02913ctm a22003618a 4500 15254385 OSt 20260417211728.0 ta 150206s2008 mnu b 001 0 eng 2008016228 9780800663001 (hardback) DLC DLC DLC BS2650.52 .M27 2008 227.0608 Mar 2008 c.2 22 Marchal, Joseph A. The politics of heaven : women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul / Joseph A. Marchal. Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2008. 0808 xiii, 213p. ; 24 cm. Paul in critical contexts Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of methods -- Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this Book -- Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies -- Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation -- Gaps, erasures, and conflicts -- Procedure and precedent -- People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective -- People's history and Pauline studies -- Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches -- A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma -- -- A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul -- Does this text encourage travel to distant and inhabited lands and how does it justify itself? -- How does this text construct difference : is there dialogue and liberating interdependence or condemnation of all that is foreign? -- Does this text employ gender and divine representations to construct relationships of subordination and domination? -- Initial connections and conclusions -- The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry -- Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship -- The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry -- Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry -- Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist postcolonial analysis -- Women in the contact zone -- Contact zone and transcultural interactions -- Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone -- Concluding reflections and connections. Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul Criticism, interpretation, etc. Sex role Biblical teaching. Feminist theology. Postcolonialism. Christianity and politics Biblical teaching. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008016228.html 7 rix orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg BK ddc 17206 17206 0 0 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 227.0608 Mar 2008 6143 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 BK 0 0 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 227.0608 Mar 2008 c.2 6417 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 BK