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1-2 Thessalonians (Hardcover)
Florence Morgan Gillman, Mary Ann Beavis, Hyeran Kim-Cragg; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Mary Ann Beavis, …
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R1,469
Discovery Miles 14 690
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When Paul wrote First Thessalonians shortly after the recipients
had accepted the Gospel, many significant issues had already arisen
among them. Of great concern was the social complexity, and even
persecution, they encountered because they had "turned to God from
idols" (1:9). The countercultural stance of those earliest
believers, and especially the impact that may have had for women,
is addressed throughout this commentary. While Paul directs no
remarks only to women in this letter, the ramifications of his
preaching on their daily lives emerge vibrantly from the
application of a feminist hermeneutics of suspicion to the text.
While Second Thessalonians is a shorter letter, it has been
disproportionately influential on Christian thought, especially
apocalyptic doctrine and the "Protestant work ethic." From a
feminist perspective, it is androcentric, rhetorically
manipulative, and even violent. In this commentary, Mary Ann Beavis
and HyeRan Kim-Cragg explore this text from many angles to expose
both constructive and destructive implications in the text.
Notably, they suggest a perspective on the "afflictions" endured by
the Thessalonian church that neither glorifies suffering nor wishes
for revenge but rather sees the divine presence in women's acts of
compassion and care in circumstances of extreme duress and
inhumanity. From the Wisdom Commentary series Feminist biblical
interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now makes
possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It is our
hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current feminist
biblical scholarship available in an accessible format to
ministers, preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid
all readers in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity,
equality, and justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to
provide feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly
engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that
explicitly mention women. A central concern is the world in front
of the text, that is, how the text is heard and appropriated by
women. At the same time, this commentary aims to be faithful to the
ancient text, to explicate the world behind the text, where
appropriate, and not impose contemporary questions onto the ancient
texts. The commentary addresses not only issues of gender (which
are primary in this project) but also those of power, authority,
ethnicity, racism, and classism, which all intersect. Each volume
incorporates diverse voices and differing interpretations from
different parts of the world, showing the importance of social
location in the process of interpretation and that there is no
single definitive feminist interpretation of a text.
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