Bread Not Stone

Download or read book Bread Not Stone written by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1995-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This feminist classic explores the ways in which women can read the Christian Bible with full understanding of both its oppressive and its liberating functions. In the substantial new Afterword to this edition, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza situates Bread Not Stone in relation to mainstream Biblical scholarship, Catholic and Protestant theologies, liberation theologies, and nineteenth-century feminist writings on the Bible.