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Originally published: Leiden; Boston: Brill, c2007.
In this book, Vander Stichele and Penner introduce their own
gender-critical approach to the New Testament and other early
Christian writings. Building on feminist and post-colonial
insights, they explore the importance of gender in both text and
context and discuss the diverse issues involved in interpretation
as they relate to gender, sex, and sexuality. The authors also set
out their methodology and highlight the various hermeneutical
issues involved, such as the complexity of gendered and sexed
identities in antiquity and the gap that exists between modern and
ancient conceptions thereof. They further illustrate their
gender-critical approach with concrete examples from the Acts of
the Apostles, the letters of Paul, and the Acts of Paul and Thecla,
in order to demonstrate how a gender-critical approach works in
practice. As such, this book is unique in terms of its range as
well as in the explicit methodological focus that is fostered
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The idea of creation and creativity is among the most powerful and
pervasive of metaphors bequeathed to the modern world by the
scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Twelve specialists
here explore the original sources and contemporary manifestations
of the theme in both high and low culture, from the Book of Genesis
to James Joyce's Ulysses, Children of Gebalawi by the Egyptian
novelist Naguib Mahfouz, and the Polish poetry of Wislawa
Szymborska, and to popular films, such as Bruce Almighty and
Animatrix, and animation films for children. Even current debates
on genetics and ecology and the public exhibition of plastinated
human bodies invoke these same themes, and make this volume a
topical contribution to cultural studies today. Jonneke Bekkenkamp,
Why on Earth? Creation and Creativity in the Vocabularies of
Patricia de Martelaere, Wislawa Szymborska and Julia Cameron
Athalya Brenner, Recreating the Biblical Creation for Western
Children: Provisional Reflections on Some Case Studies Wim Drees,
Vocabularies of Creation and Creativity in Debates on Genetics and
Ecology Jan Willem van Henten, Playing God in the Movies: Bruce
Almighty and the Preposterous History of Genesis 1:26-27 Alistair
Hunter, Creation out of (almost) Nothing or Does God Wear Genes?
Alison Jasper, Mysteries under Your Skin David Jasper, 'Down
through all Christian minstrelsy': Genesis, James Joyce and
Contemporary Vocabularies of Creation Louise Joy Lawrence, Tracing
Tricksters: Creation and Creativity in John's Gospel Richard van
Leeuwen, Creation and Revelation in Naguib Mahfouz's Novel Children
of Gebelawi Lloyd Ridgeon, Is the God of Islam an Evil Creator?
Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner, Terminatrix: Visualizing
the End of Creation in Animatrix
The idea of creation and creativity is among the most powerful and
pervasive of metaphors bequeathed to the modern world by the
scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Twelve specialists
here explore the original sources and contemporary manifestations
of the theme in both high and low culture, from the Book of Genesis
to James Joyce's Ulysses, Children of Gebalawi by the Egyptian
novelist Naguib Mahfouz, and the Polish poetry of Wislawa
Szymborska, and to popular films, such as Bruce Almighty and
Animatrix, and animation films for children. Even current debates
on genetics and ecology and the public exhibition of plastinated
human bodies invoke these same themes, and make this volume a
topical contribution to cultural studies today. Jonneke Bekkenkamp,
Why on Earth? Creation and Creativity in the Vocabularies of
Patricia de Martelaere, Wislawa Szymborska and Julia Cameron
Athalya Brenner, Recreating the Biblical Creation for Western
Children: Provisional Reflections on Some Case Studies Wim Drees,
Vocabularies of Creation and Creativity in Debates on Genetics and
Ecology Jan Willem van Henten, Playing God in the Movies: Bruce
Almighty and the Preposterous History of Genesis 1:26-27 Alistair
Hunter, Creation out of (almost) Nothing or Does God Wear Genes?
Alison Jasper, Mysteries under Your Skin David Jasper, 'Down
through all Christian minstrelsy': Genesis, James Joyce and
Contemporary Vocabularies of Creation Louise Joy Lawrence, Tracing
Tricksters: Creation and Creativity in John's Gospel Richard van
Leeuwen, Creation and Revelation in Naguib Mahfouz's Novel Children
of Gebelawi Lloyd Ridgeon, Is the God of Islam an Evil Creator?
Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner, Terminatrix: Visualizing
the End of Creation in Animatrix
This is an introduction to feminist and gender-critical
perspectives on the New Testament and other early Christian
writings.In this introductory book, Vander Stichele and Penner
outline a gender-critical approach to the New Testament and discuss
the issues involved. Building on feminist analysis,
gender-criticism explores the place of both women and men in,
behind, and in front of the text, but also understands sexual
identities as part and parcel of the study of gender identities in
both text and context, assessing the relative configuration of such
identities through their broader, rhetorical, ideological, and
socio-cultural contexts in the ancient (and modern) worlds.The
authors clearly set out the methodology and hermeneutical issues
and then give concrete examples of how gender-critical exegesis
affects the reading of texts. The New Testament is not considered
in isolation, rather the book deals with early Christian Literature
in a more general sense, in that the issues discussed are related
to the study of that broad body of literature and concrete examples
either come from those texts or tackle issues at stake in them.
This book is unique in terms of its range as well as in the
explicit methodological focus that is fostered. Furthermore, it is
a joint project of scholars from different cultural backgrounds,
but with a similar interest and complementary skills.
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