A Muslim Reading of the Haustafeln of Ephesians 5:21-33 in Dialogue with Quran 4:34: Does the Text Support a Hierarchical Relation between Husbands and Wives?

Lien Iffah Naf’atu  Fina

doi:10.46567/ijt.v5i2.26

Penulis

Lien Iffah Naf’atu Fina Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5657-8563

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46567/ijt.v5i2.26

Kata Kunci:

Haustefeln, Efesus 5:21-33, relasi gender, Q. 4:34, pendekatan kontekstual

Abstrak

Tulisan ini mempertanyakan apakah Efesus 5:21-33 mendukung relasi hierarkis antara suami dan istri sebagai sebuah prinsip yang ideal dan bersifat universal. Untuk menjawab pertanyaan tersebut, sebagai seorang Muslim, saya akan membaca teks ini dalam dialog dengan sebuah ayat al-Qur’an yang serupa, yakni Q. 4:34. Saya mendapati bahwa kedua teks telah melewati sejarah penafsiran yang serupa sejak awal hingga saat ini. Melalui sebuah pembacaan kontekstual, saya melihat bahwa, kendati Efesus 5:21-33, sebagaimana teks Q. 4:34, mengadopsi konsep rumah tangga yang diterima pada konteks masing-masing, yang bersifat patriarkis, penulis menanamkan sebuah relasi baru yang lebih baik terkait relasi antara suami dan istri, yakni relasi yang setara. Secara singkat, teks ini mengajukan “sebuh transformasi yang dimaksudkan” atau sebuah “visi imaginatif.” Upaya menawarkan sebuah cara pembacaan baru atas teks-teks terkait relasi gender merupakan sebuah pergumulan bersama di dalam tradisi kedua agama. Hal itu merupakan sebuah upaya penting untuk membuat Kitab Suci berbicara kepada dunia masa kini sebagai sebuah basis kuat bagi transformasi sosial.

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Biografi Penulis

Lien Iffah Naf’atu Fina, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga

Lien Iffah Naf’atu Fina is a lecturer at the Department of Qur’anic Studies, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She teaches modern-contemporary exegeses of the Qur’an, Qur’anic studies in the Western scholarship, and the living Qur’an. She obtained her Bachelor’s and first Master’s degrees from Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, majoring in Qur’anic Studies. In 2016, she completed a thesis on al-Bāqillānī’s manuscript on miracles and magic for her second Master’s degree, in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, from Hartford Seminary, USA. Her research interests include contemporary Qur’anic hermeneutics, emerging trends in Qur’anic studies, receptions of the Qur’an in everyday Muslim life, the Qur’an and magic, and intertextual study among scriptures. Her work has been published in academic journals, an edited volume, and in conference presentations. She has also translated into Indonesian several English books on the Qur’an and
hermeneutics.

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