On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in the Biblical World Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

by Schaberg, Jane; Bach, Alice; Fuchs, Esther

• ISBN13: 9780826415820
• ISBN10: 0826415822
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

These essays in honor of Professor Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza come from international feminist scholars indebted to her ground-breaking achievements in the areas of biblical studies, feminist thought and social justice. The contributors represent a wide variety of backgrounds, commitments, methodologies, talents and interests. They are united here by their appreciation for Schussler Fiorenza as a scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague and friend. The spectrum is full of vitality, with important convergences and intersections. It exemplifies what Schussler Fiorenza has called 'critical collaboration': women thinking together and creating together. This Festschrift is unique in that it celebrates the work of women in the field.

On the Cutting Edge is indexed in H.W. Wilson's Essay and General Literature Index.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Points of Resonance	1	(20)
Esther Fuchs
Women's Altars: Lived Religion from Now to Then	21	(15)
Alice Bach
The Ekklesia of Women and/as Utopian Space: Locating the Work of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza in Feminist Utopian Thought	36	(17)
Elizabeth A. Castelli
Trailblazers: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and George M. Soares-Prabhu	53	(16)
Pushpa Joseph
Some Reflections on Violence against Women and the Image of the Hebrew God: The Prophetic Books Revisited	69	(13)
Athalya Brenner
Paul and Pharisee Women	82	(20)
Tal Ilan
The Women ``Priests'' of Philo's De Vita Contemplativa: Reconstructing the Therapeutae	102	(21)
Joan E. Taylor
The Happy Holy Family in the Jesus Film Genre	123	(20)
Adele Reinhartz
Wisdom's Deviant Ways	143	(11)
Tina Pippin
Boundary Transgression and the Extreme Point in Acts 10:1-11:18	154	(17)
Ute E. Eisen
Slavery and Gender	171	(22)
Sheila Briggs
Magdalene christianity	193	(28)
Jane Schaberg
Rising Voices: The Resurrection Witness of New Testament Non-Writers	221	(9)
Antoinette Clark Wire
Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament	230	(21)
Alicia Ostriker
Contributors	251