Dancing girls, loose ladies, and women of the cloth : the women in Jesus' life / F. Scott Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, F. Scott (Franklin Scott)

Series:

New Testament Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the Bible.

Bible. Gospels--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Bible. Acts--Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The women in Jesus' life are a raucous and rowdy bunch, including "riotous" foremothers, "loose women," and "distressed daughters of Israel." Reading these new ways of interpreting women in the Gospels, male New Testament scholars have discovered liberating perspectives. In seven scintillating studies, Spencer explores among others the genealogy of Matthew's Gospel to discover the riotous yet righteous nature of Jesus' foremothers, slave girls and prophetic daughters in Luke-Acts, and women leading men in the Gospel of Mark 5-7. Scott Spencer, a virtuoso young New Testament scholar, provides h

Contents:

Getting into focus : reading with feminist lenses

Those riotous, yet righteous, foremothers of Jesus : exploring Matthew's comic genealogy

Shall we dance? : women leading men in Mark 5-7

"You just don't understand!" (or do you?) : Jesus, women, and conversation in the Fourth Gospel

Passions and passion : the "loose" lady, woman wisdom, and the Lukan Jesus

Out of mind, out of voice : slave-girls and prophetic daughters in Luke-Acts

Women of "the cloth" in Acts : sewing the Word.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-20575-0

9786613205759

1-4411-4023-9

OCLC:

741691177