Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity: An Introduction (Lehtipuu and Dunderberg ) -- Part 1. Women and Knowledge in Social-Historical Contexts -- Chapter 1. Women and Independent Religious Specialists in Second-Century Rome (Denzey Lewis) -- Chapter 2....
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Women and knowledge in early Christianity] (2018) (Lafontaine, Xavier)
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| Series/Journal: | Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements Ser
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| Further subjects: | B
Women
B Women in the Bible B Electronic books B Women in Christianity-History-Early church, ca. 30-600 B Knowledge, Theory of-History B Gnosticism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Tervahauta, Ulla: Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity. - Boston : BRILL,c2017. - 9789004355439 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity: An Introduction (Lehtipuu and Dunderberg ) -- Part 1. Women and Knowledge in Social-Historical Contexts -- Chapter 1. Women and Independent Religious Specialists in Second-Century Rome (Denzey Lewis) -- Chapter 2. "She Destroyed Multitudes": Marcellina's Group in Rome (Snyder) -- Chapter 3. Some Remarks on Literate Women from Roman Egypt (Salmenkivi) -- Part 2. Afterlives of Women in Biblical Narratives -- Chapter 4. Women, Angels, and Dangerous Knowledge: The Myth of the Watchers in the Apocryphon of John and Its Monastic Manuscript-Context (Bull) -- Chapter 5. Jezebel in Jewish and Christian Tradition (Rasimus) -- Chapter 6. Mary and the Other Female Characters in the Protevangelium of James (Luomanen) -- Chapter 7. What Happened to Mary? Women Named Mary in the Meadow of John Moschus (Tervahauta) -- Part 3. Women in Ancient Intellectual Discourse -- Chapter 8. "For Women are Not Worthy of Life": Protology and Misogyny in Gospel of Thomas Saying 114 (Miroshnikov) -- Chapter 9. "Women" and "Heresy" in Patristic Discourses and Modern Studies (Petersen) -- Chapter 10. Astrological Determinism, Free Will, and Desire According to Thecla (St. Methodius, Symposium 8.15-16) (Burns) -- Chapter 11. Monastic Exegesis and the Female Soul in the Exegesis on the Soul (Lundhaug) -- Part 4. The Feminine Principle in Myth and Philosophy -- Chapter 12. Life, Knowledge and Language in Classic Gnostic Literature: Reconsidering the Role of the Female Spiritual Principle and Epinoia (Bak Halvgaard) -- Chapter 13. "Wisdom, Our Innocent Sister": Reflections on a Mytheme (Williams) -- Chapter 14. The Virgin That Became Male: Feminine Principles in Platonic and Gnostic Texts (Turner) -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources |
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| ISBN: | 9004344934 |