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Bodies, borders, believers : ancient texts and present conversations : essays in honor of Turid Karlsen Seim on her 70th birthday / edited by Anne Hege Grung, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, and Anna Rebecca Solevåg.

Contributor(s): Seim, Turid Karlsen [honuree.] | Grung, Anne Hege, 1965- [editor.] | Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland, 1971- [editor.] | Solevåg, Anna Rebecca [editor.]
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Publisher: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1625644043; 9781625644046Subject(s): Bible. New Testament -- Social scientific criticism | Sociology, Biblical | Religion and sociologyBibliography, Etc. Note: "Bibliography: Turid Karlsen Seim's monographs, edited volumes, essays, and articles 1972-2014 / compiled by Svein Helge Birkeflet": pages 447-453.; Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Part1. Visions across time and space. Comparative study of gendered strategies to represent the sacrality of the group: Philo of Alexandria and a Korean-American Presbyterian Church / Karen L. King -- No sex in heaven, nor on earth?: Luke 20:27-38 as a proof-text in early Christian discourses on resurrection and asceticism / Outi Lehtipuu -- The body of God and the corpus of historiography: the life of Aphou of Pemdje and the anthropomolrphite controversy / Hugo Lundhaug -- Rewritten Eve traditions in the Apocryphon of John / Antti Marjanen -- Sub luce videantur: the time of light in early Renaissance painting / Per Sigurd Tveitevåg Styve -- Part 2. Life stages and transformations. The transformation of Aseneth / John J. Collins -- "The springtime of the body": resurrection in Minucius Felix's Octavius / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Like father like son: reassessing constructions of fatherhood in Ephesians in light of cultural interests in family continuity / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Salvation as slavery, marriage and birth: does the metaphor matter? / Anna Rebecca Solevåg -- Embodying the female body politic: pro-papal reception of Ephesians 5 in the later Middle Ages / Line Cecilie Engh -- Part 3. Contested dynamics of community. Opportunities and limits for women in early Christianity / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Emotional bonds and roles of the priestesses of Vesta / Katariina Mustakallio -- Impedimentum sexus: the cultic impediment of female humanity / Kari Elisabeth Børresen -- The dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans: its development and prospects / André Birmelé -- The unity of life: the statement on unity from the 10th WCC Assembly Busan, 2013 / Olav Fykse Tveit -- Diaconal ministry in the diaconal church: reflections on the interrelationship between ministerial theology and ecclesiology / Stephanie Dietrich -- Part 4. Patterns of ambiguity. Placing men in the double message of Luke's gospel / Halvor Moxnes -- Two mothers: Veturia and Mary; Two sons: Coriolanus and Jesus / David L. Balch -- Seeds of violence or buds of peace?: faith resources for creating a new peace consciousness and culture / Ursula King -- Reproductive capital and slave surrogacy: thinking about/with/beyond Hagar / Marianne Bjelland Kartzow -- Die präsentisch-immanente Wirkung des Zornes Gottes (Römer 1, 21-32) / David Hellholm -- "Saved through childbirth?: that's not what the Koran says": Muslim and Christian women in Norway making meaning of 1 Tim 2:8-15 / Anne Hege Grung.

"Bibliography: Turid Karlsen Seim's monographs, edited volumes, essays, and articles 1972-2014 / compiled by Svein Helge Birkeflet": pages 447-453.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part1. Visions across time and space. Comparative study of gendered strategies to represent the sacrality of the group: Philo of Alexandria and a Korean-American Presbyterian Church / Karen L. King -- No sex in heaven, nor on earth?: Luke 20:27-38 as a proof-text in early Christian discourses on resurrection and asceticism / Outi Lehtipuu -- The body of God and the corpus of historiography: the life of Aphou of Pemdje and the anthropomolrphite controversy / Hugo Lundhaug -- Rewritten Eve traditions in the Apocryphon of John / Antti Marjanen -- Sub luce videantur: the time of light in early Renaissance painting / Per Sigurd Tveitevåg Styve -- Part 2. Life stages and transformations. The transformation of Aseneth / John J. Collins -- "The springtime of the body": resurrection in Minucius Felix's Octavius / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Like father like son: reassessing constructions of fatherhood in Ephesians in light of cultural interests in family continuity / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Salvation as slavery, marriage and birth: does the metaphor matter? / Anna Rebecca Solevåg -- Embodying the female body politic: pro-papal reception of Ephesians 5 in the later Middle Ages / Line Cecilie Engh -- Part 3. Contested dynamics of community. Opportunities and limits for women in early Christianity / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Emotional bonds and roles of the priestesses of Vesta / Katariina Mustakallio -- Impedimentum sexus: the cultic impediment of female humanity / Kari Elisabeth Børresen -- The dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans: its development and prospects / André Birmelé -- The unity of life: the statement on unity from the 10th WCC Assembly Busan, 2013 / Olav Fykse Tveit -- Diaconal ministry in the diaconal church: reflections on the interrelationship between ministerial theology and ecclesiology / Stephanie Dietrich -- Part 4. Patterns of ambiguity. Placing men in the double message of Luke's gospel / Halvor Moxnes -- Two mothers: Veturia and Mary; Two sons: Coriolanus and Jesus / David L. Balch -- Seeds of violence or buds of peace?: faith resources for creating a new peace consciousness and culture / Ursula King -- Reproductive capital and slave surrogacy: thinking about/with/beyond Hagar / Marianne Bjelland Kartzow -- Die präsentisch-immanente Wirkung des Zornes Gottes (Römer 1, 21-32) / David Hellholm -- "Saved through childbirth?: that's not what the Koran says": Muslim and Christian women in Norway making meaning of 1 Tim 2:8-15 / Anne Hege Grung.

English; one German contribution.

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