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Women and Marriage in Paul and His Early Interpreters.
Beattie undertakes a comparative survey of the treatment of women and marriage in three different kinds of text: an authentic Pauline letter (namely 1 Corinthians); the deutero-Pauline literature (Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles); and some tractates from the Nag Hammadi library (givi...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2005.
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| Series: | Library of New Testament studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: WOMEN AND MARRIAGE IN PAUL AND HIS EARLY INTERPRETERS; Theoretical Perspective: ''The Pragmatist''s Progress''; Redescribing ''Gnosticism''; The Selection of Nag Hammadi Texts; PART I: PAUL; Chapter 1 MARRIAGE IN 1 CORINTHIANS; The Context for Paul''s Teaching on Marriage; 7.1-5: Behaviour in Marriage; 7.6-9: Paul''s Preference for Celibacy; 7.10-16: Divorce; 7.17-24: ''Remain as you are''; 7.25-35: Marriage as a Source of Anxiety; 7.36-40: The Betrothed and the Widowed; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 2 WOMEN IN 1 CORINTHIANS.
- A Note on the Authenticity of 11.2-1611.2: Evoking a Favourable Response; 11.3: Headship: the Source of Authority; 11.4-6: (Un)covering the Head and Shaming the ''Head''; 11.7-9: The Argument from Creation; 11.10: The Woman''s Authority and the Angels; 11.11-12: A Cautionary Note; 11.13-16: ''Judge for yourselves''?; 11.2-16: Overall Assessment; 14.34-35: The Question of Authenticity; 14.33b-35: The Veil of Silence; 14.33b-40 and 11.2-16: Making Sense of the Contradiction; 14.36-40: The Concluding Challenge; Concluding Remarks; PART II: DEUTERO-PAULINE LETTERS.
- Chapter 3 MARRIAGE IN THE DEUTERO-PAULINE LITERATURE: COLOSSIANS AND EPHESIANS''Absent in the flesh but present in spirit'': Colossians as Pseudepigraphy; ''Philosophy and empty deceit'': The Opponents in Colossians; ''As is fitting in the Lord'': Marriage in Colossians; The Context of Ephesians; Marriage as an Image of Salvation in Ephesians 5.21-33; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4 WOMEN IN THE DEUTERO-PAULINE LITERATURE: THE PASTORAL EPISTLES; The Question of Authorship; (False) Teaching and the Purpose of the Pastorals; 1 Timothy 2.9-15: ''I do not permit a woman to teach . . .''
- 1 Timothy 5.3-16: ''Honour widows who are really widows''Concluding Remarks; PART III: NAG HAMMADI; Chapter 5 MARRIAGE IN THE NAG HAMMADI TEXTS; The Stereotype of ''Gnostic'' Morality; ''Libertinism''; ''Asceticism''; ''Truth in types and images'': The Gospel of Philip on Language and Imagery; ''The mystery of marriage'' in the Gospel of Philip; Marriage as Salvation in the Exegesis on the Soul; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 6 WOMEN AND FEMININE IMAGERY IN THE NAG HAMMADI TEXTS; Women and ''Heresy''; Reading Genesis in the Hypos tasis of the Archons; ''Protest Exegesis''?
- Male and Female in the Gospel of ThomasMary Magdalene in the Gospel of Thomas and Other ''Gnostic'' Texts; Conclusion: REDESCRIBING PAUL; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.