Women in the New Testament (1998 Thurston), book

Women in the New Testament: Questions and Commentary (1998) is a book by Bonnie Bowman Thurston.

Abstract

"Bonnie Thurston examines the personalities, place, and power of women in the New Testament. She provides a cultural and religious context for them by briefly outlining the position of women in the Greco-Roman world. The aim is to reveal the ways in which early Christianity attempted to liberate people from oppression (particularly patriarchy), as well as to point out the places and ways in which the early Christian community compromised with the dominant society ... This is an insightful examination of the personalities, place, and power of women in the New Testament. Thurston gives the cultural and religious context of women in the Greco-Roman world and seeks to show ways in which early Christianity attempted to liberate people from patriarchic oppression and later compromised under the pressure of the dominant society. She looks specifically at the texts of Paul, Mark, John, and the Luke.--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Crossroad, 1998; with a Preface by Charles Talbert.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Cultural and Religious Backgrounds
• 3. The Pauline Letters
• 4. The Gospels: Mark and John
• 5. The Lukan Texts: Luke and Acts
• 6. The Deutero-Pauline Texts
• 7. Perplexities, Trajectories, and Conclusions

External links

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