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This book is a collection of essays that contribute to the debate
on the contextual interpretation of scripture from an African
context. The book engages biblical narratives from the lived
experiences of Africans, insisting that meaning is attained only
when people bring their daily experiences into their reading of
scripture. The contributors examine the interaction of African
peoples with the Bible in juxtaposition with the forces of
colonialism, neocolonialism, patriarchy, war, and bad governance.
This book gives voice to the lived experiences of African peoples
in their quest for full expression of the profundity of their union
with God by aiding them to unmask inhumanity and indignity.
How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of
women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art
historical studies recover women's religious perspectives and
experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The
authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such
questions in fascinating, new case studies of women and ancient
religions in the Near East and Mediterranean world. They cover a
broad historical, geographic, and religious spectrum as they
explore women's lives from the time of ancient Egypt in the second
millennium BCE into the early medieval period, from the Syrian
Desert to Western Europe, in the religious traditions of Egypt,
Canaan, Greece, Rome, ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early
Christianity. Working at the intersections of religion,
archaeology, art history, and women's history, these authors make
fresh contributions to interdisciplinary studies, and their essays
will be of interest to students and scholars across these academic
fields.
In a time when the ordination of women is an ongoing and
passionate debate, the study of women's ministry in the early
church is a timely and significant one. There is much evidence from
documents, doctrine, and artifacts that supports the acceptance of
women as presbyters and deacons in the early church. While this
evidence has been published previously, it has never before
appeared in one complete English-language collection.
With this book, church historians Kevin Madigan and Carolyn
Osiek present fully translated literary, epigraphical, and
canonical references to women in early church offices. Through
these documents, Madigan and Osiek seek to understand who these
women were and how they related to and were received by, the church
through the sixth century. They chart women's participation in
church office and their eventual exclusion from its leadership
roles. The editors introduce each document with a detailed headnote
that contextualizes the text and discusses specific issues of
interpretation and meaning. They also provide bibliographical notes
and cross-reference original texts. Madigan and Osiek assemble
relevant material from both Western and Eastern Christendom.
Description: Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to
congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to
scholarship and teaching. Topics range from the life of early
Christian house churches to the kinds of challenges that early
Christians needed to negotiate in their artistic and literary
worlds as they established their own identity. Contributors Edward
Adams Frederick E Brenk Warren Carter John R. Clarke Everett
Ferguson John T. Fitzgerald Richard A. Freund Ronald F. Hock Robin
M. Jensen Davina C. Lopez Margaret Y. MacDonald Abraham J. Malherbe
Aliou Cisse Niang Peter Oakes Todd Penner Leo G. Perdue Turid
Karlsen Seim Dennis E. Smith Yancy W. Smith Stephen V. Sprinkle Hal
Taussig Oliver Larry Yarbrough Endorsements: ""From captivating
glimpses into the microcosm of ancient households to the broader
question of a hermeneutics of images, from Christian house churches
to visual representations and archeology in the interaction with
texts-this is a strikingly rich collection of stimulating essays
that each in their own way illustrate the breadth and fecundity of
David Balch's scholarship, as well as his great capacity to impel
multi-faceted questions and inquiries that are re-defining New
Testament Studies."" --Brigitte Kahl Union Theological Seminary
""Richly decorated with images, this remarkably diverse yet unified
collection of twenty-one essays serves up a fitting tribute to
David Lee Balch. As David Balch has noted throughout his research
career, material culture, visual and constructed worlds, and texts
are deliberate acts of communication and persuasion. Thus,
convinced that archaeology, art, literary documents, and the
iconography of the Greeks and Romans situate text in context, each
of the essayists picks up on these social-cultural elements and
covers a stunning variety of texts, topics, representative artistic
images, sculptures, reliefs, and epigraphic remains. Stimulating,
provocative, and challenging are the operative words for this
festschrift and the person to whom it gives honor."" --Dietmar
Neufeld University of British Columbia ""Text, Image, and
Christians in the Greco-Roman World provides a vivid mosaic of
Christian ritual and regalia, reimagined and reconstructed through
the lenses of eminent scholars, and serves as a fitting festschrift
honoring David Balch's myriad interests in the relationships
between early Christianity and the dominant cultural matrix of
Imperial Rome."" --Laurie Brink, OP Catholic Theological Union
""David Balch's academic interests in households, archaeology,
architecture, and visual representation in antiquity are the
catalyst for this engaging collection of studies honoring him . . .
Anyone interested in the social world of early Christianity at any
level will find this book immensely rewarding and satisfying.""
--Dennis Duling Canisius College, Emeritus About the
Contributor(s): Aliou Cisse Niang is Assistant Professor of New
Testament at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is the author
of Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal. Carolyn Osiek is
Charles Fischer Catholic Professor of New Testament Emerita at
Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University, Fort Worth,
Texas. She is now an archivist in St. Louis. She is the author,
co-author, and editor of numerous works, including A Woman's Place:
Houses Churches in Earliest Christianity (with Margaret Y.
MacDonald and Janet H. Tulloch).
This focused look at women in the household context discusses the
importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives
of early Christian women. Several aspects of women's everyday
existence are investigated, including the lives of wives, widows,
women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household
leaders, and teachers. In addition, several key themes emerge:
hospitality, dining practices, and the extent of female
segregation.
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