The Lost Coin Parables of Women, Work, and Wisdom

by Beavis, Mary Ann

• ISBN13: 9781841273228
• ISBN10: 1841273228
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-27
• Publisher: T&T Clark

Summary

A collection of feminist interpretations of parables about women and women's work. This volume not only fills a gap in the scholarly literature on parables, but brings to life vignettes from ancient Mediterranean women's lives and offer insights into the place of women in the ministry of Jesus, the early church, and Christian theology. It is a rich resource for scholarship, teaching and preaching.Contributors include the editor, Elisabeth Schnssler Fiorenza, Linda Maloney, Kathleen Nash, Pheme Perkins, Barbara Reid, Kathleen Rushton, Holly Hearon, and Adele Reinhartz. Topics include feminist readings of the Parable of the Persistent Widow, the ôWise and Foolish Virgins,ö the Prodigal Son, the Faithful Steward, and the ôBrideö in John 3.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	9	(2)
List of Contributors	11	(2)
Foreword	13	(4)
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Introduction: Seeking the `Lost Coin' of Parables about Women	17	(17)
Mary Ann Beavis
I `Lost' Parables of Women
`Swept Under the Rug': Feminist Homiletical Reflections on the Parable of the Lost Coin (Lk. 15.8-9)	34	(5)
Linda Maloney
Joy in Heaven, Sorrow on Earth: Luke 15.10	39	(7)
Mary Ann Beavis
Proclaiming the Parable of the Persistent Widow (Lk. 18.2-5)	46	(25)
Mary W. Matthews
Carter Shelley
Barbara Scheele
Opening the Closed Door: A Feminist Rereading of the `Wise and Foolish Virgins' (Mt. 25.1-13)	71	(27)
Vicky Balabanski
`Making Up Stories': A Feminist Reading of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk. 15.11b-32)	98	(26)
Mary Ann Beavis
II Parables of Women's Work
Patched Garments and Ruined Wine: Whose Folly? (Mk 2.21-22; Mt. 9.16-17; Lk. 5.36-37)	124	(12)
Pheme Perkins
`Women's Work in the Realm of God' (Mt. 13.33; Lk. 13.20, 21; Gos. Thom. 96; Mt. 6.28-30; Lk. 12.27-28; Gos. Thom. 36)	136	(22)
Holly Hearon
Antoinette Clark Wire
The Woman Carrying a Jar of Meal (Gos. Thom. 97)	158	(16)
Kamila Blessing
The Language of Mother Work in the Gospel of Thomas: Keeping Momma out of the Kingdom (Gos. Thom. 22)	174	(22)
Kathleen Nash
Who Is the Faithful Steward? Luke 12.41-45	196	(10)
Deborah Core
III Johannine Metaphors of Mother and Bride
The (Pro) creative Parables of Labour and Childbirth (Jn 3.1-10 and 16.21-22)	206	(24)
Kathleen Rushton
The `Bride' in John 3.29: A Feminist Rereading	230	(14)
Adele Reinhartz
IV Parables of Wisdom/Sophia
Jesus/Holy Mother Wisdom (Mt. 23.37-39)	244	(24)
Elaine Guillemin
The Enigma of the Yoke: Declining in Parables (Mt. 11.28-30)	268	(19)
Edith M. Humphrey
Wisdom's Children Justified (Mt. 11.16-19; Lk. 7.31-35)	287	(21)
Barbara E. Reid
V Finding Parable
Gathering: A Mythic Parable	308	(5)
Christin Lore Weber
Bibliography	313	(15)
Index of References	328	(12)
Index of Authors	340