Luise Schottroff

Bieler and Schottroff bring together the best of contemporary scholarship on ritual theory and practice, Eucharistic origins, the Eucharist and eschatology, the Eucharist and world hunger, the global economy, and the dynamics of torture in a dramatic new vision of the transformative power of the Eucharist for our world. It includes reflection questions that lead readers into the issues raised in each chapter.

English summary: During her last year of life, Luise Schottroff (1934-2015) worked on a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, and was able to finish chapters 1-4. These are understood not only as a consciously designed introduction to the Gospel of Matthew but also as an overture for the entire New Testament. She reads the texts in a surprisingly new way and often breaks with previous consensus, both scientific-exegetic and dogmatic. In order to meet the challenges of this interpretation, the editors provide each important section with a meta-commentary that places it within its theological and exegetical context and opens up a critical discussion. German description: Luise Schottroff (1934-2015) hat in ihrem letzten Lebensjahr an der Kommentierung des Matthausevangeliums gearbeitet, Kapitel 1-4 konnte sie abschliessen. Diese werden nicht nur als bewusst gestaltete Einleitung ins Matthausevangelium sondern zugleich als Ouverture fur das gesamte Neue Testament verstanden. Sie liest die Texte uberraschend neu und bricht vielfach mit bisherigen Konsensen, wissenschaftlich-exegetischen wie dogmatischen. Um den Herausforderungen dieser Auslegung gerecht zu werden, wird - verantwortet vom Heidelberger Arbeitskreis fur sozialgeschichtliche Bibelauslegung - jedem wichtigen Abschnitt ein Meta-Kommentar zur Seite gestellt, der eine Einordnung in die Theologie- und Auslegungsgeschichte vollzieht und eine kritische Diskussion beginnt.

In this startling work, Luise Schottroff proposes an alternative reading of Jesus' parables. Her work decries the traditional allegorizing of Jesus' stories, with their easy identification of God as one of the characters in the stories. This work argues that the parables are fictional stories that describe the social realities and structures of an oppressive situation. It describes how they present an alternative to the social structures of the Roman Empire. It provides a critique of the traditional readings of the parables, written by a leading New Testament scholar.

Hat Jesus seine Gleichnisse wirklich so gemeint, wie die kirchliche Tradition sie versteht? Hat er Gott z.B. gleichgesetzt mit einem kleinlichen König, der seine Untertanen wegen Nichtigkeiten tötet? Luise Schottroff deckt den sozialgeschichtlichen Kontext der Gleichnisse Jesu auf. Sie zeigt, wie das herkömmliche Verständnis der Bildreden Jesu in die Irre führt und macht sichtbar, welch befreiende Botschaft Jesu Lehre tatsächlich enthält, wenn sie wieder als das verstanden wird, was sie ursprünglich war: eine im Gespräch vorgetragene Botschaft, die mit den Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörern rechnete und um die wirklichen Lebensverhältnisse wusste. Ein erstaunliches, spannendes und verblüffendes Buch!

In the hundred years since The Women's Bible, giant strides have been made in feminist interpretation of the Bible. Now comes the first comprehensive overview of the whole field. The authors systematically recount those efforts to describe the story of women in both testaments, to uncover tendencies not supportive of women, and to describe biblical traditions that empower women. The book unfolds in three parts: Historical, Hermeneutical, and Methodological Foundations Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of the History of Israel Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Early Christianity

Lydia's Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff's work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.

This important collection draws together fascinating recent studies of aspects of the New Testament of special interest to women by Louise Schottroff, a leading European scholar. These essays, translated for the first time, will deepen feminist scholarship in the English-speaking world. There are insightful depictions of the Virgin Mary, "the woman who loved much," Mary Magdalene, and the women at Jesus' grave. Schottoff also studies Paul and women in the first Christian communities of the Roman empire. Such fresh interpretations will be valuable to students at all levels as well as to scholars and interested lay readers.The Gender and the Biblical Tradition series brings to a wide audience important new discoveries concerning women and the Bible, ancient Israel, and early Christianity. The books explore the role of sexuality within the biblical tradition and document the continuing influence of biblical treatments of gender on subsequent life and thought.