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Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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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 early Christian literature.
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