Research Catalog

Title

Private women, public meals : social conflict in the synoptic tradition / Kathleen E. Corley.

Author

Corley, Kathleen E., 1960-

Publication

Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, [1993], ©1993.

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Description

xxi, 217 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This work, a revision of the author's Claremont dissertation, examines how women's differing roles in the ancient Greco-Roman world are reflected in the Gospel portraits of women. Focusing on women's varying portrayals in meal or banquet settings, Corley uncovers evidence that women's roles were undergoing radical social change throughout the Greco-Roman world - both in moving toward equality and in returning to a more traditional role.
• Such spadework helps us in analyzing the conflicting portrayals of women in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Bibliography, notes, and an index of ancient sources render this an invaluable tool for studying women in the Synoptics and ancient social attitudes toward women. This volume should be of particular interest to pastors and teachers, as well as college, university, and seminary students.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dinners and dining in the Bible
• Women in the Bible
• Social conflict in the Bible

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-206) and indexes.

Contents

Pt. I. Women in Early Christianity and Early Christian Communal Meals. 1. Women in Early Christianity and Early Christian Communal Meals. 2. Women in the Context of Greco-Roman Meals -- Pt. II. Women and Meals in the Synoptic Gospels. 3. Women and Meals in the Gospel of Mark. 4. Women and Meals in the Gospel of Luke. 5. Women and Meals in the Gospel of Matthew.

ISBN

1565630033 :

LCCN

93005702

OCLC

• 28495460
• ocm28495460

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries