A Feminist Companion to the Acts of the Apostles (2004 Levine, Blickenstaff), edited volume

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A Feminist Companion to the Acts of the Apostles (2004) is a volume edited by Amy-Jill Levine, and Marianne Blickenstaff.

Abstract

"The ninth volume in this series deals with the second part of Luke's narrative: the Acts of the Apostles. In this diverse collection, Janice Capel Anderson, James Arlandson, Virginia Burrus, Karen Torjesen, Beverly Gavanta, Musimbi Kanyoro, Dennis MacDonald, Shelly Matthews, Todd Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Robert Price, Barbara Reid, Scott Spencer, Jeffrey Staley, and Kathy Chambers utilize a variety of approaches to address issues of ethnicity and class, economic and social status, speech and silence, comedy and tragedy, construction of masculinity, mission and post-colonial response, literary influences both behind and in front of the text."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in London, England: T&T Clark, 2004.

Contents

  • Introduction / Amy-Jill Levine
  • Reading Tabitha: a feminist reception history / Janice Capel Anderson
  • What ever happened to those prophesying daughters? / Beverly Roberts Gaventa
  • Thinking mission in Africa / Musimbi Kanyoro
  • The power of the widows and how to suppress it (Acts 6.1-7) / Barbara E. Reid
  • 'Knock, knock. Who's there?' Acts 12.6-17 as a comedy of errors / Kathy Chambers
  • Rhoda and Penelope: two more cases of Luke's suppression of women / Robert M. Price
  • Lydia and her sisters as Lukan fictions / Dennis R. MacDonald
  • Elite women, public religion, and Christian propaganda in Acts 16 / Shelly Matthews
  • Women of 'the cloth' in Acts: sewing the word / F. Scott Spencer
  • Lifestyles of the rich and Christian: women, wealth, and social freedom / James M. Arlandson
  • Afterword to 'Household management and women's authority' / Virginia Burrus and Karen Torjesen
  • Changing woman: toward a postcolonial postfeminist interpretation of Acts 16.6-40 / Jeffrey L. Staley
  • Gendering violence: patterns of power and constructs of masculinity in the Acts of the Apostles / Todd Penner and Caroline vander Stichele.

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