Women in the Biblical World

A Survey of Old and New Testament Perspectives
Herausgeber: McCabe, Elizabeth A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume features the most current research in feminist biblical scholarship. This collection will whet the reader's appetite for cutting-edge research and encourage a closer look at key biblical passages that discuss women. New insights, greater depth of understanding, and greater appreciation for women in the Bible will inevitably result.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780761846772
• ISBN-10: 0761846778
• Artikelnr.: 27430779

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. McCabe is a doctoral candidate at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received an M.A. in biblical studies at Cincinnati Christian University with a dual concentration in Old Testament and New Testament. She is the author of the 2008 book, An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies. She has also recently been appointed co-chair of "Gender Studies and the Bible" in the Midwest Society of Biblical Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 About the Contributors
Chapter 5 Abbreviations
Chapter 6 1. Answers to Unresolved Questions: A Closer Look at Eve and Adam
in Genesis 2-3
Chapter 7 2. A Biological Consideration for the Extended Period of Impurity
after the Birth of a Daughter in Ancient Israel
Chapter 8 3. Rahab in Rehab: Christian Interpretation of the Madame from
Jericho
Chapter 9 4. Achsah, the Raped Pîlege? , and the Book of Judges
Chapter 10 5. You are a Bible Child: Exploring the Lives of Children and
Mothers through the Elisha Cycle
Chapter 11 6. Refusing the Syrophoenician Woman: The Disparate Perspectives
of Jesus, Mark, and Feminist Critiques
Chapter 12 7. Blessing the First Birth: A Feminist Critical Reading of Like
11:27-28
Chapter 13 8. A Reevaluation of Phoebe in Romans 16:1-2 as a Diakonos and
Prostatis: Exposing the Inaccuracies of English Translations
Chapter 14 9. Junia: Woman and Apostle
Chapter 15 10. In Search of the Voice of Women in the Churches: Revisiting
the Command to Silence Women in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Chapter 16 11. Bad Girls or Good Ascetics? The Gynaikaria of the Pastoral
Epistles