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- Title: Whose Text Is It?
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 189 KB
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It was exactly twenty years ago that Professor Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza gave her landmark presidential address entitled "The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: Decentering Biblical Scholarship." (1) There she argued for the need for biblical scholarship to "continue its descriptive-analytic work ... for understanding of ancient texts and their historical location" while also "exploring the power/knowledge relations inscribed in contemporary biblical discourse and in the biblical texts themselves." In such an approach, the work of those "traditionally absent from the exegetical enterprise would not remain peripheral or non-existent for biblical scholarship," but "could become central to the scholarly discourse of the discipline." (2) My address to you this evening is intended to further this call for a shift in our self-understanding of our scholarly work. We have made progress in the past twenty years, but work remains to be done. My particular focus was provoked in a session I attended at the SBL annual meeting two years ago. In introducing a session on feminism and postcolonialism, a moderator reported that she had been asked why the session had been organized around a book on African women's voices published a few years earlier (i.e., not hot off the press), to which her response had been "because nobody seems to be listening." The authors experienced their claim to ownership of the text, at least within the guild, as being discounted or overridden. Attempting to listen to global feminist voices within biblical studies has been a key theme of my own work, but developing viable modes of engagement between white Euro-Atlantic feminists and global feminism remains a challenge. That challenge, however, is but one component of the much larger question of how we all as scholars engage one another over a wide range of dividing lines, since we all claim texts as our own through our acts of interpretation.
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