The Politics of Heaven <subTitle>Women, Gender, and Empire in the Study of Paul</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Marchal, Joseph A.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">7:5</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Fortress Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>213tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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. Using Philippians as a test case, the analysis covers issues of both ancient and contemporary import: from imitation and authority to travel and contact. As a result, Marchal provides strikingly new perspectives on Paul's letters and fresh challenges to the paradigms of Pauline interpretation.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Joseph A. Marchal</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Sex -- Biblical teaching</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Feminist theology</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Postcolonialism</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Christianity and politics</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">227.06082</classification> <classification authority="ddc">M315-J83</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780800663001</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14193/po.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14193/po.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071334.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>