Mapping gender in ancient religious discourses / / edited by Todd Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele.
This collection of essays focuses on issues related to gender at the intersection of religious discourses in antiquity. To that end, an array of traditions is analyzed with the aim of more fully situating the construction and representation of gender in early Christian, Jewish and Greco-Roman argume...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2007. |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biblical interpretation series ;
v. 84 Biblical Interpretation Series 84. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (600 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Penner and Vander Stichele
- Mapping as metamorphosis: Initial reflections on gender and ancient religious discourses / Virginia Burrus
- Still before sexuality: \'Greek\' androgyny, the roman imperial politics of masculinity and the roman invention of the Tribas / Diana M. Swancutt
- Gender and geopolitics in the work of Philo of Alexandria: Jewish piety and imperial family values / Mary RoseD’Angelo
- The rhetoric of \'magic\' in early christian discourse: Gender, power and the construction of \'Heresy\' / Kimberly B. Stratton
- Before your very eyes: Roman imperial ideology, gender constructs and Paul’s inter-nationalism / Davina C. Lopez
- Vice lists and deviant masculinity: The rhetorical function of 1 Corinthians5:10–11 and 6:9–10 / Fredrik Ivarsson
- Novel men: Masculinity and empire in Mark’s gospel and Xenophon’s an ephesian tale / Eric Thurman
- Script(ur)ing gender in acts: The past and present power of imperium
- From bedroom to courtroom: The adultery type-scene and the acts of Andrew / Saundra Schwartz
- The rhetoric of the maternal book-body in the passion of Perpetua / Judith Perkins
- Wearing it well: Gender at work in the shadow of empire / Chris Frilingos
- Bodies in motion: Preliminary notes on queer theory and rabbinic literature / Gwynn Kessler
- Enslaved to demons: Sex, violence and the apologies of Justin Martyr / Jennifer Knust
- The seduction of weak men: Tertullian’s rhetorical construction of gender and ancient christian \'Heresy\' / Brad Windon
- Men of learning: The cult of Paideia in Lucian’s Alexander / Erik Gunderson
- Bibliography / Penner and Vander Stichele
- Index of primary sources / Penner and Vander Stichele
- Index of modern authors / Penner and Vander Stichele
- List of contributors / Penner and Vander Stichele.