Distant Voices Drawing Near : Essays in Honor of Antoinette Clark Wire

by Hearon, Holly E.

• ISBN13: 9780814651575
• ISBN10: 0814651577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Liturgical Pr

Summary

Distant voices drawing near is a tribute to the scholarly career of Antoinette Clark Wire, the Robert S. Dollar Professor of New Testament at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. In recognition of her work, the contributors to the volume have critically engaged the areas of Christian origins and the role of women in the biblical world, hermeneutics and feminist perspectives in biblical interpretation, and cross-cultural study of the Bible.

Author Biography

Holly E. Hearon, Ph.D., teaches New Testament courses at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction: A Biographical Sketch	p. xi
Women and Christian Origins
"What She Has Done Will Be Told...": Reflections on Writing Feminist History	p. 3
Phoebe, a Minister in the Early Christian Church	p. 19
Listen to the Voices of the Women	p. 33
Placing Women at the Hermeneutical Center
Why Did Sarah Laugh?	p. 57
Metaphor and Ambiguity in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis	p. 69
Purity and Holiness of Women and Men in 1 Corinthians and the Consequences for Feminist Hermeneutics	p. 83
Placing the Text in Context
Accusing Whom of What? Hosea's Rhetoric of Promiscuity	p. 97
The Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13): The Integrity of Identity and Activity	p. 117
De-colonizing Ourselves as Readers: The Story of the Syro-Phoenician Woman as a Text	p. 131
What's the Matter with Nicodemus? A Social Science Perspective on John 3:1-21	p. 145
Sacrifice No More	p. 159
Cross-Textual, Intertextual, and Inter-Media Readings
Engaging Lamentations and The Lament for the South: A Cross-Textual Reading	p. 173
Homer and Scripture in the Gospel of Mark	p. 189
The Life and Death of the Just One: A Community Schism in Wisdom of Solomon	p. 203
A[Gamma]NEIA as a Sublime Form of EP[Omega Sigma] in the Acts of Paul and Thecla	p. 215
Rendezvous with Thekla and Paul in Ephesos: Excavating the Evidence	p. 227
List of Contributors	p. 243
List of Publications of Antoinette Clark Wire	p. 245
Index of Ancient Writings	p. 249
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