Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: For a Biblical (Wo/man) scholar to speak in the Ekklesia feminist struggles against silencing the politics of biblical studies

pt. 1 Theoretical explorations

The ethics of Biblical interpretation: decentering biblical scholarship

Changing the paradigms: the ethos of biblical studies

Shifting the focus: the politics of biblical studies

Challenging the rhetorical half-turn: feminist and rhetorical biblical criticism

pt. 2 Rhetorical practices

Rhetorical situation and historical reconstruction in 1 Corinthians

The Rhetoricity of historical knowledge: Pauline discourse and its contextualizations

Ideology, power, and interpretation: Galatians 3:28

Pauline theology and the politics of meaning

Appendices

The ethics of interpretation: thirteen theses

The rhetorics of interpretation: analytic compass