Democratizing Biblical Studies : Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space

by Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth

• ISBN13: 9780664235093
• ISBN10: 0664235093
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-07
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza argues that it is necessary to reframe the field of biblical studies and replace the competitive teaching models prevalent in graduate programs with an emancipatory, radical democratic pedagogical model that fosters collaboration, participation, and critical engagement. To achieve constructive engagement with the differences of social location and diversity of perspectives that exist both in the Bible and in our contexts, Fiorenza argues, we must become aware of the pitfalls of one-dimensional thinking that seeks to use the Bible to find definite answers and to exclude different understandings.

Author Biography

Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenza is Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity. Harvard Divinity School. Her Books include In Memory of Her: Bread Not stone; But She Said; Discipleship of Equals; Sharing Her Word; Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation; Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation; and The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire. She was the first women scholar to serve as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. She also is cofounder and coeditor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Toward a Radical Democratic Self-Understanding of Biblical Studies	p. 1
Contextualizing Arguments for a Radical Democratic Educational Space	p. 7
Toward a Radical Democratic Pedagogy of Biblical Studies	p. 12
The Rhetorical Space of Graduate Biblical Studies	p. 23
Charting the Problem	p. 24
The Need to Transform the Discourses of Biblical Studies	p. 30
Proposals for Re-Visioning Biblical Studies	p. 38
Problematizing the Dualistic-Domain Construction of the Field of Biblical Studies	p. 44
A Republic of Many Voices: Paradigms of Biblical Studies	p. 51
Paradigm Criticism	p. 52
Redescribing and Renaming the Four Paradigms of Biblical Studies	p. 63
Conclusion	p. 81
Fashioning a Radical Democratic Discourse	p. 85
Delineating the Fourth Emancipatory Paradigm	p. 87
Discursive Struggles within the Fourth Paradigm: From Margin to Postcolonialism	p. 95
Toward a Shared Analytic: Intersectional Analysis of Kyriarchy	p. 106
A Pedagogical Model of Agency and Conscientization	p. 120
Changing Biblical Studies: Toward a Radical Democratic Pedagogy and Ethos	p. 127
Transforming Malestream Pedagogical Models	p. 130
Toward a Radical Democratic Emancipatory Pedagogy	p. 139
Transforming the Didactic Triangle	p. 149
Toward a Radical Democratic Emancipatory Ethos-Space	p. 160
Instead of a Conclusion	p. 166
Metalogue: From Theory to Practice	p. 169
Creating a Radical Democratic Space: Forum	p. 170
Creating a Radical Democratic Space: Seminar	p. 172
A Forum of Many Voices/A Kaleidoscope of Personal Reflections	p. 176
Index	p. 207
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