Research Catalog

Title

Gospel women : studies of the named women in the gospels / Richard Bauckham.

Author

Bauckham, Richard

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c2002.

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Details

Description

xxi, 343 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Publisher's description: There have been many studies of the women in the Gospels, but this is a new kind of book on the subject. Rather than offering a general overview of the Gospel women or focusing on a single theme, Richard Bauckham studies in great depth both the individual women who appear in the Gospels and the specific passages in which they appear. This unique approach reveals that there is much more to be known about such women than previous studies have assumed. Employing historical and literary readings of the biblical texts, Bauckham successfully captures the particularity of each woman he studies. An opening look at the Old Testament book of Ruth introduces the possibilities of reading Scripture from a woman's perspective. Other studies examine the women found in Matthew's genealogies, the prophet Anna, Mary of Clopas, Joanna, Salome, and the women featured in the Gospel resurrection narrative. A number of these women have never been the subject of deep theological enquiry. Unlike most recent books, Bauckham's work is not dominated by a feminist agenda. It does not presume in advance that the Gospel texts support patriarchal oppression, but it does venture some of the new and surprising possibilities that arise when the texts are read from the perspective of their female characters. Astute, sensitive to issues of gender, and written by one of today's leading theologians, Gospel Women will be of interest to a wide range of readers.

Subject

• Börngen, ..
• Bible. > Biography
• Women in the Bible

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Book of Ruth as a key to the gynocentric reading of scripture -- The Gentile foremothers of the Messiah -- Elizabeth and Mary in Luke 1: reading a gynocentric text intertextually -- Anna of the tribe of Asher -- Joanna the Apostle -- Mary of Clopas -- The two Salomes and the Secret Gospel of Mark -- The women and the resurrection: the credibility of their stories.

ISBN

0802849997 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001059216

OCLC

• 48661162
• SCSB-10971789

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library