Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

A feminist companion to the Acts of the Apostles / edited by Amy-Jill Levine.

Contributor(s): Levine, Amy-Jill, 1956-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings: Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xi, 242 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0829816577 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780829816570 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Acts -- Feminist criticismBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Amy-Jill Levine -- Reading Tabitha : a feminist reception history / Janice Capel Anderson -- What ever happened to those prophesying daughters? / Beverly Roberts Gaventa -- Thinking mission in Africa / Musimbi Kanyoro -- The power of the widows and how to suppress it (Acts 6.1-7) / Barbara E. Reid, OP -- 'Knock, knock - who's there?' Acts 12.6-17 as a comedy of errors / Kathy Chambers -- Rhoda and Penelope : two more cases of Luke's suppression of women / Robert M. Price -- Lydia and her sisters at Lukan fictions / Dennis R. MacDonald -- Elite women, public religion, and Christian propaganda in Acts 16 / Shelly Matthews -- Women of 'the cloth' in Acts : sewing the word / F. Scott Spencer -- Lifestyles of the rich and Christian : women, wealth, and social freedom / James M. Arlandson -- Afterword to 'household management and women's authority' / Virginia Burrus and Karen Torjesen -- Changing woman : toward a postcolonial postfeminist interpretation of Acts 16.6-40 / Jeffrey L. Staley -- Gendering violence : patterns of power and constructs of masculinity in the Acts of the Apostles / Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Amy-Jill Levine -- Reading Tabitha : a feminist reception history / Janice Capel Anderson -- What ever happened to those prophesying daughters? / Beverly Roberts Gaventa -- Thinking mission in Africa / Musimbi Kanyoro -- The power of the widows and how to suppress it (Acts 6.1-7) / Barbara E. Reid, OP -- 'Knock, knock - who's there?' Acts 12.6-17 as a comedy of errors / Kathy Chambers -- Rhoda and Penelope : two more cases of Luke's suppression of women / Robert M. Price -- Lydia and her sisters at Lukan fictions / Dennis R. MacDonald -- Elite women, public religion, and Christian propaganda in Acts 16 / Shelly Matthews -- Women of 'the cloth' in Acts : sewing the word / F. Scott Spencer -- Lifestyles of the rich and Christian : women, wealth, and social freedom / James M. Arlandson -- Afterword to 'household management and women's authority' / Virginia Burrus and Karen Torjesen -- Changing woman : toward a postcolonial postfeminist interpretation of Acts 16.6-40 / Jeffrey L. Staley -- Gendering violence : patterns of power and constructs of masculinity in the Acts of the Apostles / Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele.

Powered by Koha