects in ...
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... cultural , and social truths of the nine- teenth century . This move provided not just a diachronic extension , it also had synchronic effects in terms of constructing a perception of stabil- ity in a particular given historical epoch ...
... cultural , and social truths of the nine- teenth century . This move provided not just a diachronic extension , it also had synchronic effects in terms of constructing a perception of stabil- ity in a particular given historical epoch ...
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... cultural interactions of this period , see Sue Thornham , Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies : Stories of Unsettled Relations ( London : Arnold , New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 ) , 44–70 . 39. See further the helpful ...
... cultural interactions of this period , see Sue Thornham , Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies : Stories of Unsettled Relations ( London : Arnold , New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 ) , 44–70 . 39. See further the helpful ...
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... Cultural Context : Issues of Method in Historical Reconstruction , ” in Yarbro Collins , Feminist Perspectives , 65 ... cultures were undertaken around this same time . See , e.g. , Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza , In Memory of Her : A ...
... Cultural Context : Issues of Method in Historical Reconstruction , ” in Yarbro Collins , Feminist Perspectives , 65 ... cultures were undertaken around this same time . See , e.g. , Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza , In Memory of Her : A ...
Contents
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Imagination as a Resource in | 71 |
Postcolonialism and the Practice of History | 93 |
The Rhetorical FullTurn in Biblical Interpretation | 109 |
Engaging the DialogueDance between | 129 |
Following Orders Given by Old Joshua | 145 |
What Have I to Do with Them? | 159 |
Their Hermeneutics Was Strange Ours Is a Necessity | 179 |
Theory | 211 |
On the Absence of Feminist Criticism | 233 |
Scribal Blunder or Textual Plunder? Codex Bezae Textual | 253 |
Paul and the Rhetoric of Gender | 287 |
Why Cant the Heavenly Miss Jerusalem Just Shut | 311 |
Babies and Bathwater on the Road | 333 |
Index of Primary Sources | 375 |
Contributors | 389 |
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Page 80 - in general there has been a reluctance to consider historical narratives as what they most manifestly are: verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as found and the forms of which have more in common with their counterparts in literature than they have with those in the sciences.
Page 250 - The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, 65 besides their menservants and maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers. °° Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules were two hundred and forty-five, 67 their camels were four hundred and thirty-five, and their asses were six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
Page 1 - For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
Page 84 - I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-US Southwest/Mexican border The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks with intimacy.
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Page 16 - The critical task for feminism is not to establish a point of view outside of constructed identities; that conceit is the construction of an epistemological model that would disavow its own cultural location and, hence, promote itself as a global subject, a position that deploys precisely the imperialist strategies that feminism ought to criticize. The critical task is, rather, to locate strategies of subversive repetition...
Page 9 - We want historians to confirm our belief that the present rests upon profound intentions and immutable necessities. But the true historical sense confirms our existence among countless lost events, without a landmark or a point of reference.
Page 151 - The commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, "Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.
Page 249 - Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.