Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-180) and index

1. Women-Church: The Hermeneutical Center of Feminist Biblical Interpretation -- 2. "For the Sake of our Salvation . . .": Biblical Interpretation and the Community of Faith -- 3. The Function of Scripture in the Liberation Struggle: A Critical Feminist Hermeneutics and Liberation Theology -- 4. Discipleship and Patriarchy: Toward a Feminist Evaluative Hermeneutics -- 5. Remembering the Past in Creating the Future: Historical-Critical Scholarship and Feminist-Critical Interpretation -- 6. Toward a Critical-Theological Self-Understanding of Biblical Scholarship

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. -- Publisher description