with Rachael Kohn on Sunday 17/08/2003

Summary:

It’s what Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza of Harvard Divinity School has been doing for more than 30 years. In a rare interview, the Grand Dame of feminist biblical criticism explains why she’s remained at the radical end of biblical interpretation.

Guests on this program:

Elisabeth Sch ¼ssler Fiorenza is renowned for her pioneering work in biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her teaching and research focuses on questions of biblical and theological epistemology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and the politics of interpretation, as well as on issues of theological education, radical equality, and democracy.

She is a co-founder and editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and a co-editor of Concilium. She was elected the first woman president of the Society of Biblical Literature and has served on the editorial boards of major biblical journals and societies. In 2001, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Her published work includes In Memory of Her (translated in 12 languages); Bread Not Stone; But She Said; Discipleship of Equals; Revelation: Vision of a Just World; The Power of Naming; Jesus: Miriam’s Child; Sharing Her Word; and Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation. Her newest book, Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation, was published in November 2001. She is currently Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.

Further information:

Harvard Divinity School http://www.hds.harvard.edu/dpa/faculty/area1/schusslerfiorenza.html

Can “hierarchical religions be redeemed?” Book Review: Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Sharing Her Word (Beacon Press: 1999), published in Sojourners Magazine, 1999.

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Publications:

Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation Author: Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza Publisher: Orbis Books, 2001

Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation Author: Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza Publisher: Continuum, 2001

The Non-Ordination of Women and the Politics of Power Author: Elizabeth Schussler-Fiorenza, Hermann Haring Publisher: Orbis Books, 1999

In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins Author: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 1994

Searching the Scriptures: A Feminist Introduction Author: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 1993

From Crossbow to H-Bomb Author: Bernard Brodie, Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Fawn McKay Brodie Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1973