Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth
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Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth

The Women in Jesus' Life

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth

The Women in Jesus' Life

About this book

The women in Jesus' life are a raucous and rowdy bunch, including "riotous" foremothers, "loose women, " and "distressed daughters of Israel." Reading these new ways of interpreting women in the Gospels, male New Testament scholars have discovered liberating perspectives. In seven scintillating studies, Spencer explores among others the genealogy of Matthew's Gospel to discover the riotous yet righteous nature of Jesus' foremothers, slave girls and prophetic daughters in Luke-Acts, and women leading men in the Gospel of Mark 5-7. Scott Spencer, a virtuoso young New Testament scholar, provides his own lively forays into reading the Gospels through women's eyes. He shows what it is like for a man to read stories about the women in Jesus' life from a new perspective. Spencer is an able and inventive scholar whose broad-ranging insights and engaging style make his work very accessible.

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Yes, you can access Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth by F. Scott Spencer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Biblical Criticism & Interpretation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780826416124
eBook ISBN
9781441140234
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1. Getting into Focus: Reading with Feminist Lenses
  4. 2. Those Riotous—yet Righteous—Foremothers of Jesus: Exploring Matthew's Comic Genealogy
  5. 3. Shall We Dance?: Women Leading Men in Mark 5-7
  6. 4. "You Just Don’t Understand!" (or Do You?): Jesus, Women, and Conversation in the Fourth Gospel
  7. 5. Passions and Passion: The “Loose” Lady, Woman Wisdom, and the Lukan Jesus
  8. 6. Out of Mind, Out of Voice: Slave-Girls and Prophetic Daughters in Luke-Acts
  9. 7. Women of "the Cloth" in Acts: Sewing the Word
  10. Index