The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality

Benjamin H. Dunning (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

736 Seiten

2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-021339-8 (ISBN)

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament provides a roadmap to the relevant problems, debates, and issues that animate the study of sex, gender, sexuality, and sexual difference in early Christianity. Leading scholars in the field offer original contributions by way of synthesis, critical interrogation, and proposals for future research trajectories.

Over several decades, scholarship in New Testament and early Christianity has drawn attention both to the ways in which ancient Mediterranean conceptions of embodiment, sexual difference, and desire were fundamentally different from modern ones and also to important lines of genealogical connection between the past and the present. The result is that the study of "gender" and "sexuality" in early Christianity has become an increasingly complex undertaking. This is a complexity produced not only by the intricacies of conflicting historical data, but also by historicizing approaches that query the very terms of analysis whereby we inquire into these questions in the first place. Yet at the same time, recent work on these topics has produced a rich and nuanced body of scholarly literature that has contributed substantially to our understanding of early Christian history and also proved relevant to ongoing theological and social debates. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament provides a roadmap to this lively scholarly landscape, introducing both students and other scholars to the relevant problems, debates, and issues. Leading scholars in the field offer original contributions by way of synthesis, critical interrogation, and proposals for future questions, hypotheses, and research trajectories.

Benjamin H. Dunning earned a PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard University and then joined the Fordham faculty in 2006.He teaches primarily in the areas of Christianity in Antiquity, critical theory, and gender and sexuality studies. He currently chairs the Board of Directors for Fordham University Press and serves an Associate Editor for the Journal of Early Christian Studies.

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1. The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the History of Gender and Sexuality
Benjamin H. Dunning

PART I. THEORY AND METHOD

2. Feminist Biblical Scholarship
Katherine A. Shaner

3. Reconstructing Women's History in Antiquity
Ross S. Kraemer

4. Material Culture and Historical Analysis
Laura Salah Nasrallah

5. Masculinity Studies
Colleen M. Conway

6. Queer Theory
Stephen D. Moore

7. Gender and Sexuality in Postcolonial Perspective
M. Adryael Tong

8. Who Is The Text? The Gendered and Racialized New Testament
Yii-Jan Lin

9. "She Did That!": Female Agency in New Testament Texts--A Womanist Response
Shanell T. Smith

10. LGBTIQ Strategies of Interpretation
Joseph A. Marchal

11. Posthumanism
Denise Kimber Buell

PART II. SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS

12. Jewish Women's Life and Practice in the World of the New Testament
Tal Ilan

13. Hellenistic Philosophy and Literature
David E. Fredrickson

14. Roman Imperial Culture
Davina C. Lopez

PART III. TEXTS

15. Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period
Karina Martin Hogan

16. Gospels and Acts
Amy-Jill Levine

17. Pauline Letters
Jorunn Økland

18. General Epistles
Timothy Luckritz Marquis

19. Revelation
Lynn R. Huber

20. Nag Hammadi and Related Literature
Anne McGuire

21. Apocryphal Acts
Jennifer Eyl

PART IV. PARADIGMATIC FIGURES

22. Jesus
Karen L. King

23. Mary Magdalene
Ann Graham Brock

24. Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Mary F. Foskett

25. Sophia
Jonathan Cahana

26. Thecla
Ross S. Kraemer

PART V. TOPICS

27. Leadership Roles and Early Christian Communities
Carolyn Osiek

28. Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce
Jennifer W. Knust

29. Procreation, Children, and Family
Robert H. Von Thaden, Jr.

30. Celibacy and Virginity
B. Diane Lipsett

31. Same-Sex Relations
Benjamin H. Dunning

32. Sexual Slander
Susanna Drake

33. Violence
Kimberly B. Stratton

34. Slavery and Sexual Availability
Jennifer A. Glancy

35. Prostitution
Carly Daniel-Hughes

36. The Resurrection Body
Taylor G. Petrey

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Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 251 mm
Gewicht	1406 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-021339-6 / 0190213396
ISBN-13	978-0-19-021339-8 / 9780190213398
Zustand	Neuware