University Press of America
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978-0-7618-4677-2 • Paperback • December 2009 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
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Elizabeth A. McCabe is a doctoral candidate at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received an M.A. in biblical studies at Cincinnati Christian University with a dual concentration in Old Testament and New Testament. She is the author of the 2008 book, An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies. She has also recently been appointed co-chair of "Gender Studies and the Bible" in the Midwest Society of Biblical Literature.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 About the Contributors
Chapter 5 Abbreviations
Chapter 6 1. Answers to Unresolved Questions: A Closer Look at Eve and Adam in Genesis 2-3
Chapter 7 2. A Biological Consideration for the Extended Period of Impurity after the Birth of a Daughter in Ancient Israel
Chapter 8 3. Rahab in Rehab: Christian Interpretation of the Madame from Jericho
Chapter 9 4. Achsah, the Raped Pîlege? , and the Book of Judges
Chapter 10 5. You are a Bible Child: Exploring the Lives of Children and Mothers through the Elisha Cycle
Chapter 11 6. Refusing the Syrophoenician Woman: The Disparate Perspectives of Jesus, Mark, and Feminist Critiques
Chapter 12 7. Blessing the First Birth: A Feminist Critical Reading of Like 11:27-28
Chapter 13 8. A Reevaluation of Phoebe in Romans 16:1-2 as a Diakonos and Prostatis: Exposing the Inaccuracies of English Translations
Chapter 14 9. Junia: Woman and Apostle
Chapter 15 10. In Search of the Voice of Women in the Churches: Revisiting the Command to Silence Women in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Chapter 16 11. Bad Girls or Good Ascetics? The Gynaikaria of the Pastoral Epistles
This anthology is unusual in that it contains essays on women in the biblical world that span both Old and New Testament perspectives. As such, it is a rare and welcome resource for courses that survey the roles and status of women as portrayed in the Christian Bible.
— Mary Ann Beavis, professor and head, Department of Religion and Culture, St. Thomas More College, The University of Saskatchewan; co-chair for Wo
This is a fine collection of essays that brings together some of the best contemporary thinking and scholarship on interpretation of key biblical passages about women from both Testaments. Each chapter reviews faithfully the scholarship on its subject and advances the thinking on it. This is an excellent way to update on some of the latest in feminist biblical scholarship.
— Carolyn Osiek, Charles Fischer Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School
She…presents a strong argument that prostatis should be understood in the context of leadership…. The diversity of this collection is a welcome feature. Articles span both testaments and cover topics that range from the much-discussed to lesser-traveled paths. The result is a volume that will have wide appeal at both scholarly and popular levels.
— Catholic Biblical Quarterly