Country Western singer Kinky Friedman often performs a song entitled "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore," and New Testament professor Amy-Jill Levine would agree. In fact, her career is dedicated to helping Christians and Jews understand the Jewishness of Jesus, thereby deepening the understanding of him, and facilitating greater ...
The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, Second Edition provides in-depth data and analysis of the production and reception of the canonical writings of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and also of the apocryphal works produced by Jewish and Christian writers. Unique among single-volume introductions, this book focuses on the ever-changing social ...
"The Historical Jesus in Context" is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and ...
An exhaustive and comprehensive one-volume Bible reference that draws upon both Jewish and Christian Biblical scholarship, recent archeological discoveries, and the wealth of new literary, historical, sociological, and anthropological approaches to the Bible. Ecumenical in its scholarship, enriched with maps, charts, and illustrations, and ...
This third volume in the "feminist companions" series deals with Lukan themes in feminist perspectives. The 14 essays from an international authorship cover a range of issues, including imperial masculinity, Mary and asceticism, Martha in the kitchen and reading Luke 15 with Arab-Christian women. The list of contributors includes Robert Karris, ...
Launching a new series to include both reprints of classic studies and specially commissioned essays (includes essays by J. Dewey, S. Ringe, R. Wickramaratne-Rebera and E. Struthers Malbon). A Feminist Companion to Mark, edited and introduced by A-J Levine of Vanderbilt University, contains contributions by beginning as well as established ...
These eight essays carefully examine the text of John. Contributors: F. Scott Spencer, Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Stephen D. Moore, Jerome H. Neyrey, Jane S. Webster, Mona West, Holly J. Toensing, and Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger.
The ninth volume in this series deals with the second part of Luke's narrative: the Acts of the Apostles. In this diverse collection, Janice Capel Anderson, James Arlandson, Virginia Burrus, Karen Torjesen, Beverly Gavanta, Musimbi Kanyoro, Dennis MacDonald, Shelly Matthews, Todd Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Robert Price, Barbara Reid, Scott ...
The second volume of essays on John. Contributors: Adele Reinhartz, Satako Yamaguchi, Dorothy Lee, Colleen Conway, Adeline Fehribach, Deborah Sawyer, Harold Attridge, and Jane Schaberg.
In its twelfth volume this text examines a number of Patristic texts and early Christian documents from a feminist perspective."The Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature" is the twelfth volume in the "Feminist Companion to the Bible and Early Christian Literature" series. Presenting cutting-edge studies by both established scholars and new ...
The eleventh volume in this series examines New Testament Apocryphal texts, including the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Acts of John, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Martyrdom of Perpetua, the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, the Acts of Andrew, the Acts of Thomas, and the Apocalypse of Peter, as well as Joseph and Asenath, the Irish ...
The twelve essays in this volume explore, through various approaches, not only the biblical portraits of Mary but also both 'the quest for the historical Mary' and the understandings of those portraits through the centuries. The expert contributors address such topics as the understandings of sexuality, the divine feminine, soteriology, first ...
The seventh volume of this companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to be genuinely from the Apostle. These are of particular importance in showing how Paul's authority was exploited in the Early Church, and the topics addressed often deal with Christian discipline and hierarchy. Hence there is a ...
This volume is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul, but widely thought of as not genuinely Pauline. Contributors include: David Scholer, Luise Schottroff, Bonnie Thurston, Lilian Portefaix, Sara Winter, Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger, Margaret MacDonald, Mary Ann Beavis, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Elna Mouton, Angela Standhartinger, and Jouette ...
Many people think that the Bible's perspective on sex is little more than a one-dimensional?and possibly antiquated?moralistic code of behavior. Yet many of these same people have not read the biblical passages themselves. They miss out on the provocative depth and richness of insight the Bible brings to issues of sex and sexuality, and how these ...
The ninth volume in this series deals with the second part of Lukes narrative: the Acts of the Apostles. In this diverse collection, Janice Capel Anderson, James Arlandson, Virginia Burrus, Karen Torjesen, Beverly Gavanta, Musimbi Kanyoro, Dennis MacDonald, Shelly Matthews, Todd Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Robert Price, Barbara Reid, Scott ...
The eight volume in this series continues the exploration of women's representations and roles, constructions of gender, and attitudes toward sexuality in the early church. Jim Aageson, Judith Applegate, Warren Carter, Pamela Eisenbaum, Ruth Hoppin, Luke Timothy Johnson, Catherine Clark Kroeger, Magda Missett van de Weg. John Elliott, Betsy Bauman ...
Ground-breaking feminist analyses from diverse methodological and cultural perspectives on the Gospel of Matthew's depictions of women, gender, sexuality and social class. Conjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this inaugural volume to the new series presents ground-breaking insights on the ...
This successor to the "Feminist Companion to the Bible" brings together the new and classical studies of the New Testament and early Christian literary corpus from the whole range of feminist perspectives now available. The first of two volumes devoted to the Johannine literature, this deals with the Fourth Gospel. The contents include an ...
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Are We Amused?: Humour about Women in the Biblical Worlds
