The Politics of Heaven: Women, Gender, and Empire in the Study of Paul

by Joseph A. Marchal

Book Overview

In this provocative study, Joseph A. Marchal argues that biblical interpretation, but most especially Pauline studies, must engage the full range of critical challenges brought by feminist studies, postcolonial studies, and Roman imperial studies. A feminist, postcolonial analysis requires negotiating the gaps, overlaps, and tensions between these three "strands" by adopting an explicitly multi-axial focus and an interdisciplinary methodology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451488041
• ISBN13: 9781451488043
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"