Distant Voices Drawing Near

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Distant Voices Drawing Near - Holly E. Hearon, Editor
Known for her work in Chinese biblical interpretation, Antoinette Clark Wire was raised in China as the daughter of missionaries and has been in a unique position to work across cultures, bringing into dialogue insights from East and West. Distant Voices Drawing Near is a collection of essays in recognition of Wires scholarly career. Over the past two and a half decades she has contributed significantly to the field of biblical scholarship. The contributors to this volume reflect the scope of Wires career. Many are established scholars and some represent those who are carrying insights from Wires work into the next generation of scholarship. A distinctive feature of the volume is the inclusion of several notable Asian scholars. The volume is divided into four parts, each representing an area to which Wire has made a significant contribution: hermeneutics, setting the text in context, rhetorical studies, and feminist interpretation. These four parts will be unified by a shared focus on the role of women and cross-cultural studies.

Essays and contributors
Introduction: A Biographical Sketch, by Hugh Wire, with Robert Coote and Mary Howland; What She Has Done, Will be Told . . .: Reflections on Writing Feminist History, by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; Phoebe, A Minister in the Early Church, by Sojung Yoon; Listening to the Voices of the Women, by Holly Hearon and Linda Maloney; Why Did Sarah Laugh? by Gina Hens-Piazza; Metaphor and Ambiguity in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis, by Mary Therese DesCamp; Purity and Holiness of Women and Men in 1 Corinthians and the Consequences for Feminist Hermeneutics, by Luise Schottroff; Accusing Whom of What? Hoseas Rhetoric of Promiscuity, by Marvin L. Chaney; The Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13): The Integrity of Identity and Activity, by Herman C. Waetjen; Decolonizing Ourselves as Readers and the Story of the Syro-Phoenician Woman as a Text, by Hisako Kinukawa; Whats the Matter with Nicodemus? A Social Science Perspective on John 3:1-21," by Richard Rohrbaugh; Sacrifice No More, by Joanna Dewey; Engaging Lamentations and The Lament for the South: A Cross-textual Reading, by Archie Chi Chung Lee; Honor and Scripture in the Gospel of Mark, by Robert B. and Mary P. Coote; The Life and Death of the Just One: A Community Schism in Wisdom of Solomon, by Barbara Green, O.P.; AΓNEIA as a Sublime form of ERΩ∑ in the Acts of Paul and Thecla, by Eung Chun Park; and Rendezvous with Thekla and Paul in Ephesos: Excavating the Evidence, by Ruth Ohm Wright.

Holly E. Hearon, Ph.D., is assistant professor of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is the author of The Mary Magdalene Tradition: Witness and Counter-Witness in Early Christian Communities published by Liturgical Press.

Reviews
"The work would be quite useful to students of global studies, biblical interpretation, and feminist thought."
-Encounter

"The contributors engage the topics of Christian origins and the role of women in the biblical world, feminist biblical interpretation, and cross-cultural studies. Included are readings from contextual, cross-textual, and intertextual perspectives."
-Interpretation

"If a diversity of perspectives enriches one's reading of familiar texts, then this collection invites the reader to walk around the Bible, and the women of the Bible, and to see them in many shades of light."
-Magistra

". . . encouraged by her novel and extensive explorations of the long-neglected relationship of women and Christianity, [these essays] highlight and offer interpretations of women figures in the Bible and other ancient literature and art."
-Midwest Book Review

"This collection contributes to the ever-growing symphony of diverse voices that refuse to tell the Christian story in ways that perpetuate a patriarchal version. The authors search tenaciously for historical possibilities, hearing the struggles of women into speech, and creating hope for the future. It is a fitting tribute to Antoinette Clark Wire, who so diligently works to give voice to those who have been silenced or ignored. Ephphatha!"
-Barbara E. Reid, O.P., Ph.D., Professor of New Testament Studies, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL

"This is a fitting and elegant tribute to someone whose interests and scholarship have spanned the fields of interculturality, biblical studies, and feminist interpretation. The essays go from feminist interpretation in the Hebrew Bible to the Apocrypha to New Testament to Christian Apocrypha. Reading these chapters gives the reader not only the sense of Wire's range of interests but that of contemporary biblical interpretation as it tries to do justice to the increasing complexity of the meeting of many worlds."
-Carolyn Osiek, Charles Fischer Catholic Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School

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Pages: 280
Size: 6" x 9"

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