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Author Spencer, F. Scott (Franklin Scott)

Title Dancing girls, loose ladies, and women of the cloth : the women in Jesus' life / F. Scott Spencer
Published New York : Continuum, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages)
Series New Testament Guides
New Testament guides.
Contents Getting into focus : reading with feminist lenses -- Those riotous--yet righteous--foremothers of Jesus : exploring Matthew's comic genealogy -- Shall we dance? : women leading men in Mark 5-7 -- You just don't understand! (or do you?) : Jesus, women, and conversation in the Fourth Gospel -- Passions and passion : the "loose" lady, woman wisdom, and the Lukan Jesus -- Out of mind, out of voice : slave-girls and prophetic daughters in Luke-Acts -- Women of "the cloth" in Acts : sewing the Word
Summary The women in Jesus' life are a raucous and rowdy bunch, including "riotous" foremothers, "loose women," and "distressed daughters of Israel." Reading these new ways of interpreting women in the Gospels, male New Testament scholars have discovered liberating perspectives. In seven scintillating studies, Spencer explores among others the genealogy of Matthew's Gospel to discover the riotous yet righteous nature of Jesus' foremothers, slave girls and prophetic daughters in Luke-Acts, and women leading men in the Gospel of Mark 5-7. Scott Spencer, a virtuoso young New Testament scholar, provides h
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Jesus Christus. swd
Bible. Gospels -- Feminist criticism
Bible. Acts -- Feminist criticism
Bible. Acts fast
Bible. Gospels fast
Bibel Neues Testament gnd
Subject Women in the Bible.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
Feminist criticism
Women in the Bible
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Vrouwen.
Nieuwe Testament.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441140234
1441140239
1283205750
9781283205757