Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0826463339
A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826466877
Book Description
The eleventh volume in this series examines New Testament Apocryphal texts, including the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Acts of John, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Martyrdom of Perpetua, the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, the Acts of Andrew, the Acts of Thomas, and the Apocalypse of Peter, as well as Joseph and Asenath, the Irish apocrypha, and the Greek novels. In this diverse collection the contributors utilize a variety of approaches to explore topics such as the construction of Christian identity, the Christian martyr, heterodoxy and orthodoxy, conjugal ethics and apostolic homewreckers, trials and temptations, the rhetoric of the body, asceticism, and eroticism.
A Feminist Companion to Luke
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841271743
Book Description
The third volume in this series deals with Lukan themes in feminist perspectives. The fourteeen essays from an international authorship cover a range of issues, including Imperial Masculinity, Mary and Asceticism, Martha in the Kitchen and Reading Luke 15 with Arab Chistian Women. The list of contributors includes Robert Karris, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Brigitte Kahl, Turd Karlsen Seim, Barbara Reid, Teresa Hornsby, Ben Witherington III, Esther DeBoer, Veronica Koperski, Loveday Alexander, Warren Carter, Pamela Thimmes, Carol Schersten Lahurd and Maris-Luisa Rigato. The volume also includes an introduction by the editor, and a bibloigraphy.
Feminist Companion to John
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567461734
Book Description
The second feminist volume volume on Johannine literature includes an Introduction by Amy-Jill Levine; Adele Reinhartz on Women in the Johannine Community: An Exercise in Historical Imagination; Satako Yamaguchi, 'I Am (I Do)' Sayings and Women in Context and Dorothy Lee, Abiding in the Fourth Gospel.Colleen Conway writes on Gender Matters in John; Adeline Fehribach on The Crucifixion in the Fourth Gospel: A Birthing Moment; Deborah Sawyer on Water and Blood: Birthing Images in John's Gospel; Harold Attridge on Don't Be Touching Me: Recent Feminist Scholarship on Mary Magdalene; and Jane Schaberg, Thinking Back through the Magdalene.
Feminist Companion to Matthew
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2001-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1841272116
Book Description
Conjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this volume ..... presents ground-breaking insights on the Gospel of Matthew...... (from back cover)
Feminist Companion to Paul
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826463363
Book Description
The seventh volume of this Companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to be genuiinely from the Apostle. These are of particular importance in showing how Paul's authority was exploited in the Early Church, and the topics addressed often deal with Christian discipline and hierarchy. Hence there is a particularly strong feminist agenda to be explored here.The Pastoral Epistles, Ephesians and Colossians are prominent among the writings addressed in this sparkling collection, and the authors include David Scholer, Luise Schottroff, Bonnie Thurston, Lilian Portefaix, Sara Winter and Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger.
Feminist Companion to John
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826462553
Book Description
V. 2: ....studies...includes some that seek to locate the cumulative effect of all the stories concerning women, these lead to general suggestions concerning both the evangelist's view of gender and the role of women in the Johannine community. Also Christological language and theological categories in search for an alternative to the androcentrism and exclusivity theologians typically associate with the Fourth Gospel.Highlights of spcific scenes e.g. crucifixion; appearance to Mary Magdalene; ato interrogate the function of feminine imagery, the implications of particularly troublesome verses & the cultural appropriations of the narratives. .... (from back cover)
A Feminist Companion to the Acts of the Apostles
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826462527
Book Description
In this diverse collection of writings on the Acts of the Apostles, the contributors use a variety of approaches to address issues including ethnicity and class, economic and social status, construction of masculinity, and literary influences both behindand in front of the text.
A Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebews
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826466822
Book Description
The eighth volume in this series continues the exploration of women's representations and roles, constructions of gender, and attitudes toward sexuality in the early church. Jim Aageson, Judith Applegate, Warren Carter, Pamela Eisenbaum, Ruth Hoppin, Luke Timothy Johnson, Catherine Clark Kroeger, Magda Missett van de Weg, John Elliott, Betsy Bauman-Martin, and Timothy Cargal tackle a variety of complex issues involving slavery, prostitution, widows, church leadership, suffering, women's agency, and Evangelical responses to the so-called "texts of terror". This volume advances discussion on these often overlooked and misunderstood general letters.
A Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : T&T Clark
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Book Description
In its twelth volume this text examines a number of Patristic texts and early Christian documents from a feminist perspective.
