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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
2014 International Meeting

Vienna, Austria

Meeting Begins: 7/6/2014
Meeting Ends: 7/10/2014
8-34a

Biblical Criticism and Cultural Studies

7/08/2014
2:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Room: HS 28 - Hauptgebäude
Theme: Materialist Biblical Criticism: Figures and Movements
Fernando Segovia, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Steven Friesen, University of Texas at Austin
The Economics of the New Testament Interpretation: Invisible Hands at Work (30 min)
Brigitte Kahl, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Reading Mark with Marx? Fernando Belo Revisited 40 Years After (30 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Break (30 min)

Luis Menendez-Antuna, Vanderbilt University
A Revelation against Empire: A Material Reading of Liberationist Approaches to the Apocalypse of John (30 min)

Susanne Scholz, Southern Methodist University
Materializing German Old Testament Exegesis: The Social Historical Method in the Work of Willy Schottroff (30 min)
Discussion (15 min)

"Feminist Commentary upon Feminist Commentary.
A Report from the Feminist Biblical Trenches"

Edited by Susanne Scholz

in: lectio difficilior: European Electronic Journal for Feminist Exegesis 1 (2014): http://www.lectio.unibe.ch/14_1/scholz_susanne_feminist_commentary_upon_feminist_commentary.html

Just published this week of June 23, 2014!!

The actual article in in English; the abstract is in German:

"Für das Treffen der nordamerikanischen Sektion der ESWTR im November 2013 wurden die Podiumsteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer gebeten, die englische Übersetzung des Kompendium: Feministische Bibelauslegung (engl. Feminist Biblical Interpretation: A Compendium of Critical Commentary on the Books oft he Bible and Related Literature) zu kommentieren, die im Jahr 2012 erschienen ist. In diesem Artikel werden nun ein Teil dieser Kommentare und die damit einhergehenden Diskussionen sowie kritische Anfragen an das Kompendium schriftlich zugänglich gemacht. Die Beiträge der folgenden Autorinnen und Autoren sind hier veröffentlicht: Robert Wafawanaka, Martin Rumscheidt, Helen Leneman, Deborah Rooke, Dora R. Mbuwayesango, Johanna Erzberger und Marie-Theres Wacker."

Thursday, August 1, 2013

ESWTR Colloquy at the Annual Meeting of the AAR in November 2013

A Compendium of Critical Commentary on the Books of the Bible and Related Literature (Eerdmans, 2012)

The North American Chapter of the European Society of Women in Theological Research (NAESWTR) is proud to sponsor yet another Colloquy at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in November 2013 (www.aarweb.com)

Here are the details:

P24-300

European Society of Women in Theological Research

Theme: Colloquy

Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California, Presiding

Sunday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM (November 24, 2013)

Room Assignments Available Only to Members. Login here and then click the Program Book link at the top of the page to return.

Everyone is welcome to this panel discussion based on the translated feminist Bible commentary, edited by Luise Schottroff and Marie-Theres Wacker, entitled Feminist Biblical Interpretation: A Compendium of Critical Commentary on the Books of the Bible and Related Literature (Eerdmans, 2012). For additional information, please contact Susanne Scholz at sscholz@smu.edu.

Panelists:

Caroline Vander Stichele, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Deborah Rooke, University of Oxford

Helen Leneman, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Johanna Erzberger, Institut Catholique de Paris

Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango, Hood Theological Seminary

Responding:

Marie-Theres Wacker, University of Münster

God Loves Diversity and Justice

Just to make sure that you all know about this most recent book, I am adding a little advertisement about it.

It's a fun book with a serious theological theme and I am so delighted to have gathered some of my very wonderful colleagues in this volume. They discuss the title from their various perspectives and it is one unbelievably interesting, illuminating, and challenging discussion.

