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Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives

Autor Christy Cobb
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 mai 2019
This book examines slavery and gender through a feminist reading of narratives including female slaves in the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Christian texts. Through the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the voices of three enslaved female characters—the female slave who questions Peter in Luke 22, Rhoda in Acts 12, and the prophesying slave of Acts 16—are placed into dialogue with female slaves found in the Apocryphal Acts, ancient novels, classical texts, and images of enslaved women on funerary monuments. Although ancients typically distrusted the words of slaves, Christy Cobb argues that female slaves in Luke-Acts speak truth to power, even though their gender and status suggest that they cannot. In this Bakhtinian reading, female slaves become truth-tellers and their words confirm aspects of Lukan theology. This exegetical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary book is a substantial contribution to conversations about women and slaves in Luke-Acts and earlyChristian literature.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030056889
ISBN-10: 3030056880
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: XXIV, 247 p. 11 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction: (Re)Turning to Truth.- Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations: Bakhtin and Narratology.- Chapter 3: The Slave-Girl Who Sees: Luke 22:47-62.- Chapter 4: The Slave-Girl Who Answers: Acts 12:12-19.- Chapter 5: The Girl Who Prophesies: Acts 16:17-18.- Conclusion: When Truth Equals Freedom.

Recenzii

“This is a well-written and clear book that certainly contributes to modern biblical Scholarship … It also brings to the surface the complexity of the biblical narratives, their subtlety, and their capacity for almost endless analysis.” (Thomas M Kelly, Marriage, Families & Spirituality, Vol. 29 (1), 2023)

Notă biografică

Christy Cobb is Assistant Professor of Religion at Wingate University in North Carolina, USA.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book examines slavery and gender through a feminist reading of narratives including female slaves in the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Christian texts. Through the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the voices of three enslaved female characters—the female slave who questions Peter in Luke 22, Rhoda in Acts 12, and the prophesying slave of Acts 16—are placed into dialogue with female slaves found in the Apocryphal Acts, ancient novels, classical texts, and images of enslaved women on funerary monuments. Although ancients typically distrusted the words of slaves, Christy Cobb argues that female slaves in Luke-Acts speak truth to power, even though their gender and status suggest that they cannot. In this Bakhtinian reading, female slaves become truth-tellers and their words confirm aspects of Lukan theology. This exegetical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary book is a substantial contribution to conversations about women and slaves in Luke-Acts and earlyChristian literature.

Caracteristici

Focuses on characters that are often overlooked in biblical texts and scholarship: female slaves Analyzes female slave characters using literary theory, feminist hermeneutics, and intertextual reading Argues that Luke's female slaves are uniquely positioned to illuminate truth within the apostolic message