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Finding Your Voice & Recovering Those Long Lost
 - Our first readings for the quarter provide the history of and rationale for feminist biblical interpretation, the first of our theoretical approaches (we will also look at queer and trans interpretation of the Bible).
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- Begin with Anne Clifford's chapter introducing the reasons feminism arose in the west, and the three "waves" of its history. Consider whether any of the women's experiences that led women to work for more power and equality are experiences that you have had (you will write about this in your autobiographical paper, due next week).
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- Her next chapter introduces Christian feminism(s). Be able to identify the three types of Christian feminism she discusses, and how they challenge the tradition.
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- The image above right is a medieval depiction of our primary reading, the earliest creation story in the Bible (Gen 2:4b-25). As you read this story in the Bible, be able to identify the order of created things, and decide for yourself whether the medieval artist has portrayed the woman as an equal to the man and whether this reading is justified by the original text.
Then read Phyllis Trible's article challenging the traditional Christian interpretation of this story. What is her thesis, and how does she prove it? How is her work an example of feminist scholarship, and what type of Christian feminism does it reflect?
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- Assigned Readings
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- Primary:
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- Anne M. Clifford, "Introduction" and "The 'Why' and 'What' of Christian Feminist Theology," in Introducing Feminist Theology (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2001) 1-38 (Camino)
- Phyllis Trible, "Depatriarchalizing in Biblical Interpretation," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 41:1 (1973) 30-48 (Camino)
- online class prep
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- Handout on Genesis 2:18-25
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- Slides for Lecture
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- Today's Authors
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Anne M. Clifford is Associate Professor Emerita at Iowa State University, former president of the College Theology Society, and a religious sister in the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Her teaching and research focuses on Christian theology and the natural sciences, Catholic social teachings, theologies of creation and ecology, environmental ethics, and feminist theology and spirituality. |
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Phyllis Trible has retired from her academic career, though still serves occasionally at her alma mater, Union Theological Seminary in New York City, as Visiting Professor of Old Testament. She taught at Wake Forest University, Andover Newton Theological School, and Union Seminary, and served as Associate Dean and University Professor at Wake Forest. Trained in rhetorical criticism, she was one of the pioneers of second-wave feminist biblical studies, applying feminist questions to the literary and rhetorical analysis of the Hebrew Bible. |
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- Further Reading
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- Clifford, Anne M. "Creation." In Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives (ed. Francis Schüssler Fiorenza and John P. Galvin; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011)
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- Trible, Phyllis. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.
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- --------. Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
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- --------. Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
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- Acknowledgements
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