Dancing girls, loose ladies, and women of the cloth : the women in Jesus' life /
The women in Jesus' life are a raucous and rowdy bunch, including "riotous" foremothers, "loose women," and "distressed daughters of Israel." Reading these new ways of interpreting women in the Gospels, male New Testament scholars have discovered liberating perspec...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Continuum,
©2004.
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| Series: | New Testament guides.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | The women in Jesus' life are a raucous and rowdy bunch, including "riotous" foremothers, "loose women," and "distressed daughters of Israel." Reading these new ways of interpreting women in the Gospels, male New Testament scholars have discovered liberating perspectives. In seven scintillating studies, Spencer explores among others the genealogy of Matthew's Gospel to discover the riotous yet righteous nature of Jesus' foremothers, slave girls and prophetic daughters in Luke-Acts, and women leading men in the Gospel of Mark 5-7. Scott Spencer, a virtuoso young New Testament scholar, provides h |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441140234 1441140239 1283205750 9781283205757 |
