TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marchal,Joseph A.
TI  - The Politics of Heaven: women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul 
T2  - Paul in critical contexts
SN  - 9780800663001 (alk. paper)
U1  - 227.06082 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Epistles of Paul
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Feminist theology
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Christianity and politics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-204) and index; Introduction : interpretation at the intersection of approaches; Context; Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis; Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this book --; Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies; Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation; (Introduction; Gaps, erasures, and conflicts; Procedure and precedent); People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective; (People's history and Pauline studies; Genealogies, genders, gaps, and geopolitics in people's history; Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches) --; A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma; Introduction; A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within; Rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul?; Initial connections and conclusions --; The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry; Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship; The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry; Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry; Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist, postcolonial analysis --; Women in the contact zone; Contact zone and transcultural interactions; Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone; Euodia and Syntyche : reconstructing co-workers in the contact zone --; Concluding reflections and connections; Reviewing the present project; Elaborating further possibilities
N2  - Was Paul an opponent of imperialism or a participant in the patriarchal social codes of his day? Joseph A. Marchal moves beyond this too-simple dichotomy to examine the language of power and obedience, ethnicity, and gender in Paul's letters
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008016228.html
ER  -