Women and Christian Origins

by Kraemer, Ross Shepard; D'Angelo, Mary Rose

• ISBN13: 9780195103960
• ISBN10: 0195103963
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This new collection of fourteen integrated, original essays by prominent scholars and experienced teachers provides a comprehensive and accessible entree to current research on women and the origins of Christianity. Engaging for both the interested reader and the specialist in religion, Womenand Christian Origins is sensitive to feminist theory and attentive to distinctions between the (re)construction of women's history in early Christian churches and ancient constructions of gender difference

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
Creating the Context(s)	p. 11
Women's Lives in the Ancient Mediterranean	p. 13
Jewish Women and Christian Origins Some Caveats	p. 35
Notes	p. 46
Jewish Women and Women's Judaism(s) at the Beginning of Christianity	p. 50
Notes	p. 74
Women's Religions and Religious Lives in the Greco-Roman City	p. 80
Notes	p. 98
Women, Jesus, and Gospels	p. 103
Reconstructing """"Real"""" Women from Gospel Literature the Case of Mary Magdalene	p. 105
Notes	p. 125
(re) Presentations of Women in the Gospels John and Mark	p. 129
Notes	p. 146
Women in the Q Communit (ies) and Traditins	p. 150
Notes	p. 165
(re) Presentations of Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke-Acts	p. 171
Notes	p. 191
Mining the Pauline Tradition	p. 197
Reading Real Women Through the Undisputed Letters of Paul	p. 199
Notes	p. 218
Paul on Women and Gender	p. 221
Notes	p. 233
Rereading Paul Early Interpreters of Paul on Women and Gender	p. 236
Notes	p. 252
Gender, Authority, and Redemption in Early Christian Churches	p. 255
Women, Gender, and Gnosis in Gnostic Texts and Traditions	p. 257
Notes	p. 288
Women, Ministry, and Church Order in Early Christianity	p. 300
Notes	p. 322
Women as Sources of Redemption and Knowledge in Early Christian Traditions	p. 330
Notes	p. 352
Abbreviations	p. 355
Comprehensive Bibliography	p. 357
Index of Ancient Sources Cited	p. 381
Index of Names	p. 393
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