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From the margins 2 : women of the New Testament and their afterlives / edited by Christine E. Joynes and Christopher C. Rowland.

Contributor(s): Joynes, Christine E | Rowland, Christopher, 1947-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Bible in the modern world: Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xxi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781906055813 (alk. paper); 1906055815 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Women in the Bible -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Christine E. Joynes and Christopher C. Rowland -- To cast a stone / John F. Deane -- Just another Jewish mother? Mary in the Jewish imagination / Lesleigh Cushing Stalberg -- Belittling Mary : insult, humiliation and early developments in mariology / John A. Darr -- 'Black but beautiful' : the Black Madonnas of Westen Europe and the Biblical commentaries of St. Bernardo of Clairvaux / Sarah Jane Boss -- Mary : bone of contention / Ann Loades -- The celluloid brothel : imag(in)ing woman in The Last Temptation of Christ / Melanie J. Wright -- Recasting the Magdalene in sixteenth-century Florence : the painting workshop of Michele Tosini / Heidi J. Hornik -- Mary Magdalene as Joculatrix Domini : Franciscan music and vernacular homiletics in the Shrewsbury Officium Resurrections and Easter plays from Germany and Bohemia / Peter Loewen -- 'What kind of woman is this?' reading Luke 7.36-50 in the light of Dante Rossetti's drawing 'Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee', 1853-59 / Rachel Nicholls -- Mary Magdalene as agent (or witness) of apocalypse / Christopher C. Rowland --
Too hot to handle? the story of an adulteress and the Gospel of John / Jennifer Wright Knust -- Herodias goes headhunting / Caroline Vander Stichele -- Short story, maximal imbroglio : Salome ancient and modern / Margarita Stocker -- Imagining Salome, or How La Sauterelle became La Femme Fatale / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Reading Salome : Caravaggio and the Gospel Narratives / Ela Nutu -- Wombs and tombs : the reception history of Mark 16.1-20 / Christine E. Joynes -- Sibling rivalry : Martha and Mary of Bethany / Ena Giurescu Heller -- 'Crumb Trails and puppy-dog tales' : reading afterlives of Canaanite woman / Louise J. Lawrence -- 'Juniam, nomen viri est' : on early modern readings of Paul's greetings to the Roman Church / Charlotte Methuen -- Blake's Jerusalem : refiguring revelation's women / Susanne Sklar -- Images of Babylon : a visual history of the whore in late Medieval and early modern art / Natasha O'Hear -- Fovea peccati et uterus ecclesiae : the symbolic nature of female sexuality on Medieval Baptismal fonts / Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Volume has its origins in project entitled 'Biblical Women and their Afterlives'"--Back cover.

Introduction / Christine E. Joynes and Christopher C. Rowland -- To cast a stone / John F. Deane -- Just another Jewish mother? Mary in the Jewish imagination / Lesleigh Cushing Stalberg -- Belittling Mary : insult, humiliation and early developments in mariology / John A. Darr -- 'Black but beautiful' : the Black Madonnas of Westen Europe and the Biblical commentaries of St. Bernardo of Clairvaux / Sarah Jane Boss -- Mary : bone of contention / Ann Loades -- The celluloid brothel : imag(in)ing woman in The Last Temptation of Christ / Melanie J. Wright -- Recasting the Magdalene in sixteenth-century Florence : the painting workshop of Michele Tosini / Heidi J. Hornik -- Mary Magdalene as Joculatrix Domini : Franciscan music and vernacular homiletics in the Shrewsbury Officium Resurrections and Easter plays from Germany and Bohemia / Peter Loewen -- 'What kind of woman is this?' reading Luke 7.36-50 in the light of Dante Rossetti's drawing 'Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee', 1853-59 / Rachel Nicholls -- Mary Magdalene as agent (or witness) of apocalypse / Christopher C. Rowland --

Too hot to handle? the story of an adulteress and the Gospel of John / Jennifer Wright Knust -- Herodias goes headhunting / Caroline Vander Stichele -- Short story, maximal imbroglio : Salome ancient and modern / Margarita Stocker -- Imagining Salome, or How La Sauterelle became La Femme Fatale / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Reading Salome : Caravaggio and the Gospel Narratives / Ela Nutu -- Wombs and tombs : the reception history of Mark 16.1-20 / Christine E. Joynes -- Sibling rivalry : Martha and Mary of Bethany / Ena Giurescu Heller -- 'Crumb Trails and puppy-dog tales' : reading afterlives of Canaanite woman / Louise J. Lawrence -- 'Juniam, nomen viri est' : on early modern readings of Paul's greetings to the Roman Church / Charlotte Methuen -- Blake's Jerusalem : refiguring revelation's women / Susanne Sklar -- Images of Babylon : a visual history of the whore in late Medieval and early modern art / Natasha O'Hear -- Fovea peccati et uterus ecclesiae : the symbolic nature of female sexuality on Medieval Baptismal fonts / Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens.

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