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Hebrews (Hardcover)
Mary Ann Beavis, Hyeran Kim-Cragg; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Linda M. Maloney; Contributions by Marie Annharte Baker, …
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Hebrews seems like unpromising material for feminist
interpretation, although it is the only New Testament writing for
which female authorship has been seriously posited. Mary Ann Beavis
and HyeRan Kim-Cragg highlight the similarities between Hebrews and
the book of Wisdom/Sophia, which share cosmological, ethical,
historical, and sapiential themes, revealing that Hebrews is in
fact a submerged tradition of Sophia-Wisdom. They also tackle the
sacrificial Christology of Hebrews, concluding that in its ancient
context, far from symbolizing suffering and abjection, sacrifice
was understood as celebratory and relational. Contributions from
Filipina (Maricel and Marilou Ibita), Jewish (Justin Jaron Lewis),
historical (Nancy Calvert-Koyzis), and First Nations (Marie
Annharte Baker) perspectives bring additional scholarly, cultural,
religious, and experiential wisdom to the commentary. 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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Acts of the Apostles (Hardcover)
Linda M. Maloney, Ivoni Richter Reimer; Afterword by Willie James Jennings; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Mary Ann Beavis
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The Acts of the Apostles, the earliest work of its kind to have
survived from Christian antiquity, is not "history" in the modern
sense, nor is it about what we call "the church." Written at least
half a century after the time it describes, it is a portrait of the
Movement of Jesus' followers as it developed between 30 and 70 CE.
More important, it is a depiction of the Movement of what Jesus
wanted: the inbreaking of the reign of God. In this commentary,
Linda Maloney, Ivoni Richter Reimer, and a host of other
contributing voices look at what the text does and does not say
about the roles of the original members of the Movement in bringing
it toward fruition, with a special focus on those marginalized by
society, many of them women. The author of Acts wrote for followers
of Jesus in the second century and beyond, contending against those
who wanted to break from the community of Israel and offering hope
against hope, like Israel's prophets before him.
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John 1-10 (Hardcover, 44A)
Mary L Coloe; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Mary Ann Beavis
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2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention in scripture:
academic studies Teaching and researching the Gospel of John for
thirty years has led author Mary L. Coloe to an awareness of the
importance of the wisdom literature to make sense of Johannine
theology, language, and symbolism: in the prologue, with Nicodemus,
in the Bread of Life discourse, with Mary and Lazarus, and in the
culminating "Hour." She also shows how the late Second Temple
theology expressed in the books of Sirach and Wisdom, considered
deuterocanonical and omitted from some Bible editions, are
essential intertexts. Only the book of Wisdom speaks of "the reign
of God" (Wis 10:10), "eternity life" (Wis 5:15), and the ambrosia
maintaining angelic life (Wis 19:21)-all concepts found in John's
Gospel. While the Gospel explicitly states the Logos was enfleshed
in Jesus, this is also true of Sophia. Coloe makes the case that
Jesus's words and deeds embody Sophia throughoutthe narrative. At
the beginning of each chapter Coloe provides text from the later
wisdom books that resonate with the Gospel passage, drawing Sophia
out of the shadows.
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2 Corinthians (Hardcover)
Antoinette Clark Wire; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Mary Ann Beavis
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2020 Catholic Press Association honorable mention award for gender
issues, inclusion in the church When 2 Corinthians is read as a
whole in the early manuscripts, we hear a distraught and defensive
Paul, struggling to recover the respect of the Corinthians that he
assumed in 1 Corinthians. Scholars have supplied a recent visit
gone awry to explain this, but Wire argues that the Corinthians
have not kept the restrictions Paul laid down in his earlier
letter. It is Paul who has changed. No longer able to demand that
they imitate his weakness as he embodies Jesus' death, he concedes
and even celebrates that they embody Jesus' power and life and
thereby demonstrate the effectiveness of his work among them. With
special attention to the women in Corinth who pray and prophesy,
Wire looks at each part of 2 Corinthians through three feminist
lenses: a broad focus on all bodies within the tensions of the
ecosystem as Paul sees it; a mid-range focus on the social,
political, and economic setting; and a precise focus on his
argument as evidence of an interaction between Paul and the
Corinthians. When Paul ends with "The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the love of God, and the partnership of the Holy Spirit,"
the Corinthians have pressed him to reshape his message from "yes
but" and "no" to "yes," from a tenacity of qualifiers and
subordinations to an overflow of encouragements.
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What Does the Bible Say? (Hardcover)
Mary Ann Beavis, Hyeran Kim-Cragg; Foreword by Catherine Faith MacLean
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Mark (Paperback, New ed.)
Mary Ann Beavis, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
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In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, Mary Ann
Beavis examines cultural context and theological meaning in Mark.
Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian
readers by
- attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the
text employs
- showing how the text shapes theological convictions and moral
habits
- commenting on the final, canonical form of each New Testament
book
- focusing on the cultural, literary, and theological settings of
the text
- making judicious use of maps, photos, and sidebars in a
reader-friendly format
Students, pastors, and other readers will appreciate the insights
that Beavis derives from interrogating the text through multiple
perspectives.
This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS),
the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and
Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis's
study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived
religious experience of CGS practitioners, drawing on interviews of
over 100 women who self-identify as combining Christianity and
Goddess spirituality. Although CGS also has implications for
Goddess Spirituality and related traditions (e.g., Neopaganism,
Wicca), here, CGS is considered primarily as a phenomenon within
Christianity. However, the study also shows that the fusion of
Christian and Goddess spiritualties has had an impact on
non-Christian feminist spirituality, since Goddess-worshippers have
often constructed Christianity as the diametrical opposite and
enemy of the Goddess, to the point that some refuse to admit the
possibility that CGS is a valid spiritual path, or that it is even
possible. In addition, biblical, Jewish and Christian images of the
divine such as Sophia, Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and even Mary
Magdalene, have found their way into the "Pagan" Goddess pantheon.
The main themes of the study include: overlaps and differences
between Christian feminist theology and CGS; the routes to CGS for
individual practitioners, and their beliefs, practices and
experiences; proto-denominational classifications ("spiritual
paths") within CGS; CGS thealogy (Christian discourse about the
female divine); and the future of CGS in social scientific and
ecclesiological context. Christian Goddess Spirituality will be of
interest to scholars of religion, especially those with interests
in women and religion, feminist spiritualities, feminist
theology/thealogy, alternative spiritualities, New Religious
Movements, and emergent Christianities.
This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS),
the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and
Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis's
study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived
religious experience of CGS practitioners, drawing on interviews of
over 100 women who self-identify as combining Christianity and
Goddess spirituality. Although CGS also has implications for
Goddess Spirituality and related traditions (e.g., Neopaganism,
Wicca), here, CGS is considered primarily as a phenomenon within
Christianity. However, the study also shows that the fusion of
Christian and Goddess spiritualties has had an impact on
non-Christian feminist spirituality, since Goddess-worshippers have
often constructed Christianity as the diametrical opposite and
enemy of the Goddess, to the point that some refuse to admit the
possibility that CGS is a valid spiritual path, or that it is even
possible. In addition, biblical, Jewish and Christian images of the
divine such as Sophia, Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and even Mary
Magdalene, have found their way into the "Pagan" Goddess pantheon.
The main themes of the study include: overlaps and differences
between Christian feminist theology and CGS; the routes to CGS for
individual practitioners, and their beliefs, practices and
experiences; proto-denominational classifications ("spiritual
paths") within CGS; CGS thealogy (Christian discourse about the
female divine); and the future of CGS in social scientific and
ecclesiological context. Christian Goddess Spirituality will be of
interest to scholars of religion, especially those with interests
in women and religion, feminist spiritualities, feminist
theology/thealogy, alternative spiritualities, New Religious
Movements, and emergent Christianities.
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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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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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Philippians, Colossians, Philemon (Hardcover)
Elsa Tamez, Cynthia Briggs-Kittredge, Claire Miller Colombo, Alicia J. Batten; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by …
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Philippians lends itself to a political-ideological reading. To
take into account that the document is a writing from prison, and
to read it from a political-religious and feminist perspective
using new language, helps to re-create the letter as if it were a
new document. In this analysis Elsa Tamez endeavors to utilize
non-patriarchal, inclusive language, which helps us to see the
contents of the letter with different eyes. Cynthia Briggs
Kittredge and Claire Miller Colombo argue that Colossians's
contradictions and complications provide opportunities for entering
imaginatively into the world of first-century Christian women and
men. Rather than try to resolve the controversial
portions-including the household code-they read the letter's
tensions as evidence of lively conversation around key theological,
spiritual, and social issues of the time. Taking into account
historical, structural, and rhetorical dimensions of Philemon,
Alicia J. Batten argues against the "runaway slave" hypothesis that
has so dominated the interpretation of this letter. Paul asks that
Onesimus be treated well, but the commentary takes seriously the
fact that we never hear what Onesimus's wishes may have been.
Slaves throughout history have had similar experiences, as have
many women. Like Onesimus, their lives and futures remain in the
hands of others, whether those others seek good or ill. 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.
