Women's sacred scriptures /edited by Kwok Pui-Lan and Elisabeth Sch{uml}ussler Fiorenza.

Book

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Women's sacred scriptures /edited by Kwok Pui-Lan and Elisabeth Sch{uml}ussler Fiorenza.

Description

Introduction / Elisabeth Sch{uml}ussler Fiorenza -- What scriptures are sacred authority? : ambiguities of the Bible in the lives of Latin American women / Ivone Gebara -- From oral stories to written text / Joanna Dewey -- Canonization and marginalization : Mary of Magdala / Karen L. King -- In search of a woman's voice in Qur{mlrhring}anic hermeneutics / Amina Wadud -- Scripture, feminism and post-colonial contexts / Musa W. Dube Shomanah -- Women's lives as sacred text / Elsa Tamez -- The slave narratives and womanist ethics / Joan M. Martin -- Women as originators of oral scripture in an Asian society / Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt -- Performing sacred texts / Yuko Yuasa -- Praxis-exegesis : a Jewish feminist hermeneutic / Bonna Devora Haberman -- Reflection on women's sacred scriptures / Kwok Pui-lan. vi, 116 p. ;22 cm.

Book Details

Place Published

City

London :SCM Press ;Maryknoll, N.Y.

Date Published

circa 1998

Publication Subjects

Sacred books--Feminist criticism. Sacred books--History and criticism.

Call No.

BT83.55 .W65 1998

ISBN

0334030498 (UK), 1570751897 (USA)

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references.