Her Master's Tools?: Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-critical Discourse

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Caroline Vander Stichele, Todd C. Penner
Society of Biblical Lit, 2005 - 390 pages

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Tandoori Reindeer and the Limitations of Historical Criticism
47
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

Reading Lamentations
195

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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.

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