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De Gruyter eBooks, Apr 24, 2023
Journal of Biblical Literature
This is a writing of Heb 11:1–12:2 in memory of and inspired by the Asian and Asian American wome... more This is a writing of Heb 11:1–12:2 in memory of and inspired by the Asian and Asian American women killed in the Atlanta, Georgia, area on 16 March 2021. It does not reread the passage but rather writes a new passage that honors Asian women immigrants, their histories, and their faith as seekers of a homeland. The themes of lineage, ancestors, migration, faith, and rest in a promised land from Heb 11:1–12:2 are transformed and woven in hermeneutical poiesis to confront the long history and current wave of anti-Asian hate, erasure, and violence against Asian and Asian American women. The purpose of this article is twofold: to produce a text from Scripture that honors and memorializes the women in the context of the Asian American community and to articulate how this creative hermeneutic expands the scope of biblical studies. After an introduction, the new passage is presented alongside the verses from Hebrews, followed by a discussion of methodology and a commentary on the new text.
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts, 2016
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts, 2016
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts, 2016
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts, 2016
Biblical Interpretation, 2012
Some studies of the New Testament and classical world have considered gender and ethnicity while ... more Some studies of the New Testament and classical world have considered gender and ethnicity while others have investigated race within the politics of empire. This volume introduces intersectional analysis, asking us to think about the shifting relationships between the three categories while considering the unexamined legacies of nineteenth-and twentieth-century methods of interpretation. What a daunting task! As more than one author laments, mastering one branch of knowledge is difficult enough, let alone several. Yet failure to engage these multiple disciplines can yield one-sided images of history, and blindness to our own assumptions. The introductory essay by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza describes the ambitious aims and benefits of intersectional analysis. Quite simply, intersectional analysis gives a truer sense of how people live in the world because it looks at multiple social structural positions. For example, women of subordinate groups (by way of national, ethnic, and racial designation) are often more oppressed by elite white women than by men of their own group. Those elite women hold power by way of class, while they are denied it by way of gender. One thinks of the early suffrage movement and its racism as emblematic of these complexities. As always, Schüssler Fiorenza's attention to language, with words like "kyriarchy," "malestream," and "the*logy," makes us think twice. Shelley P. Haley, in "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies," integrates categories in showing how nineteenth-century interpreters placed their images of black womanhood on top of ancient Roman views of color and foreigners. Roman literature conceived of Dido, the African foreigner, as an exotic temptress. Scybale, the female African companion of Pseudo-Virgil's Moretum, however, becomes a large-breasted oddity or an old negress servant at the hands of early twentieth-century translators. Haley shows that albus, translated as "white" by Europeans, was more likely pale brown in the Mediterranean world, just as ater, candidus, and fuscus, applied to Mediterranean people, are likely to be varying shades of brown.
Early Christianity, 2020
Anhand eines Vergleichs zwischen neutestamentlicher Textkritik und musikalischer Aufführungspraxi... more Anhand eines Vergleichs zwischen neutestamentlicher Textkritik und musikalischer Aufführungspraxis sondiert dieser Aufsatz die Begriffe von Urheberschaft, Performanz, Authentizität und Tradition. Anstelle der westlichen Klassik schlägt die Autorin den Jazz als Comparandum zur Textkritik vor und entwickelt daraus ein Deutungsmuster für die Textkritik als kreative Philologie, die die technischen Fertigkeiten herkömmlicher Textkritik mit einer schöpferischen Interpretationsweise verbindet und dabei den Einfluss aus der Zusammenarbeit von Interpreten und aus verschiedenen Traditionen anerkennt.
The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality
This chapter contends that the study of gender, sexuality, and the New Testament is not limited t... more This chapter contends that the study of gender, sexuality, and the New Testament is not limited to the content of texts or their historical contexts. On the contrary, how we formulate a textual entity and how we approach that entity contribute to the dynamics that constitute identity, and are thus important to the discussion. In the case of the New Testament, Western Christianity has understood the active Word, or Logos, of God as “masculine” in its creative power. The text of the New Testament, on the other hand, requires historical and philological study, and is decidedly “feminine” in its vulnerability to disease and adulteration, especially in the field of textual criticism. Disrupting metaphors and conceptions of text and speech, masculine and feminine, can be found in ancient Judaism’s formulation of the Written and Oral Torah, as well as in Clement of Alexandria, the Odes of Solomon, and in Plato.
Present and Future of Biblical Studies
Biblical Interpretation, 2016
Journal of Biblical Literature
Horizons in Biblical Theology, 2010
Joseph Marchal, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University, agues in The p... more Joseph Marchal, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University, agues in The politics of heaven: women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul that a combined approach of both feminist and postcolonial scholarship that focuses on 'gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and empire'provides a more useful overall interpretive framework, referred to as 'multi‐axial'(3). Furthermore, Marchal hopes to show how 'Paul's letters and Pauline scholarship are the results of imperially gendered activities'. Thus, the focus of his work is ' ...
