Her Master's Tools?: Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-critical DiscourseCaroline Vander Stichele, Todd C. Penner |
Contents
Tandoori Reindeer and the Limitations of Historical Criticism | 47 |
Imagination as a Resource in | 71 |
Postcolonialism and the Practice of History | 93 |
The Rhetorical FullTurn in Biblical Interpretation | 109 |
Engaging the DialogueDance between | 129 |
Following Orders Given by Old Joshua | 145 |
What Have I to Do with Them? | 159 |
Their Hermeneutics Was Strange Ours Is a Necessity | 179 |
Theory | 211 |
On the Absence of Feminist Criticism | 233 |
Scribal Blunder or Textual Plunder? Codex Bezae Textual | 253 |
Paul and the Rhetoric of Gender | 287 |
Why Cant the Heavenly Miss Jerusalem Just Shut | 311 |
Babies and Bathwater on the Road | 333 |
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Contributors | 389 |
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Page 9 - We want historians to confirm our belief that the present rests upon profound intentions and immutable necessities. But the true historical sense confirms our existence among countless lost events, without a landmark or a point of reference.