Reading from This Place, Volume 1

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Fernando F. Segovia, Mary Ann Tolbert
Fortress Press - 336 páginas
Are some readings of the Bible more objective than others? More privileged? More true? How does one's own life situation shape one's reading of the text? What will acknowledgment of the validity of a variety of perspectives mean for historical-critical methods of interpretation?
The present dizzying pluralism of "locations" - not only of ethnicity, class, and gender, but also of social and religious standpoints - presents a daunting challenge to older, mainstream interpretive schemes. In this landmark project, Segovia, Tolbert, and their fifteen other contributors have begun to measure the impact of social location on the theory and practice of biblical interpretation.
This volume, and the international one to follow, signals the critical legitimation of reading strategies that supplement or modify or even in some ways dethrone the historical-critical paradigm that has dominated academic biblical studies for 200 years. It will provide immediate and enduring guidance to scholars and students sorting through the complex epistemological, social, historical, and religious questions that issue from this paradigm shift.
 

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Acknowledging the Contextual Character of Male EuropeanAmerican Critical Exegeses An Androcritical Perspective
35
Toward a Hermeneutics of the Diaspora A Hermeneutics of Otherness and Engagement
57
Social Location and the Hermeneutical Mode of Integration
75
Reading Texts as Reading Ourselves A Chapter in the History of AfricanAmerican Biblical Interpretation
95
The AuthorTextReader and Power Suggestions for a Critical Framework for Biblical Studies
109
Contestations Social Locations in Conflict
119
Theyre Nothing but Incestuous Bastards The Polemical Use of Sex and Sexuality in Hebrew Canon Narratives
121
Reading from My Bicultural Place Acts 617
139
And I Will Strike Her Children Dead Death and the Deconstruction of Social Location
191
Solidarity and Contextuality Readings of Matthew 182135
199
A Second Step in African Biblical Interpretation A Generic Reading Analysis of Acts 82640
213
Social Location and Accountability
229
The Uninflected Therefore of Hosea 413
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Framing Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary A Student SelfInventory on Biblical Hermeneutics
251
Reading for Liberation
263
The God of Jesus in the Gospel Sayings Source
277

By the Rivers of Babylon Exile as a Way of Life
149
Reading the Cornelius Story from an Asian Immigrant Perspective
165
Hemmed in on Every Side Jews and Women in the Book of Susanna
175
The Politics and Poetics of Location
305
Index of Names
319
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