Gender in the rhetoric of Jesus : women in q / Sara Parks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parks, Sara, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Historicity.

Jesus Christ.

Historicity of Jesus Christ.

Bible. Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Gospels.

Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism).

Physical Description:

ix, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, [2019]

Summary:

"Examining the hypothetical earliest layer of Jesus' sayings known as Q, Sara Parks argues that Jesus deliberately crafted parabolic teachings regarding the basileia of God to appeal to both male and female adherents. For a century after Q, vestiges of gender-paired teachings popped up in multiple independent texts related to Jesus, from Mark to Paul to the Synoptics and John-making it more likely that this inclusion of women originated with Jesus himself. In this book, Parks engages the divided scholarship on the meaning of gendered pairs for an evaluation of the gender politics of Q, arguing that even though Q's peculiar rhetoric of gender equality was an innovation, it was also a product of its time, as evidenced in other contemporaneous texts which struggled with ambiguous equalities, from Philo to Musonius Rufus to Joseph and Aseneth. In addition, she shows that Jesus' rhetoric of gender, as remembered in Q constitutes some of the earliest evidence for the study of first-century Jewish women, and women in Christian origins"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Parks, Sara. Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus.

ISBN:

9781978701984

1978701985

OCLC:

1108514096