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010			_a 2008016228
020			_a9780800663001 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aBS2650.52 _b.M27 2008
082	0	0	_a227.0608 Mar 2008 c.2 _222
100	1		_aMarchal, Joseph A.
245	1	4	_aThe politics of heaven : _bwomen, gender, and empire in the study of Paul / _cJoseph A. Marchal.
260			_aMinneapolis, MN : _bFortress Press, _c2008.
263			_a0808
300			_axiii, 213p. ; _c24 cm.
440		0	_aPaul in critical contexts
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
630	0	0	_aBible. _pN.T. _pEpistles of Paul _xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650		0	_aSex role _xBiblical teaching.
650		0	_aFeminist theology.
650		0	_aPostcolonialism.
650		0	_aChristianity and politics _xBiblical teaching.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008016228.html
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