The eleventh volume in this series examines New Testament Apocryphal texts, including the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Acts of John, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Martyrdom of Perpetua, the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, the Acts of Andrew, the Acts of Thomas, and the Apocalypse of Peter, as well as Joseph and Asenath, the Irish apocrypha, and the Greek novels. In this diverse collection the contributors utilize a variety of approaches to explore topics such as the construction of Christian identity, the Christian martyr, heterodoxy and orthodoxy, conjugal ethics and…mehr
The eleventh volume in this series examines New Testament Apocryphal texts, including the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Acts of John, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Martyrdom of Perpetua, the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, the Acts of Andrew, the Acts of Thomas, and the Apocalypse of Peter, as well as Joseph and Asenath, the Irish apocrypha, and the Greek novels. In this diverse collection the contributors utilize a variety of approaches to explore topics such as the construction of Christian identity, the Christian martyr, heterodoxy and orthodoxy, conjugal ethics and apostolic homewreckers, trials and temptations, the rhetoric of the body, asceticism, and eroticism.
Amy-Jill Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion, and director of the Carpenter Program in religion, gender and sexuality in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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AMY-JILL LEVINE Introduction ANDREW S. JACOBS 'Her Own Proper Kinship': Marriage, Class, and Women in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles Caroline T. Schroeder The Erotic Asceticism of the Passion of Andrew: the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew, the Greek Novel and Platonic Philosophy RICHARD VALANTASIS The Question of Early Christian Identity: Three Strategies Exploring a Third Genos JAN N. BREMMER Drusiana, Cleopatra, and Some Other Women in the Acts of John Dennis R. MacDonald Who Was that Chaste Prostitute? A Socratic Answer to an Enigma in the Acts of John JOHANNES N. VORSTER Construction of Culture Through the Construction of Person: the Acts of Thecla as an Example Cornelia B. Horn Suffering Children, Parental Authority, and the Quest for Liberation: A Tale of Three Girls in the Acts of Paul (and Thecla) and the Acts of Peter MAGDA MISSET-VAN DE WEG Answers to the Plights of an Ascetic Woman Named Thecla SUSAN A. CALEF Thecla 'Tried and True' and the Inversion of Romance GAIL C. STREETE Buying the Stairway to Heaven: Perpetua and Thecla as Early Christian Heroines JILL C. GORMAN Sexual Defense by Proxy: Interpreting Women's Fasting in the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena Daniel Boyarin Thinking with Virgins: Engendering Judeo-Christian Difference
AMY-JILL LEVINE Introduction ANDREW S. JACOBS 'Her Own Proper Kinship': Marriage, Class, and Women in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles Caroline T. Schroeder The Erotic Asceticism of the Passion of Andrew: the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew, the Greek Novel and Platonic Philosophy RICHARD VALANTASIS The Question of Early Christian Identity: Three Strategies Exploring a Third Genos JAN N. BREMMER Drusiana, Cleopatra, and Some Other Women in the Acts of John Dennis R. MacDonald Who Was that Chaste Prostitute? A Socratic Answer to an Enigma in the Acts of John JOHANNES N. VORSTER Construction of Culture Through the Construction of Person: the Acts of Thecla as an Example Cornelia B. Horn Suffering Children, Parental Authority, and the Quest for Liberation: A Tale of Three Girls in the Acts of Paul (and Thecla) and the Acts of Peter MAGDA MISSET-VAN DE WEG Answers to the Plights of an Ascetic Woman Named Thecla SUSAN A. CALEF Thecla 'Tried and True' and the Inversion of Romance GAIL C. STREETE Buying the Stairway to Heaven: Perpetua and Thecla as Early Christian Heroines JILL C. GORMAN Sexual Defense by Proxy: Interpreting Women's Fasting in the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena Daniel Boyarin Thinking with Virgins: Engendering Judeo-Christian Difference
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