Women and marriage in Paul and his early interpreters / Gillian Beattie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beattie, Gillian, author.

Series:

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 296.

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 296

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Epistles of Paul--Theology.

Bible.

Nag Hammadi codices.

Marriage--Biblical teaching.

Marriage.

Marriage--Religious aspects--History of doctrines.

Women--Biblical teaching.

Women.

Women--Religious aspects--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Beattie undertakes a comparative survey of the treatment of women and marriage in three different kinds of text: an authentic Pauline letter (namely 1 Corinthians); the deutero-Pauline literature (Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles); and some tractates from the Nag Hammadi library (giving particular attention to the Gospel of Philip, the Exegesis on the Soul, the Hypostasis of the Archons and the Gospel of Thomas). The theoretical position she takes is based upon the neo-pragmatist thought of Richard Rorty and Stanley Fish, the former's notions of 'contingency' and 'redescription' being of particular importance. The aim of this book is twofold: to draw attention to the contingency (that is to say, the situatedness and vested interests) attendant on all acts of interpretation; and to engage in a redescription of the category of 'gnosticism' to which the Nag Hammadi texts have traditionally been assigned, and thus also of the canonical texts as seen in relation to them. It is not the intention to suggest in a simplistic fashion that the Nag Hammadi texts should somehow displace the canonical documents as the 'correct' reading of Paul, but rather to show that texts can be read in ways as diverse and numerous as the goals of their interpreters. JSNTS 296"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: WOMEN AND MARRIAGE IN PAUL AND HIS EARLY INTERPRETERS; PART I: PAUL; PART II: DEUTERO-PAULINE LETTERS; PART III: NAG HAMMADI; Conclusion: REDESCRIBING PAUL; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [162]-173) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613206565

9781474214001

1474214002

9781283206563

1283206560

9781441159045

1441159045

OCLC:

741690058