The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire

What is the purpose of reading the Bible? Elisabeth SchsslerFiorenza tackles the tough question of the Bible's role in theworld today and how its vision can further a more just world. Sheshows particularly the radical power of the Word to challengeimperial ways, the humiliation of persons, and the use of religionitself to keep people down, today as then. Finally, she offers anunderstanding of the implications of such a program for thefield and practice of biblical studies, an indispensable partner inchallenging the status quo.

Author: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 10/10/2007
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.06w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780800638344

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 12/15/2009 pg. 48

About the Author
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler: -

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza is Krister Stendahl Professor at Harvard Divinity School, a founding co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, past president of the Society of Biblical Literature, and author of many important and influential works, among them In Memory of Her (1984), Bread Not Stone (1985), Jesus: Miriams Child, Sophias Prophet (1995), Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics of Biblical Studies (1999), The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (2007), and Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space (2009). Empowering Memory and Movement is the third volume in her collected essays from Fortress Press, including Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy (2011) and Changing Horizons: Explorations in Feminist Interpretation (2013). She is editor of Searching the Scriptures (two volumes, 1993, 1994), a feminist introduction and commentary.

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