Feminist Companion to Matthew

Amy-Jill Levine

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9781841272115
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567284143
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

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 politics of gender and sexuality imbedded in the narrative, and often in the scholarship, of the Gospel.This volume includes contributions by Janice Capel Anderson, Celia Deutsch, Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, Amy-Jill Levine, Thomas R.W. Longstaff, Gail R. O'Day, Caroline Osiek, Marie-Eloise Rosenblatt, Anthony J. Saldarini, Julian Sheffield and Elaine M. Wainwright.

Table of contents

• 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 28.1
• The Women at the Tomb: What Are They Doing There?
• Bibliography
• Index of References
• Index of Authors