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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
throughout.>
This book extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure
historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations
between Acts and the diverse contemporaneous texts, writers, and
broader cultural phenomena in the second-century world of
Christians, Romans, Greeks, and Jews.
Originally published: Leiden; Boston: Brill, c2007.
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.
Almost all scholars look to Acts 6:1-8:3 as providing the bedrock
of early Christian tradition. The incident between the Hebrews and
the Hellenists are understood to reflect real historical and
theological problems in the early Jerusalem community,
demonstrating the Hellenist role as a historical bridge between
Jesus and Paul. Penner's study challenges the fundamental
assumptions of this approach. Penner emphasizes the rhetorical and
moral dimensions of ancient historiographical theory, especially
the centrality of narrative and plot, the use of vivid description,
the application of comparison using various type-scenes, and the
role of speeches in terms of characterization and the presentation
of narrative style. Todd Penner is the Assistant Professor of
Religion at Austin College and the co-editor with Caroline Vander
Stichele of Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman
Discourse.
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