Feminist Biblical Criticism - 9 views
I too, like Schawn, had limited to no experience with Feminism and Feminist Scholarship before I came to Iliff. In fact, the only exposure I had was in an Introductory Theology Class where we were ...
Postcolonial biblical critics use a multilayered biblical hermeneutic, one that
emphasizes "the demythologization of the biblical authority, the demystification
of the use of the Bible, and the construction of new models of interpretation of
the Bible" (Kwok 1995, 30). Fernando Segovia, a postcolonial New Testament
scholar, for example, argues that there are three different and equally
important worlds that readers of the Bible should investigate and analyze: the
world of the text, the world of modernity, and the world of today (Segovia 2002,
119-132).
