04126nam 2200505 450 991040406980332120220526084401.090-04-34493-410.1163/9789004344938(CKB)4100000000729598(MiAaPQ)EBC5570591(OCoLC)1008774215(nllekb)BRILL9789004344938(Au-PeEL)EBL5570591(EXLCZ)99410000000072959820220526d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWomen and knowledge in early Christianity /Ulla Tervahauta [and three others]Leiden :Brill,[2017]©20171 online resource (x, 379 pages)Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae : texts and studies of early Christian life and language,0920-623X ;v. 14490-04-35543-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter /Ulla Tervahauta , Ivan Miroshnikov , Outi Lehtipuu and Ismo Dunderberg --Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity: An Introduction /Outi Lehtipuu and Ismo Dunderberg --Women and Independent Religious Specialists in Second-Century Rome /Nicola Denzey Lewis --“She Destroyed Multitudes”: Marcellina’s Group in Rome /H. Gregory Snyder --Some Remarks on Literate Women from Roman Egypt /Erja Salmenkivi --Women, Angels, and Dangerous Knowledge: The Myth of the Watchers in the Apocryphon of John and Its Monastic Manuscript-Context /Christian H. Bull --Jezebel in Jewish and Christian Tradition /Tuomas Rasimus --Mary and the Other Female Characters in the Protevangelium of James /Petri Luomanen --What Happened to Mary? Women Named Mary in the Meadow of John Moschus /Ulla Tervahauta --“For Women are Not Worthy of Life”: Protology and Misogyny in Gospel of Thomas Saying 114 /Ivan Miroshnikov --“Women” and “Heresy” in Patristic Discourses and Modern Studies /Silke Petersen --Astrological Determinism, Free Will, and Desire According to Thecla (St. Methodius, Symposium 8.15–16) /Dylan M. Burns --Monastic Exegesis and the Female Soul in the Exegesis on the Soul /Hugo Lundhaug --Life, Knowledge and Language in Classic Gnostic Literature: Reconsidering the Role of the Female Spiritual Principle and Epinoia /Tilde Bak Halvgaard --“Wisdom, Our Innocent Sister”: Reflections on a Mytheme /Michael A. Williams --The Virgin That Became Male: Feminine Principles in Platonic and Gnostic Texts /John D. Turner --Bibliography /Ulla Tervahauta , Ivan Miroshnikov , Outi Lehtipuu and Ismo Dunderberg --Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources /Ulla Tervahauta , Ivan Miroshnikov , Outi Lehtipuu and Ismo Dunderberg.Women and knowledge are interconnected in several ways in late ancient and early Christian discourses, not least because wisdom (Sophia) and spiritual knowledge (Gnosis) were frequently personified as female entities. Ancient texts deal with idealized women and use feminine imagery to describe the divine but they also debate women’s access to and capacity of gaining knowledge. Combining rhetorical analysis with social historical approaches, the contributions in this book cover a wide array of source materials, drawing special attention to the so-called Gnostic texts. The fourteen essays, written by prominent experts of ancient Christianity, are dedicated to Professor Antti Marjanen (University of Helsinki).Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements144.Women in ChristianityHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600Women in the BibleElectronic books.Women in ChristianityHistoryWomen in the Bible.270.1082Tervahauta UllaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910404069803321Women and knowledge in early Christianity2264005UNINA