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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827460003321

Titolo

A feminist companion to Matthew / / edited by Amy-Jill Levine, with Marianne Blickenstaff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2001]

©2001

ISBN

1-283-19571-2

9786613195715

0-567-28414-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings

Disciplina

226.2/06

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Matthew: Gender and Reading; The Father in the Gospel of Matthew; Discharging Responsibility: Matthean Jesus, Biblical Law, and Hemorrhaging Woman; Jesus as Wisdom: A Feminist Reading of Matthew's Wisdom Christology; Surprised by Faith: Jesus and the Canaanite Woman; Not Without my Daughter: Gender and Demon Possession in Matthew 15.21-28; The Canaanite Women in Matthew; Absent Women in Matthew's Households; Got into the Party after All: Women's Issues and the Five Foolish Virgins

What Are Those Women Doing at the Tomb of Jesus? Perspectives on Matthew 28.1The Women at the Tomb: What Are They Doing There?; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Conjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this inaugural volume to the new series presents ground-breaking insights on the Gospel of Matthew. The eleven essays address women's social roles and literary representations, earthly and heavenly fathers, purity regulations and household configurations, Jesus and Wisdom, professional and lay reactions to women's service, the Canaanite women and the women at the tomb, and the interrelation of Matthew's female characters and



contemporary struggles for justice. Throughout, the articles expose the politi