The women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul Marchal, Joseph A. creator text bibliography mnu Minneapolis, MN Fortress Press 2008 monographic eng

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xiii, 213p. ; 24 cm. 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. Joseph A. Marchal. Includes bibliographical references and index. Criticism, interpretation, etc Sex role Biblical teaching Feminist theology Postcolonialism Christianity and politics Biblical teaching BS2650.52 .M27 2008 227.0608 Mar 2008 c.2 9780800663001 (hardback) 2008016228 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008016228.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008016228.html DLC 150206 20260417211728.0 15254385