Ephesians (Wisdom Commentary | WC)

by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Publisher:

Liturgical Press

, 2017

Overview

Winner of 1st place Catholic Press Association award for Academic Scripture and 3rd place Association of Catholic Publishers award in Scripture. Ephesians is a “mystery” text that seeks to make known the multifarious Wisdom of God. At its heart is the question of power. In this commentary, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza examines the political understandings of ekklesia and household in Ephesians as well as the roles that such understandings have played in the formation of early Christian communities and that still shape such communities today. By paying close attention to the function of androcentric biblical language within Ephesians, Schüssler Fiorenza engages in a critical feminist emancipatory approach to biblical interpretation that calls for conscientization and change, that is, for the sake of wo/men’s salvation or wellbeing.

Product Details

• Title: Ephesians
• Author: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
• Series: Wisdom Commentary
• Volume: 50
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Ephesians › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780814681992, 9780814681749, 0814681999, 0814681743
• Resource ID: LLS:WISDOMCOMM70EPH
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:54:10Z

About Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity, she has done pioneering work in biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her teaching and research focus on questions of biblical and theological epistemology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and the politics of interpretation, as well as on issues of theological education, radical equality, and democracy. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and has been a founding co-editor of the feminist issues of Concilium. She was elected the first woman president of the Society of Biblical Literature and has served on the editorial boards of major biblical journals and societies. In 2001, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her published work includes In Memory of Her (translated into 14 languages); Bread Not Stone; But She Said; Discipleship of Equals; Revelation: Vision of a Just World; The Power of Naming; Jesus: Miriam’s Child; Sharing Her Word; Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation; Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation; Grenzen Berschreiten: Der theoretische Anspruch feministischer Theologie; and The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire. Her most recent book, Democratizing Biblical Studies Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space, will be published by Westminster John Knox Press.