De Gruyter eBooks, Apr 24, 2023
Journal of Biblical Literature
This is a writing of Heb 11:1–12:2 in memory of and inspired by the Asian and Asian American wome... more This is a writing of Heb 11:1–12:2 in memory of and inspired by the Asian and Asian American women killed in the Atlanta, Georgia, area on 16 March 2021. It does not reread the passage but rather writes a new passage that honors Asian women immigrants, their histories, and their faith as seekers of a homeland. The themes of lineage, ancestors, migration, faith, and rest in a promised land from Heb 11:1–12:2 are transformed and woven in hermeneutical poiesis to confront the long history and current wave of anti-Asian hate, erasure, and violence against Asian and Asian American women. The purpose of this article is twofold: to produce a text from Scripture that honors and memorializes the women in the context of the Asian American community and to articulate how this creative hermeneutic expands the scope of biblical studies. After an introduction, the new passage is presented alongside the verses from Hebrews, followed by a discussion of methodology and a commentary on the new text.
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts, 2016
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts, 2016
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts, 2016
The Erotic Life of Manuscripts, 2016
Biblical Interpretation, 2012
Some studies of the New Testament and classical world have considered gender and ethnicity while ... more Some studies of the New Testament and classical world have considered gender and ethnicity while others have investigated race within the politics of empire. This volume introduces intersectional analysis, asking us to think about the shifting relationships between the three categories while considering the unexamined legacies of nineteenth-and twentieth-century methods of interpretation. What a daunting task! As more than one author laments, mastering one branch of knowledge is difficult enough, let alone several. Yet failure to engage these multiple disciplines can yield one-sided images of history, and blindness to our own assumptions. The introductory essay by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza describes the ambitious aims and benefits of intersectional analysis. Quite simply, intersectional analysis gives a truer sense of how people live in the world because it looks at multiple social structural positions. For example, women of subordinate groups (by way of national, ethnic, and racial designation) are often more oppressed by elite white women than by men of their own group. Those elite women hold power by way of class, while they are denied it by way of gender. One thinks of the early suffrage movement and its racism as emblematic of these complexities. As always, Schüssler Fiorenza's attention to language, with words like "kyriarchy," "malestream," and "the*logy," makes us think twice. Shelley P. Haley, in "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies," integrates categories in showing how nineteenth-century interpreters placed their images of black womanhood on top of ancient Roman views of color and foreigners. Roman literature conceived of Dido, the African foreigner, as an exotic temptress. Scybale, the female African companion of Pseudo-Virgil's Moretum, however, becomes a large-breasted oddity or an old negress servant at the hands of early twentieth-century translators. Haley shows that albus, translated as "white" by Europeans, was more likely pale brown in the Mediterranean world, just as ater, candidus, and fuscus, applied to Mediterranean people, are likely to be varying shades of brown.
Early Christianity, 2020
Anhand eines Vergleichs zwischen neutestamentlicher Textkritik und musikalischer Aufführungspraxi... more Anhand eines Vergleichs zwischen neutestamentlicher Textkritik und musikalischer Aufführungspraxis sondiert dieser Aufsatz die Begriffe von Urheberschaft, Performanz, Authentizität und Tradition. Anstelle der westlichen Klassik schlägt die Autorin den Jazz als Comparandum zur Textkritik vor und entwickelt daraus ein Deutungsmuster für die Textkritik als kreative Philologie, die die technischen Fertigkeiten herkömmlicher Textkritik mit einer schöpferischen Interpretationsweise verbindet und dabei den Einfluss aus der Zusammenarbeit von Interpreten und aus verschiedenen Traditionen anerkennt.
The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality
This chapter contends that the study of gender, sexuality, and the New Testament is not limited t... more This chapter contends that the study of gender, sexuality, and the New Testament is not limited to the content of texts or their historical contexts. On the contrary, how we formulate a textual entity and how we approach that entity contribute to the dynamics that constitute identity, and are thus important to the discussion. In the case of the New Testament, Western Christianity has understood the active Word, or Logos, of God as “masculine” in its creative power. The text of the New Testament, on the other hand, requires historical and philological study, and is decidedly “feminine” in its vulnerability to disease and adulteration, especially in the field of textual criticism. Disrupting metaphors and conceptions of text and speech, masculine and feminine, can be found in ancient Judaism’s formulation of the Written and Oral Torah, as well as in Clement of Alexandria, the Odes of Solomon, and in Plato.
Present and Future of Biblical Studies
Biblical Interpretation, 2016
Journal of Biblical Literature
Horizons in Biblical Theology, 2010
Joseph Marchal, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University, agues in The p... more Joseph Marchal, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University, agues in The politics of heaven: women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul that a combined approach of both feminist and postcolonial scholarship that focuses on 'gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and empire'provides a more useful overall interpretive framework, referred to as 'multi‐axial'(3). Furthermore, Marchal hopes to show how 'Paul's letters and Pauline scholarship are the results of imperially gendered activities'. Thus, the focus of his work is ' ...
Journal of Philosophy and Scripture