This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights
into various unsolved mysteries associated with Mary Magdalene,
Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of
Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as seen in the
portrayal of these women as community leaders, prophets, apostles
and priests. These traditions also are often inter-religious,
echoing themes back to Miriam in the Hebrew Bible as well as
forward to Maryam in the Qur'an. The chapters explore questions
such as: which biblical Mary did the author of the Gospel of Mary
intend to portray-Magdalene, Mother, or neither? Why did some
writers depict Mary of Nazareth as a priest? Were extracanonical
scriptures featuring Mary more influential than the canonical
gospels on the depiction of Maryam in the Qur'an? Contributors dig
deep into literature, iconography, and archaeology to offer cutting
edge research under three overarching topics. The first section
examines the question of "which Mary?" and illustrates how some
ancient authors (and contemporary scholars) may have conflated the
biblical Marys. The second section focuses on Mary of Nazareth, and
includes research related to the portrayal of Mary the Mother of
Jesus as a Eucharistic priest. The final section, "Recovering
Receptions of Mary in Art, Archeology, and Literature," explores
how artists and authors have engaged with one or more of the Marys,
from the early Christian era through to medieval and modern times.
Mark 4.11-12, the 'parable theory' passage, has probably been
commented upon more often than any other section of Mark's Gospel.
The saying has usually been interpreted as an authentic utterance
of Jesus, which was subsequently misunderstood and misinterpreted
by early Christians - including the evangelist Mark. The precise
meaning of the mystery logion in the ministry of Jesus is
notoriously elusive, since we have no information about the context
in which it was spoken, or about the audience to which it was
addressed. Much more, however, can be known about the
interpretative context of the logion in Mark, since it is
surrounded by passages that seem to echo the mystery saying. This
study examines the complex web of literary relationships between
Mark 4.11-12 and the Gospel as a whole. Dr Beavis's fresh
interpretation is unusual in that she undertakes to interpret the
Gospel of Mark, as far as possible, from the point of view of its
'historical' readers/audience. Chapters 1 and 2 of the book attempt
to describe the 'community' for which the Gospel was written, and
in the rest of the book, this socio-cultural setting is used to
investigate the meaning of the mystery saying for the original
readers/hearers of Mark.
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What Does the Bible Say? (Paperback)
Mary Ann Beavis, Hyeran Kim-Cragg; Foreword by Catherine Faith MacLean
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Consumers of culture in the modern world - whether high culture or
popular culture - discover before long that the Bible, its tales
and its characters and its idioms, is woven into the culture. Most
of us wish we knew the Bible better, and are often at a loss to
know what the biblical source or reference is to phrases or ideas
we encounter. The editors of this unique volume have seen the need
for an easy-to-use reference guide for those needing to track down
information on characters, phrases, places, and concepts
originating in the Bible. They assembled 200 scholars to write 1000
encyclopaedia entries on such biblical backgrounds to Western
culture. The contributors to the volume have in mind readers
without the specialization of formal biblical studies, and even
those not familiar with the Bible's basic content. The presentation
is twofold: entries begin with discussion of biblical terms in
their original settings, and then illustrate occasions when those
terms reappear in later cultural artefacts. This volume is then a
dictionary of the reception of the Bible in later Western artistic
and intellectual expression. There is a great deal here to explore
and discover; turning these pages will prove illuminating not only
as an introduction to biblical literature but also as a
demonstration of the Bible's persistent contributions to our
cultural heritage.
A collection of feminist interpretations of parables about women
and women's work. The authors, who include Pheme Perkins, Barbara
Reid and Adele Reinhartz, aim to fill a gap in the scholarly
literature on parables, bringing to life vignettes from ancient
Mediterranean women's lives and offering insights into the place of
women in the ministry of Jesus, the early church, and Christian
theology. This volume is designed as a resource for scholarship,
teaching and preaching.
This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights
into various unsolved mysteries associated with Mary Magdalene,
Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Miriam the sister of
Moses. Mariamic traditions are often interconnected, as seen in the
portrayal of these women as community leaders, prophets, apostles
and priests. These traditions also are often inter-religious,
echoing themes back to Miriam in the Hebrew Bible as well as
forward to Maryam in the Qur'an. The chapters explore questions
such as: which biblical Mary did the author of the Gospel of Mary
intend to portray-Magdalene, Mother, or neither? Why did some
writers depict Mary of Nazareth as a priest? Were extracanonical
scriptures featuring Mary more influential than the canonical
gospels on the depiction of Maryam in the Qur'an? Contributors dig
deep into literature, iconography, and archaeology to offer cutting
edge research under three overarching topics. The first section
examines the question of "which Mary?" and illustrates how some
ancient authors (and contemporary scholars) may have conflated the
biblical Marys. The second section focuses on Mary of Nazareth, and
includes research related to the portrayal of Mary the Mother of
Jesus as a Eucharistic priest. The final section, "Recovering
Receptions of Mary in Art, Archeology, and Literature," explores
how artists and authors have engaged with one or more of the Marys,
from the early Christian era through to medieval and modern times.
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