Women and knowledge in early Christianity / edited by Ulla Tervahauta, Ivan Miroshnikov, Outi Lehtipuu, Ismo Dunderberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tervahauta, Ulla, editor.

Series:

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 144.

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Women in Christianity.

History.

Gnosticism.

Women in the Bible.

Women.

Knowledge, Theory of--History.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Women in Christianity--Early church.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

Women and knowledge are interconnected in several ways in late ancient and early Christian discourses, not least because wisdom (Sophia) and spiritual knowledge (Gnosis) were frequently personified as female entities. Ancient texts deal with idealized women and use feminine imagery to describe the divine but they also debate women?s access to and capacity of gaining knowledge. Combining rhetorical analysis with social historical approaches, the contributions cover a wide array of source materials, drawing special attention to the so-called Gnostic texts. The fourteen essays, written by prominent experts of ancient Christianity, are dedicated to Professor Antti Marjanen (University of Helsinki).

Contents:

Women and knowledge in early Christianity: an introduction / Outi Lehtipuu and Ismo Dunderberg

Women and independent religious specialists in second-century Rome / Nicola Denzey Lewis

"She destroyed multitudes" : Marcellina's group in Rome / H. Gregory Snyder

Some remarks on literate women from Roman Egypt / Erja Salmenkivi

Women, angels, and dangerous knowledge: the myth of the watchers in the Apocryphon of John and its monastic manuscript-context / Christian H. Bull

Jezebel in Jewish and Christian tradition / Tuomas Rasimus

Mary and the other female characters in the Protevangelium of James / Petri Luomanen

What happened to Mary? : women named Mary in the Meadow of John Moschus / Ulla Tervahauta

"But women are not worthy of life" : protology and misogyny in Gospel of Thomas saying 114 / Ivan Miroshnikov

"Women" and "heresy" in patristic discourses and modern studies / Silke Petersen

Astrological determinism, free will, and desire according to Thecla (St. Methodius, Symposium 8.15-16) / Dylan M. Burns

Monastic exegesis and the female soul in the Exegesis on the soul / Hugo Lundhaug

Life, knowledge and language in classic Gnostic literature: reconsidering the role of the female spiritual principle and epinoia / Tilde Bak Halvgaard

"Wisdom, our innocent sister" : reflections on a mytheme / Michael A. Williams

The virgin that became male : feminine principles in Platonic and Gnostic texts / John D. Turner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Women and knowledge in early Christianity

ISBN:

9789004355439

900435543X

OCLC:

1006810044