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In this book, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza continues her exploration of a radical democratic ethos in graduate biblical education. She argues that it is necessary to reframe the field of biblical studies and replace the competitive teaching models prevalent in graduate programs with an emancipatory, radical democratic pedagogical model that fosters collaboration, participation, and critical engagement. To achieve constructive engagement with the differences of social location and diversity of perspectives that exist both in the Bible and in our contexts, we must become aware of the pitfalls of one-dimensional thinking that seeks to use the Bible to find definite answers and to exclude different understandings. Schüssler Fiorenza addresses such questions as, What are the educational practices and procedures that are advocated by traditional educational models and how can they be changed? What kind of educational and communicative practices do biblical studies need to develop in order to fashion an emancipatory democratizing rhetorical space and a forum of many voices? To envision, articulate, debate, and practice a radical democratic ethos of biblical studies, she identifies emerging didactic models that can foster such a radical democratic style of learning. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Radical Democratic Self-Understanding of Biblical Studies
Contextualizing Arguments for a Radical Democratic Educational Space
Toward a Radical Democratic Pedagogy of Biblical Studies

ch. 1 The Rhetorical Space of Graduate Biblical Studies
Charting the Problem
The Need to Transform the Discourses of Biblical Studies
Proposals for Re-Visioning Biblical Studies
Problematizing the Dualistic-Domain Construction of the Field of Biblical Studies

ch. 2 A Republic of Many Voices: Paradigms of Biblical Studies
Paradigm Criticism
Redescribing and Renaming the Four Paradigms of Biblical Studies
Conclusion

ch. 3 Fashioning a Radical Democratic Discourse
Delineating the Fourth Emancipatory Paradigm
Discursive Struggles within the Fourth Paradigm: From Margin to Postcolonialism
Toward a Shared Analytic: Intersectional Analysis of Kyriarchy
A Pedagogical Model of Agency and Conscientization

ch. 4 Changing Biblical Studies: Toward a Radical Democratic Pedagogy and Ethos
Transforming Malestream Pedagogical Models
Toward a Radical Democratic Emancipatory Pedagogy
Transforming the Didactic Triangle
Toward a Radical Democratic Emancipatory Ethos-Space
Instead of a Conclusion
Metalogue: From Theory to Practice
Creating a Radical Democratic Space: Forum
Creating a Radical Democratic Space: Seminar
A Forum of Many Voices / A Kaleidoscope of Personal Reflections

Index