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Women's sacred scriptures / edited by Kwok Pui-Lan and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.

Contributor(s): Kwok, Pui-lan | Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Undetermined Series: Concilium (Glen Rock, N.J.): 1998/3.Publisher: London : SCM Press ; Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: vi, 116 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0334030498 (UK); 1570751897 (USA)Subject(s): Sacred books -- Feminist criticism | Sacred books -- History and criticismBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Elisabeth Schüssler 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 Qurʼanic 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.

Some contributions translated by Paul Burns.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Elisabeth Schüssler 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 Qurʼanic 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.

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