A Feminist Companion to Luke

A Feminist Companion to Luke
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2002-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781841271743

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.

Feminist Companion to Matthew

Feminist Companion to Matthew
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2001-12-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1841272116

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)

Feminist Companion to John

Feminist Companion to John
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0826462553

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)

A Feminist Companion to the Acts of the Apostles

A Feminist Companion to the Acts of the Apostles
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: Continuum
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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.

A Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebews

A Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebews
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780826466822

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.

Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament

Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament
Author: Athalya Brenner
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1850757542

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. >

Feminist Companion to John

Feminist Companion to John
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567461734

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.

A Feminist Companion to Mariology

A Feminist Companion to Mariology
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2005-08-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780826466617

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>