Reading Women in the New Testament Letters / edited by Korinna Zamfir and Uta Poplutz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zamfir, Korinna, editor.

Poplutz, Uta, editor.

Series:

Bible and women ; Volume 2.2.

Bible and Women Series ; Volume 2.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Epistles--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Bible. Epistles--Criticism, Narrative.

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

Women in Christianity.

Women in the Bible.

Christian women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This volume explores the differing views expressed in the New Testament letters about the position of women in first- and second-generation Christian communities. Contributors place the letters in their broader Jewish and Greco-Roman cultural, religious, and social contexts to better understand how gender roles, family life, and women's responsibilities for spreading the gospel changed over time. While some essays envision the lived realities of women as wives, mothers, and widows, both the free and the enslaved, others examine the rhetorical and theological function of female metaphors." -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Foreword to the English Edition

Abbreviations

Introducing women in the New Testament letters / Korinna Zamfir and Uta Poplutz

Observations on the rhetoric of gender in the New Testament letters / Peter Lampe

Looking beyond the topos of the domestic woman : work, euergetism, and religious roles in the Greco-Roman world / Korinna Zamfir

Female officeholders in ancient Jewish synagogues (Mainly second-seventh centuries CE) / Bernadette J. Brooten

Women and sexuality / William R. G. Loader

New Testament letters on wives, separation, and divorce / Christine Gerber and Tanja Forderer

Mothers in contexts : intersections of letters and lives / Annette Bourland Huizenga

Duties of age : old women in New Testament letters / Angela Standhartinger

Sharp contrasts? 1 Timothy 5 and Roman-Hellenistic stereotypes of widows / Michael Sommer

The submission of women in the First Letter of Peter / Maria Jose Schultz Montalbetti

Toiling together, leading together? Women apostles, coworkers, and hosts of domestic ekklesiai as attested in the Pauline letters / Dominika Kurek-Chomycz

Women as teachers and learners in the Corpuse Paulinum / Korinna Zamfir

Virginity and apostolate : the example of Paul / Marinella Perroni and Silvia Zanconato

Obedience and subordination or equality and liberation? A contribution to the history of transmission of the letters of Paul / Silke Petersen

A polyphony of silence and speech? The ambiguous female voices of the Corpus Paulinum / Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

Circumcised Hagar, the slave, and uncircumcised Sarah, the free woman : feminizing the circumcision scenario of the Galatian congregations / Heidrun E. Mader

Feminine Characterizations of God : Reading women in the New Testament letters / Beate Kowalski

The woman - From companion to deceived deceiver : the reception of Genesis 1-3 in the New Testament letters / Elisa Estevez Lopez

Woman power in faith : women as models of faith in the letter to the Hebrews / Miklos Szabo

Contributors

Ancient sources index

Modern authors index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781628375947

1628375949

OCLC:

1485002366