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Here is the beautiful cover image with the art from Dyana Jean:

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Here is an additional description of the book:

"Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the statement that declares: “God loves diversity and justice.” The multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the eleven contributors and two respondents deepen the conversation. It considers questions such as: Do we affirm or challenge this theological statement? Do we concentrate on “God” in our response or do we interrogate what diversity and justice mean in light of God’s love for diversity and justice? Alternatively, do we prefer to ponder the verb, to love, and consider what it might mean for society if people really believed in a divinity loving diversity and justice? Of course, there are no easy and simple answers whether we consult the Sikh scriptures, the Bible, the Qur’an, the movies, the Declaration of Human Rights, or the transgender movement, but the effort is worthwhile. The result is a serious historical, literary, cultural, and religious discourse that fends against intellectually rigid thought and simplistic belief systems across the religious spectrum. In our world in which so much military unrest and violence, economic inequities, and religious strife prevail, such a conversation nurtures theological, ethical, and political possibilities of inclusion and justice."

Edited by Susanne Scholz
Contributions by Pat Davis; Maria A. Dixon; Marc H. Ellis; Victoria Fontan; Serge Frolov; Susanne Johnson; Gordene MacKenzie; Pamela J. Milne; Qudsia Mirza; Nancy Nangeroni; Joerg Rieger; Isam M. Shihada; Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh and Sze-kar Wan

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Here is the Table of Contents:

Introduction: From Progressive Theological Discourse to Changing the World
Susanne Scholz

PART I. ABOUT GOD
Chapter 1: God Is Diversity and Justice: A Feminist Sikh Perspective
Nikky-Guninder K. Singh
Chapter 2: As Long As You Are Doing Something: A Secular Feminist Perspective from Canada
Pamela J. Milne
Chapter 3: I AM, Who Loves the Prophets, Loves You: Meditations on the Progressive/Prophetic at the End of Jewish History
Marc H. Ellis
PART II. ABOUT LOVE
Chapter 4: A World without Tags: A Progressive Palestinian Muslim Scholar Speaks
Isam Shihada
Chapter 5: Class Matters in an Age of Empire: A White Feminist Working-Class American Speaks
Susanne Johnson
PART III. ABOUT DIVERSITY
Chapter 6: Celebrating Diversity Is Not What It’s All About: A Progressive White Male German-American Theologian Speaks
Joerg Rieger
Chapter 7: Does God Really Love Diversity? Biblical Counter-Examples from a Chinese-American Perspective
Sze-Kar Wan
PART IV. ABOUT JUSTICE
Chapter 8: Diversity, Justice, and the Bible for Grown-Ups: A Jewish Russian-Israeli-American Hebrew Bible Scholar Speaks
Serge Frolov
Chapter 9: The Exiled Native: The Paradox of the Black Scholar
Maria Dixon
Chapter 10: Justice Is at the Core: The Law, Justice, and Gender Equality in Islamic Feminism
Qudsia Mirza
Chapter 11: Transgender Spirituality: Finding Justice through Activism and Love
Gordene McKenzie and Nancy Nangeroni
PART V. TWO RESPONSES
Chapter 12: Reflections on “God Loves Diversity and Justice”: A (Modern) Human Rights Perspective
Pat Davis
Chapter 13: Should God Remain? A Response from the Perspective of Peace and Conflict Studies
Victoria Fontan

Fourteen scholars from a diversity of backgrounds, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh, white, African-American, Asian, believers and non-believers, struggle with this affirmation about God, love, diversity and justice and all agree that together we must work for a world that affirms diversity with justice. A book well worth pondering.
— Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont School of Theology and Graduate University

The title of this collection of provocative essays makes a bold statement, which most of the authors support with arguments from religious texts and skillful critical analysis, while others dispute or regard as beside the point. An underlying question here is the role religion plays in upholding justice and celebrating diversity, toward healing the wounds of our fragmented and ailing global community. Religious believer or not, the reader is challenged to think, and to take a stand for oneself.
— Ruben L.F. Habito, Southern Methodist University and author of Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World (2006)