Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story - Softcover

Gunn, David M.; Fewell, Danna Nolan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687140420 ISBN 13: 9780687140428

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 1992

Synopsis

Reading Scripture anew, the authors contend, is each time an exercise of power.  It is always invested in ideology, whether spoken or unspoken.  By adopting the viewpoints of marginalized women, and by examining the motivations of the male characters as they deploy power, Fewell and Gunn seek an approach to biblical interpretation that promises to liberate women and men from, rather than reinforce, religious ideologies of male dominance.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book explores Genesis-Kings, the first great story in the Bible, stretching from creation through the promise to Abraham, the formation of Israel, the giving of the Law, the taking of the promised land, and the nation's eventual exile. Given the gender divide that Genesis-Kings constructs, the authors read this great story of promise wondering what it might look like to the excluded people--the aliens, the children, and particularly the women who are deemed to stand on the 'other' side of the divide,

About the Author:

Department of Religion, Texas Christian University

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0687140420
• ISBN 13: 9780687140428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212