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Problematic
Passages: The Challenge of Interpretation
- Introduction
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- There are passages in revealed scriptures which are offensive
and problematic when viewed from our cultural vantage point. Whether
we look at the advocacy and acceptance of slavery (Jesus accepted
it as a matter of course), the disregard or outright negative
portrait of women, or the toleration and even the hope for violence,
scripture presents us with many passages that are difficult to
interpret today. Some people consider scripture so toxic that
they reject it entirely. If scriptures canonized so long in the
past are to remain viable, how can we read these passages? How
do we understand scripture to be inspired? How do we read and
interpret so as to discern lessons of spiritual value in such
texts?
- Notes
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- Reading
- Scripture: Judges 11; 19; 1 Corinthians 11:3-16 and
14:33-35; Ephesians 5:22-24*; Colossians 3:18*; 1 Timothy
2:11-15; Titus 2:4-5*; 1 Peter 3:1-6* (* = in the Lectionary)
- Secondary: Phyllis Trible, "An Unnamed Woman:
The Extravagance of Violence," in Texts of Terror:
Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Overtures
to Biblical Theology; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984) 65-91; Latin American, African and Asian perspectives on Isaiah 52:13-53:12 (from Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible [ed. Priscilla Pope-Levison and John R. Levison; Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1999] 93-113
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- Notes
- Under construction.
- Bibliography
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- Feminist Criticism
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Daly, Mary. "The Women’s Movement: An Exodus Community."
Religious Education 67 (1972) 27-33; reprinted with an
introduction in Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook
of Women in Christian Thought (rev. ed.; ed. Elizabeth A.
Clark and Herbert Richardson; New York: HarperCollins, 1996) 309-18.
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Hilkert, Mary Catherine. "Trust the Text or Preach the Gospel?"
In Naming Grace: Preaching and the Sacramental Imagination
(New York: Continuum, 1997), 71-88, 209-214.
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Kraemer, Ross Shepard and Mary Rose D’Angelo, eds. Women and
Christian Origins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Meyers, Carol, Toni Craven and Ross Shepard Kraemer, eds. Women
in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew
Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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Newsom, Carol A. and Sharon H. Ringe, eds. The Women’s Bible
Commentary. London/Louisville: SPCK/Westminster/John Knox,
1992.
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Schüssler-Fiorenza, Elisabeth. In Memory of Her: A Feminist
Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. New York:
Crossroad, 1983.
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- Slavery
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- Briggs, Sheila. "Paul on Bondage and Greedom in Imperial Roman Society." In
Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation. Essays
in Honor of Krister Stendahl (ed. Richard A. Horsley;
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000).
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- Callahan, Dwight Allen. "Paul, Ekklesia, and Emancipation in Corinth: A Coda on Liberation Theology." In Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation. Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl (ed. Richard A. Horsley; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000).
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