The gendered palimpsest : women, writing, and representation in early Christianity

1. Verfasser: Haines-Eitzen, Kim
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford ; Oxford, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Women and books. Women writers, writing for women : authors, scribes, book-lenders, and patrons
  • Reading, not eating : women readers in late ancient Christian asceticism
  • Women's literature? : the case of the apocryphal acts of the apostles
  • Sexual/textual politics. Sinners and saints, silent and submissive? : the textual/sexual transformation of female characters in the New Testament and beyond
  • "First among all women" : the story of Thecla in textual transmission and iconographic remains
  • Contesting the ascetic language of Eros : textual fluidity in the apocryphal acts of the apostles
  • Conclusion.