The gendered palimpsest : women, writing, and representation in early Christianity / Kim Haines-Eitzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haines-Eitzen, Kim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Women and literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book provides a thorough treatment of the roles of women as authors, scribes, booklenders, and patrons of early Christianity literature, and of the ways in which the representation of female figures was contested in the process of copying early Christian texts.

Contents:

Introduction

Women and books. Women writers, writing for women : authors, scribes, book-lenders, and patrons

Reading, not eating : women readers in late ancient Christian asceticism

Women's literature? : the case of the apocryphal acts of the apostles

Sexual/textual politics. Sinners and saints, silent and submissive? : the textual/sexual transformation of female characters in the New Testament and beyond

"First among all women" : the story of Thecla in textual transmission and iconographic remains

Contesting the ascetic language of Eros : textual fluidity in the apocryphal acts of the apostles

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-991003-0