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.