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A Feminist Companion To The Acts Of The Apostles
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Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to the Acts of the Apostles by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to the Acts of the Apostles written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth volume in this series deals with the second part of Luke's narrative- the Acts of the Apostles. In this diverse collection, the contributors utilize a variety of approaches to address issues of ethnicity and class, economic and social status, speech and silence, comedy and tragedy, construction of masculinity, mission and postcolonial response, and literary influences both behind and in front of the text.
Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to the New Testament Apocrypha written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh volume in this series examines New Testament Apocryphal texts, including the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Acts of John, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Martyrdom of Perpetua, the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, the Acts of Andrew, the Acts of Thomas, and the Apocalypse of Peter, as well as Joseph and Asenath, the Irish apocrypha, and the Greek novels. In this diverse collection the contributors utilize a variety of approaches to explore topics such as the construction of Christian identity, the Christian martyr, heterodoxy and orthodoxy, conjugal ethics and apostolic homewreckers, trials and temptations, the rhetoric of the body, asceticism, and eroticism.
Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to Luke by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Luke written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in this series deals with Lukan themes in feminist perspectives. The fourteeen essays from an international authorship cover a range of issues, including Imperial Masculinity, Mary and Asceticism, Martha in the Kitchen and Reading Luke 15 with Arab Chistian Women. The list of contributors includes Robert Karris, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Brigitte Kahl, Turd Karlsen Seim, Barbara Reid, Teresa Hornsby, Ben Witherington III, Esther DeBoer, Veronica Koperski, Loveday Alexander, Warren Carter, Pamela Thimmes, Carol Schersten Lahurd and Maris-Luisa Rigato. The volume also includes an introduction by the editor, and a bibloigraphy.
Book Synopsis Feminist Companion to Paul by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book Feminist Companion to Paul written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh volume of this Companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to be genuiinely from the Apostle. These are of particular importance in showing how Paul's authority was exploited in the Early Church, and the topics addressed often deal with Christian discipline and hierarchy. Hence there is a particularly strong feminist agenda to be explored here.The Pastoral Epistles, Ephesians and Colossians are prominent among the writings addressed in this sparkling collection, and the authors include David Scholer, Luise Schottroff, Bonnie Thurston, Lilian Portefaix, Sara Winter and Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger.
Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to Paul by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Paul written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume in this series deals with the letters that are generally attributed to the apostle Paul. In this formidable collection, contributors including Richard Hays, Daniel Boyarin, Kathleen Corley, Beverly Gaventa, Margaret MacDonald and Luise Schottroff explore such topics as gender, sexuality, marriage, the physical body, leadership, economic justice, Jewish-Christian relations, metaphors of birth and motherhood, adoption, and slavery.
Book Synopsis Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Taking Up the Cross by : Barbara E. Reid
Download or read book Taking Up the Cross written by Barbara E. Reid and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Fresh insights into the power of New testament imagery to promote life as well as to perpetuate suffering * Close readings of New Testament narratives and metaphors for the suffering of Jesus
Book Synopsis Feminist Companion to John by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book Feminist Companion to John written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second feminist volume volume on Johannine literature includes an Introduction by Amy-Jill Levine; Adele Reinhartz on Women in the Johannine Community: An Exercise in Historical Imagination; Satako Yamaguchi, 'I Am (I Do)' Sayings and Women in Context and Dorothy Lee, Abiding in the Fourth Gospel.Colleen Conway writes on Gender Matters in John; Adeline Fehribach on The Crucifixion in the Fourth Gospel: A Birthing Moment; Deborah Sawyer on Water and Blood: Birthing Images in John's Gospel; Harold Attridge on Don't Be Touching Me: Recent Feminist Scholarship on Mary Magdalene; and Jane Schaberg, Thinking Back through the Magdalene.
Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to Mark by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Mark written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebews by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebews written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth volume in this series continues the exploration of women's representations and roles, constructions of gender, and attitudes toward sexuality in the early church. Jim Aageson, Judith Applegate, Warren Carter, Pamela Eisenbaum, Ruth Hoppin, Luke Timothy Johnson, Catherine Clark Kroeger, Magda Missett van de Weg, John Elliott, Betsy Bauman-Martin, and Timothy Cargal tackle a variety of complex issues involving slavery, prostitution, widows, church leadership, suffering, women's agency, and Evangelical responses to the so-called "texts of terror". This volume advances discussion on these often overlooked and misunderstood general letters.
Book Synopsis Women in the Acts of the Apostles by : Ivoni Richter Reimer
Download or read book Women in the Acts of the Apostles written by Ivoni Richter Reimer and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many colorful women in the biblical book of Acts are brought to life in this book from a feminist liberation perspective: Sapphira, whose property in marriage is explained; Lydia, the seller of purple dye; Candace, the queen of Ethiopia; the disciple Tabitha; Priscilla, the co-apostle with her husband, Aquilla; and many others.
Book Synopsis Feminist Companion to Matthew by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book Feminist Companion to Matthew written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-12-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this volume ..... presents ground-breaking insights on the Gospel of Matthew...... (from back cover)
Book Synopsis Feminist Companion to John by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book Feminist Companion to John written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 2: ....studies...includes some that seek to locate the cumulative effect of all the stories concerning women, these lead to general suggestions concerning both the evangelist's view of gender and the role of women in the Johannine community. Also Christological language and theological categories in search for an alternative to the androcentrism and exclusivity theologians typically associate with the Fourth Gospel.Highlights of spcific scenes e.g. crucifixion; appearance to Mary Magdalene; ato interrogate the function of feminine imagery, the implications of particularly troublesome verses & the cultural appropriations of the narratives. .... (from back cover)
Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to the Deutero-Pauline Epistles by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to the Deutero-Pauline Epistles written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul, but widely thought of as not genuinely Pauline. Contributors include: David Scholer, Luise Schottroff, Bonnie Thurston, Lilian Portefaix, Sara Winter, Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger, Margaret MacDonald, Mary Ann Beavis, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Elna Mouton, Angela Standhartinger, and Jouette Bassler.
Book Synopsis Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament by : Athalya Brenner
Download or read book Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament written by Athalya Brenner and published by Sheffield Academic Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. The contributors to this volume are Lyn Bechtel, Mark Bredin, Athalya Brenner, Edna Brocke, Carole Fontaine, Lillian Klein, Amy-Jill Levine, Judith Lieu, Heather McKay, Adele Reinhartz, Jane Schaberg, Marla Selvidge, Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz, Beverly Stratton, Arie Troost, Pieter van der Horst, and Bea Wyler.
Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to the Deutero-Pauline Epistles by : Marianne Blickenstaff
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to the Deutero-Pauline Epistles written by Marianne Blickenstaff and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The seventh volume of this Companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to be genuinely from the Apostle. These are of particular importance in showing how Paul's authority was exploited in the Early Church, and the topics addressed often deal with Christian discipline and hierarchy. Hence there is a particularly strong feminist agenda to be explored here. The Pastoral Epistles, Ephesians and Colossians are prominent among the writings addressed in this sparkling collection, and the authors include David Scholer, Luise Schottroff, Bonnie Thurston, Lilian Portefaix, Sara Winter and Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Book Synopsis A Feminist Companion to Mariology by : Amy-Jill Levine
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Mariology written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-08-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in this volume explore, through various approaches, not only the biblical portraits of Mary but also both "the quest for the historical Mary" and the understandings of those portraits through the centuries. Valerie Abrahamsen, Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, John Dominic Crossan, Mary F. Foskett, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Deirdre Good, Jorunn Økland, Jane Schaberg, George H. Tavard, John van den Hengel, Pieter W. van der Horst, and George T. Zervos offer contributions that address such topics as the understandings of sexuality, the divine feminine, soteriology, first-century social history, christology, Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox hermeneutics, ecumenical and interfaith relations, and the meaning of "virginity." Volume 10 of the Feminist Companions to the Bible Series>
