Wo/Men, Scripture, and Politics: Exploring the Cultural Imprint of the Bible - Paperback

by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Author)

In Wo/men, Scripture, and Politics, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, brings to bear years of trailblazing scholarship of feminist thought and hermeneutics onto the current political and cultural landscape. In this book, she seeks to articulate and use biblical interpretation as intervention into the failure of the democratic cultural-political imagination. Although such an intervention is often taboo for supposedly neutral academic scholarship, Schüssler Fiorenza argues that it is politically necessary because political argument today so often utilizes biblical rhetoric in the public square. e biblical-political analysis and suggestions of this book are developed in four chapters, each focusing on the role of the Bible in struggles over women's leadership in the present, touching on the cultural "double bind" of women in politics, sexual abuse, power, and the #MeToo movement. Schüssler Fiorenza's insights and arguments not only lead to the development of reimagined cultural biblical imprints of women in the political arena, but they also encourage her readers to add their own biblical examples to inspire them in their struggle for a biblical vision of "women in the public square." is is an insightful, challenging book written for our time by someone who has always seemed to be ahead of hers.

Author Biography

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, the Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, has been one of the leading scholars of feminist theology and interpretation for over three decades. She is author of many important and inuential works, among them In Memory of Her: A Feminist eological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (1983) and Changing Horizons: Explorations in Feminist Interpretation (2013). Schüssler Fiorenza is founding co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and past president of the Society of Biblical Literature.