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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454127203321

Autore

Okland Jorunn

Titolo

Women in Their Place [[electronic resource] ] : Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2005

ISBN

1-283-27085-4

9786613270856

0-567-01270-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Collana

The Library of New Testament Studies ; ; v.v. 269

Disciplina

227/.206

230.082

Soggetti

Women

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 FROM WOMAN TO 'WOMAN', FROM CHURCH TO EKKLESIA SPACE, FROM TEXT TO CONTEXT; Chapter 3 GENDER AETIOLOGIES AND THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF SPACES; Chapter 4 PLACES FOR WOMEN IN EARLY ROMAN CORINTH'S RITUAL AND SANCTUARY SPACES; Chapter 5 PLACING THE CHRISTIAN GATHERINGS: PAUL AND THE DISCOURSE OF SANCTUARY SPACE; Chapter 6 CORINTHIAN ORDER; Chapter 7 PAUL IN THE EARLY ROMAN CORINTHIAN DISCOURSE OF GENDER AND SANCTUARY SPACE: OBEDIENT AND SUBVERSIVE; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXES

Sommario/riassunto

In Women in Their Place Jorunn Økland takes the archaeological remains at Corinth as a starting point from which to develop an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed reading of Paul's utterances on women in 1 Corinthians 11-14. In this section of the letter Paul deals with the ritual gatherings and describes the ekklesia as a of ritual space distinct from domestic space. Økland assesses the text within a larger context of four different gender models found in temple architecture, rituals and literary texts. Whilst Paul's teaching in the letter effectively



engendered 'church' as male space,