Marchal, Joseph A. <br/><br/>
The politics of heaven :  women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul / 
Joseph A. Marchal. 
 - Minneapolis, MN :  Fortress Press,  2008. 
 - xiii, 213p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Paul in critical contexts .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Interpretation at the intersection of methods -- Starting points and parameters : feminist and postcolonial analysis Paul, Philippians, and the plan of this Book -- Histories of interpretation and "people's history" in Pauline studies -- Initial inquiries and imperial intersections in interpretation -- Gaps, erasures, and conflicts -- Procedure and precedent -- People's possibilities : subaltern history and problems of perspective -- People's history and Pauline studies -- Back to the biblical : antiquity and feminist, postcolonial approaches -- A hymn within and a heavenly politeuma -- -- A heavenly politeuma and a hymn within rhetorical interactions and Pauline interpretation : a postcolonial Paul -- Does this text encourage travel to distant and inhabited lands and how does it justify itself? -- How does this text construct difference : is there dialogue and liberating interdependence or condemnation of all that is foreign? -- Does this text employ gender and divine representations to construct relationships of subordination and domination? -- Initial connections and conclusions -- The rhetorics of imitation and postcolonial theories of mimicry -- Imitation rhetorics in Paul and in Pauline scholarship -- The promise and perils of postcolonial mimicry -- Post-poning any undue celebrations : criticisms, cautions, and calibrations of postcolonial mimicry -- Resistance, risks, and replications : on the limits of mimicry for a feminist postcolonial analysis -- Women in the contact zone -- Contact zone and transcultural interactions -- Pauline travels and the Philippian contact zone -- Concluding reflections and connections. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780800663001 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008016228 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--N.T.--Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex role--Biblical teaching.<br/>Feminist theology.<br/>Postcolonialism.<br/>Christianity and politics--Biblical teaching.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS2650.52  / .M27 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>227.0608 Mar 2008