Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 20:42:44 -0500
From: Tom Craig <tcraig-AT-spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
Subject: Re: Suggested readings on FF and feminist biblical interpretation


Charlotte, Kathy, and Diane,
    Thanks for the reading recommendations and the suggestion on
teaching Kristeva. Charlotte, I am not familiar with Pardes' work. Can
you tell me something more about it? Diane, do you have the complete
references for Learner's and Ranke-Heinemann's work?
     We are in the process of completing our Canadian Winter semester
and then we will update/reform our Body and the Bible Syllabus. The
first time we taught the course last summer I included readings from
Gottwald and Horsley's _The Bible and Liberation_. Most of those
readings will now be replaced by readings from _The Feminist Companion
to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods, and Strategies_. Having been
trained in biblical studies by prominent, hard-lined
"historical-critical" scholars (one of whom once described himself to me
as "a dyed-in-the-wool historical critic," another who ended our only
required core course with a categorical mention of "perspectivist"
approaches to the Bible like "feminism"), I am only very slowly
de-constructing/reforming/re-imagining otherwise. Moving back to
biblical studies through phenomenology, semiotics, and feminist theory
(a long, embodied journey home--but that's another story) has been
frustrating but FF continues to intrigue and implode my past
training--along with providing some hopeful glimpses of emancipatory
potentiality along the way.
  Our Spring Evening semester begins on May 5th. I will send (and
thereby "fork ova") our revised syllabus to the FF archives some time
before then.
    Tom
--
                    DON'T SLOWLY TURN AND WALK AWAY.
                              ~~~~~~ Break the silence ~~~~~~.
                    Face the fear.
                    Stop the terror.
                    Speak the truth.
                    Embrace alterity.
                                    COUNTER HEGEMONY

Tom Craig, Ph.D
     Email:    aporia-AT-oursquare.com
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Visiting  Scholar in the Women's Studies Program (1997-98)
     Brock University. St. Catharines, Ontario. L2S 3A1
     Canada
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