Transgressors is a collection of essays by the students and friends of Luise Schottroff, a pioneer of feminist liberation-theological exegesis in Germany and a teacher against anti-Semitism in biblical scholarship and theology. This collection introduces some of the best young scholars from around the world, including Ivoni Richter Reimer and Choon-Ho You-Martin.

Foreword

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``Your People Shall Be My People, and Your God My God.'' The Shared Life of Ruth and Naomi as a Model for Women Transgressing Intercultural Boundaries

1

(8)

Christiane Rosener

Living with the Torah. A Conversation with Rabbi Beruriah

9

(10)

Stefanie Muller

``I Am a Handmaid of the Living God!'' The Apostle Thecla and the Consequences of Transgression

19

(12)

Beate Wehn

Paul: Walking the Line Between Traditions and Ages

31

(8)

Claudia Janssen

Living Water: Elements of a Feminist Proclamation According to John 4

39

(8)

Marlene Crusemann

Peter: A Transgressor in His Own Time

47

(6)

Dagmur Henze

The Slave Woman's Challenge to Peter

53

(6)

Irene Dannemann

Domitia, Marcia, and the Nameless Smuggler: Pearl Dealers in the Roman Empire

59

(8)

Sigrid Lampe-Densky

The Agunah, the Bound Wife: A Transgressive Woman in Jewish Law and Her Significance for Early Christian Communities

67

(10)

Luzia Sutter Rehmann

``Do Justice for Me!''

77

(10)

Sigrun Wetzlaugk

Life Calls for Triumph and Celebration

87

(10)

Ivoni Richter Reimer

``Women's Movements'' and ``Women's Theology.'' Social Change in South Korea between Tradition and Postmodernity

97

(14)

Choon-Ho You-Martin

On Getting Out of One's Skin: Depictions of White Femininity in Film

111

(10)

Eske Wollrad

``Dynamis and Womanpower.'' An Investigation of the Concept of dynamis in the Gospels and Paul

121

(6)

Ulrike Metternich

``What we will be has not yet been revealed.'' An Archaeology of Seeing in John 9

127

(10)

Martina S. Gnadt

Protecting and Holding: Pastoral Companionship for Cancer Patients in a Multidisciplinary Team

137

(8)

Hanna Kreisel-Liebermann

Written in Their Bodies: On the Significance of Rituals in Caring for AIDS Patients

145

(10)

Andrea Bieler

God's Answer to Job

155

(8)

Wilhelm Schwendemann

Problem Girls: A Transgressive Reading of the Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13)

163

(10)

Bettina Eltrop

Author Biographies

173

(6)

Index of Subjects

179

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