tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post6750385055589567630..comments2023-06-08T07:32:39.725-05:00Comments on Aristotle's Feminist Subject: Who's your daddy? Aristotle or Moses? And why not ask who your mother is?J. K. Gaylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-42335573130145234652011-10-25T17:10:15.778-05:002011-10-25T17:10:15.778-05:00Thanks for your comment, Mike. The Jesus of Nazar...Thanks for your comment, Mike. The Jesus of Nazareth according to Harold Bloom's reading is not the same Jesus of modern Christianity, that's for sure. I share your interest in understanding (and in understanding the Hebrew Bible by) the hermeneutic of Jesus.J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-9092363848169298082011-10-24T09:50:28.486-05:002011-10-24T09:50:28.486-05:00I want to see the Hebrew Bible through the eyes of...I want to see the Hebrew Bible through the eyes of Jesus of Nazareth. He extracted more meaning and benefit from its words than anyone else I know. <br /><br />Strangely, modern Christianity does not seek to understand the Hebrew Bible by Jesus' hermeneutic, and this may account for modern Christianity's impotence.Mike Gantthttp://blogforthelordjesus.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-90923614848894752162011-10-10T15:59:23.237-05:002011-10-10T15:59:23.237-05:00Thank you, Kristen, for introducing me to Kenneth ...Thank you, Kristen, for introducing me to Kenneth Bailey. I am intrigued by how he sees things such as this:<br /><br />"Thus female activity is used to describe the work of God. In Luke 15:8-10 Jesus likens himself to a woman. The possible dependence of Luke 15 on Psalm 23.... [T]here is only one author who balances together two metaphors/stories, one male and the other female. This is the author of Isaiah 40-55." (<i>Finding the Lost Cultural Keys to Luke 15</i>, page 94)<br /><br />Too often male authors, story-tellers who are men, get caught up in the binary, what Nancy Mairs calls "the fundamental structure of the patriarchy." Such men narrate the way that Aristotle told was best. To posit, on the other hand, women as authors of Biblical Text -- as Bailey and Bloom do -- is to find a refreshingly different way in to reading the text.J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-10425687658554628912011-10-08T14:57:10.900-05:002011-10-08T14:57:10.900-05:00That my epistemology is derived from and descends ...That my epistemology is derived from and descends from others is a truth that I have come to acknowledge. It doesn't make me feel defensive, for some reason. Maybe it's because I have also learned (through websites like this one, and from my college history-of-philosophy classes long ago) that it's possible to examine one's own epistemology and open oneself to other epistemologies. Kenneth Bailey, a Christian scholar and theologian with Middle-Eastern roots, has taught me a lot about reading the Bible through his epistemology. It's like a light that illuminates the beauty of the Gospel, showing colors I had not seen before. Thanks for introducing me to Harold Bloom as well!Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252374623355509404noreply@blogger.com