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From the Margins 2 - Women of the New Testament and Their Afterlives (Hardcover, New)
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From the Margins 2 - Women of the New Testament and Their Afterlives (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Bible in the Modern World, No. 27
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Despite half a century of biblical interpretation that has sought
to put women back on the agenda of ancient texts (written largely
if not wholly by men), the dominant threads of narrative and
doctrine have-with the notable exception of Mary the mother of
Jesus-been focused on the lives and actions of men. Reception
history tells a different story. It is not the case that there is a
recovery of the lives of women hidden behind the pages of the New
Testament, for our information remains as sparse and tantalizing as
ever. Rather, the study of biblical women's 'afterlives' allows the
imaginative engagement of artists and writers to broaden the
horizon of interpretative expectations. Whether it is through
historical imagination or the grasp of different portrayals of
familiar biblical women (like Mary the mother of Jesus or Mary
Magdalene), the creative genius of these interpreters, neglected by
mainstream biblical textual scholars, only underlines the
importance of the biblical women, viewed in the light of their
afterlives. This volume has its origins in a project entitled
'Biblical Women and their Afterlives', conceived and developed by
the Centre for Reception History of the Bible at the University of
Oxford and organized together with colleagues from the Luce Program
in Scripture and Literary Arts at Boston University, USA. This
project resulted not only in the present interdisciplinary
collection of 21 essays (with their 66 illustrations) but also its
companion volume, From the Margins 1: Women of the Hebrew Bible and
their Afterlives, edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing
Stahlberg. The present volume includes the specially commissioned
poem 'To Cast a Stone' by the acclaimed Irish poet John F. Deane.
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