The power of the word : Scripture and the rhetoric of empire / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280).

The rhetoric of empire : introduction -- Empire studies as a new field in biblical studies -- A radical democratic ethos -- A critical political feminist hermeneutics -- Situating the argument of this book -- The power of Scripture and the rhetoric of empire -- Empire as the context of Scripture today -- Reshaping biblical the*logical studies -- Empire and ekklēsia -- A radical democratic imagination : the ekklēsia of wo/men -- Debating Paul in the ekklēsia of wo/men -- Toward a critical feminist decolonizing interpretation -- Postcolonial criticism and feminist criticism -- A decolonizing interpretation of the book of Revelation -- Empire and the rhetoric of subordination -- The ethos of kyriarchy : intersecting discourses of domination -- A detoxifying/decolonizing reading of 1 Peter -- The rhetoric of empire and G*d-talk : decolonizing the divine -- Feminist critique of androcentric G*d language -- Kyriocentric G*d language : the language of empire -- Transforming biblical studies -- The discipline of biblical studies -- Transforming biblical studies.