Women and gender in ancient religions : interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, Paul A. Holloway and James A. Kelhoffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahearne-Kroll, Stephen P., 1967-

Holloway, Paul A., 1955-

Kelhoffer, James A.

Series:

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament - Band 263

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 0512-1604 ; 263

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Women and religion.

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

Women in Christianity.

Paganism--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Paganism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hauptbeschreibung Following a scholarly conference given in honor of Adela Yarbro Collins, this collection of essays offers focused studies on the wide range of ways that women and gender contribute to the religious landscape of the ancient world. Experts in Greek and Roman religions, Early Christianity, Ancient Judaism, and Ancient Christianity engage in literary, social, historical, and cultural analysis of various ancient texts, inscriptions, social phenomena, and cultic activity. These studies continue the welcomed trend in scholarship that expands the social location of women i

Contents:

Pt. I: Narrative: The Virgin and the Goddess : women and religion in the Greek romance / Loveday Alexander

The portrayal of Aseneth in Joseph and Aseneth : women's religious experience in antiquity and the limitations of ancient narratives / Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll

Roman Imperial family values and the Gospel of Mark : the divorce sayings (Mark 10:2-12) / Mary Rose D'Angelo

A tale of two Markan characterizations : the exemplary woman who anointed Jesus' body for burial (14:3-9) and the silent trio who fled the empty tomb (16:1-8) / James A. Kelhoffer

Motherhood and making of fathers in antiquity : contextualizing genetics in the Gospel of John / Turid Karlsen Seim

Embryology, plant biology, and divine generation in the fourth gospel / Clare K. Rothschild

Blamint the women : women at Herod's court in Josephus' Jewish Antiquities 15.23-231 / Jan Willem van Henten

To bear or not to bear : the argument for abstinence in the Greek Gospel of the Egyptians / Robert Doran

Blood ties : martyrdom, mothehood, and family in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas / Candida R. Moss

A new web for Arachne and a new veil for the temple : women and weaving from Athena to the Virgin Mary / Jeremy F. Hultin

Pt. II.: Ritual: Victimology : or, how to blame someone for an untimely death / Fritz Graf

Blaming the witch : some reflections upon unexpected death / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Forget me not : memory and the female subject in ancient binding spells / Stephen J. Davis

Women and Eros in Greek magic and the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Matt Jackson-McCabe

Holding the line : women, ritual, and the protection of Rome / Carin M. C. Green

Pt. III: Logos: Gender and grief : Seneca's Ad Marciam and Ad Helviam matrem / Paul A. Holloway

Religious experience, the religion of Paul, and women in the Pauline churches / Christopher N. Mount

The example of Thecla and the example(s) of Paul : disputing women's roles in Early Christianity / Outi Lehtipuu

Sophrosyne for women in Pythagorean texts / Annette Bourland Huizenga

Becoming the perfect man : Clement of Alexandria on the philosophical life of women / Judith L. Kovacs

The Spirit as Mother in early Syriac-speaking Christianity / Susan E. Myers.

Notes:

Revised versions of papers given at the conference "Women in the Religious and Intellectual Activity of the Ancient Mediterranean World : an Interdisciplinary and International Conference in Honor of Adela Yarbro Collins" held March 15-17, 2009 at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio and The Ohio State University": Introd. p. [1].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Druckversion

ISBN:

1-280-04423-3

9786613517807

3-16-151552-8

OCLC:

782878883