http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/ en-us 2003-11-19T18:42:48-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000968.html In this essay Schüssler Fiorenza suggests all objective, value-free, biblical interpretation is in fact male interpretation. It is interpretation by a certain group for that same group. Scholars who want biblical interpretation to be ethical must be good biblical scholars but they must also, engage biblical scholarship in a hermeneutic-evaluative discursive practice exploring the power/knowledge relation inscribed in contemporary biblical discourse and in the biblical texts themselves. Schüssler Fiorenza creates a detailed analytic compass through which she becomes more confident about being able to interpret the biblical text without creating damaging readings. To this end she is deeply invested in... Schussler Fiorenza Trevor 2003-11-19T18:42:48-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000962.html "Do we ask and teach ... in a disciplined way how our scholarship (interpretation) is conditioned by its social location and how it serves political functions" In this excerpt from her article Schussler Fiorenza argues that it is crucial - if we are to be ethical - that we be aware of the social location from in which we interpret and for which we interpret. Can good interpretation be apolitical? Schussler Fiorenza seems to answer negatively. But the idea that the bible must be interpreted "politically" would not go over particuarly well in any church that I've ever attended. (Continued... Schussler Fiorenza Trevor 2003-11-17T23:54:12-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000911.html First, I'm very glad we've moved on from Childs, as although I'm old enough to remember the period of which he was writing, it seems ever so distant to me now! Second, I have a major problem understanding Schussler Fiorenza, as she writes in that special version of English that is as far as I know exclusive to american academics. I could use a course in the ethics of interpreting academic American English... But anyway, I do suspect she is addressing the current world in which I live. What nobody seems to have asked about yet though is the assumptions... Schussler Fiorenza simons 2003-11-01T11:22:21-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000904.html There are many first questions we might want to ask of this text. In the ten years since it has been written have we observed more rhetorical or political interpretation? Is the rhetorical-political turn warranted? Is feminism the best place to locate this turn? In response to Childs and as a bit of a segue, one thing we might want to reflect on is the way in which both Biblical Theology as Childs considers it, and Ethics of Biblical Interpretation as Schussler Fiorenza consider it, succeed as second order discourses on the Bible. These are the two substantial discourses about... Schussler Fiorenza Trevor 2003-10-30T10:07:06-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000898.html AKMA 2003-10-27T15:02:01-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000808.html What I appreciated most about Child’s thesis was the way he reintroduced faith into the Biblical Theology equation. His thesis, that “the canon…is the most appropriate context from which to do Biblical Theology” rests heavily on premises that cannot be logically demonstrated and must therefore be appropriated on the basis of the interpreter’s faith. He writes in chapter six, “The status of canonicity is not an objectively demonstrable claim but a statement of Christian belief,” in other words, a proclamation of faith in the God who speaks through the canon. Later in the same chapter, he opines, “The claim for... DanielR 2003-10-01T09:47:17-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000806.html I decided to expose my ignorance in a new post rather than a comment. My initial thoughts (supported by not enough reading and reflection) are As an Englishman I was interested in the different paths taken by the US from Europe. This meant a lot of the "history" was unfamiliar to me and I have been trying to relate it to my own church experience (which is also really from after Child's book). I was particularly interested to read of the hope of the Biblical Theology Movement to move beyond the divides between fundamentalism and liberalism - here in the... Dave W 2003-09-30T19:42:03-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000799.html AKMA 2003-09-28T16:19:12-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000787.html AKMA 2003-09-24T22:40:29-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000747.html It looks as though religion-online is indeed up again, though I’m downloading and saving furiously to make sure we’re covered in case of outage. For our first shared readings, we direct your attention to Brevard Childs’s Biblical Theology in Crisis, particularly Parts One and Two (and of those, we’ll be particuarly interested in the shape of the “crisis” that Childs describes, and the terms in which he sees a way out — so Chapters Two to Six will give the heart of the matter for our purposes). Childs’s contemporary Bernhard Anderson wrote a complementary article for Theology Today entitled, “The... AKMA 2003-09-15T15:20:17-06:00 http://disseminary.org/seminar/ethbible/archives/000714.html This will be the main page on which our discussions of the ethics of interperting the Bible take place. I’m writing this entry both to set a friendly tone of greeting, and to test-drive the page layout. Let’s see how this works.... AKMA 2003-09-08T15:10:46-06:00