Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches (2010 Ahearne-Kroll, Holloway, Kelhoffer), edited volume
Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches (2010) is a volume edited by Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, Paul A. Holloway, and James A. Kelhoffer.
Abstract
"Following a scholarly conference given in honor of Adela Yarbro Collins, this collection of essays offers focused studies on the wide range of ways that women and gender contribute to the religious landscape of the ancient world. Experts in Greek and Roman religions, Early Christianity, Ancient Judaism, and Ancient Christianity engage in literary, social, historical, and cultural analysis of various ancient texts, inscriptions, social phenomena, and cultic activity. These studies continue the welcomed trend in scholarship that expands the social location of women in ancient Mediterranean religion to include the public sphere and consciousness. The result is an important and lively book that deepens the understanding of ancient religion as a whole. With contributions by:Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll, Loveday Alexander, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Stephen J. Davis, Robert Doran, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Carin M. C. Green, Fritz Graf, Jan Willem van Henten, Paul A. Holloway, Annette B. Huizenga, Jeremy F. Hultin, Sarah Iles Johnston, James A. Kelhoffer, Judith L. Kovacs, Outi Lehtipuu, Matt Jackson-McCabe, Candida R. Moss, Christopher N. Mount, Susan E. Myers, Clare K. Rothschild, Turid Karlsen Seim."--Publisher description.
Editions
Published in Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2010 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 263).
Contents
Narrative. The Virgin and the Goddess : women and religion in the Greek romance / Loveday Alexander -- The portrayal of Aseneth in Joseph and Aseneth : women's religious experience in antiquity and the limitations of ancient narratives / Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll -- Roman imperial family values and the Gospel of Mark : the divorce sayings (Mark 10:2-12) / Mary Rose D'Angelo -- A tale of two Markan characterizations : the exemplary woman who anointed Jesus' body for burial (14:3-9) and the silent trio who fled the empty tomb (16:1-8) / James A. Kelhoffer -- Motherhood and the making of fathers in antiquity : contextualizing genetics in the Gospel of John / Turid Karlsen Seim -- Embryology, plant biology, and divine generation in the Fourth Gospel / Clare K. Rothschild -- Blaming the women : women at Herod's court in Josephus' Jewish antiquities 15.23-231 / Jan Willem van Henten -- To bear or not to bear : the argument for abstinence in the Greek Gospel of the Egyptians / Robert Doran -- Blood ties : martyrdom, motherhood, and family in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas / Candida R. Moss -- A new web for Arachne and a new veil for the temple : women and weaving from Athena to the Virgin Mary / Jeremy F. Hultin.
Ritual. Victimology, or, How to blame someone for an untimely death / Fritz Graf -- Blaming the witch : some reflections upon unexpected death / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III -- Forget me not : memory and the female subject in ancient binding spells / Stephen J. Davis -- Women and Eros in Greek magic and the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Matt Jackson-McCabe -- Holding the line : women, ritual, and the protection of Rome / Carin M.C. Green.
Logos. Gender and grief : Seneca's Ad Marciam and Ad Helviam matrem / Paul A. Holloway -- Religious experience, the religion of Paul, and women in the Pauline churches / Christopher N. Mount -- The example of Thecla and the example(s) of Paul : disputing women's roles in early Christianity / Outi Lehtipuu -- Sophrosyne for women in Pythagorean texts / Annette Bourland Huizenga -- Becoming the perfect man : Clement of Alexandria on the philosophical life of women / Judith L. Kovacs -- The Spirit as Mother in early Syriac-speaking Christianity / Susan E. Myers.