A Feminist Companion to the Catholic Epistles and Hebews

Description

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.

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.

Review ~ International Review of Biblical Studies, vol 51, 2004/05 'Liberating contents and...nuanced positions.' Journal of the Church History Society of Southern Africa, April 2008 'One of the strengths of this volume lies in the series of articles that examine the role of women in relation to the social and cultural context of 1 Peter.' ~ Susan Miller, Vol 28.5, 2006 -- Susan Miller * Journal for the Study of the New Testament *