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A feminist companion to the New Testament Apocrypha / edited by Amy-Jill Levine ; with Maria Mayo Robbins.

Contributor(s): Levine, Amy-Jill, 1956- | Robbins, Maria Mayo
Material type: TextTextSeries: Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings: 11.Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : The Pilgrim Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: viii, 292 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0829817549 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780829817546 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Apocryphal books (New Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Feminist theoryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Amy-Jill Levine -- 'Her own proper kinship': marriage, class and women in the apocryphal acts of the apostles / Andrew S. Jacobs -- The erotic asceticism of the passion of Andrew : the apocryphal acts of Andrew, the Greek novel and platonic philosophy / Caroline T. Schroeder -- The question of early Christian identity : three strategies exploring a third genos / Richard Valantasis -- Drusiana, Cleopatra and some other women in the acts of John / Jan N. Bremmer -- Who was that chaste prostitute? a Socratic answer to an enigma in the acts of John / Dennis R. MacDonald -- Construction of culture through the construction of person : the construction of Thecla in the acts of Thecla / Johannes N. Vorster -- Suffering children, parental authority and the quest for liberation? : a tale of three girls in the acts of Paul (and Thecla), the act(s) of Peter, the acts of Nerseus and Achilleus and the epistle of pseudo-Titus / Cornelia B. Horn -- Answers to the plights of an ascetic woman named Thecla / Magda Misset-van de Weg -- Thecla 'tried and true' and the inversion of romance / Susan A. Calef -- Buying the stairway to heaven : Perpetua and Thecla as early Christian heroines / Gail P. C. Streete -- Sexual defence by proxy : interpreting women's fasting in the acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena / Jill C. Gorman -- Thinking with virgins : engendering Judaeo-Christian difference / Daniel Boyarin.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Amy-Jill Levine -- 'Her own proper kinship': marriage, class and women in the apocryphal acts of the apostles / Andrew S. Jacobs -- The erotic asceticism of the passion of Andrew : the apocryphal acts of Andrew, the Greek novel and platonic philosophy / Caroline T. Schroeder -- The question of early Christian identity : three strategies exploring a third genos / Richard Valantasis -- Drusiana, Cleopatra and some other women in the acts of John / Jan N. Bremmer -- Who was that chaste prostitute? a Socratic answer to an enigma in the acts of John / Dennis R. MacDonald -- Construction of culture through the construction of person : the construction of Thecla in the acts of Thecla / Johannes N. Vorster -- Suffering children, parental authority and the quest for liberation? : a tale of three girls in the acts of Paul (and Thecla), the act(s) of Peter, the acts of Nerseus and Achilleus and the epistle of pseudo-Titus / Cornelia B. Horn -- Answers to the plights of an ascetic woman named Thecla / Magda Misset-van de Weg -- Thecla 'tried and true' and the inversion of romance / Susan A. Calef -- Buying the stairway to heaven : Perpetua and Thecla as early Christian heroines / Gail P. C. Streete -- Sexual defence by proxy : interpreting women's fasting in the acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena / Jill C. Gorman -- Thinking with virgins : engendering Judaeo-Christian difference / Daniel Boyarin.

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