Mary and Early Christian Women

Kateusz, Ally

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“…Of the female characters in the Gospels and Acts, perhaps the most explored in feminist circles is Mary, the mother of Jesus. Several works have been dedicated to exploring the mother of Christ (Gaventa and Rigby 2003;Levine and Robbins 2005b;Reiprich 2008;Price 2016;Maunder 2019;Kateusz 2019) or sorting out which of the multiple Marys named in the New Testament might correspond with this figure (F. S. Jones 2002;Good 2005;Beavis and Kateusz 2020). Given Mary's on-going centrality as a figure of religious devotion, this focus is, perhaps, not surprising.…”

Section: Feminist Approaches To the Gospels And Actsmentioning

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Recent Feminist Approaches to Interpreting the New Testament

Howard

2021

Currents in Biblical Research

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This article provides an overview of feminist approaches to the New Testament from the period of 2000 to early 2021. Using a broad definition of ‘feminist’ (to include virtually any work focused primarily on women or female issues presented in the biblical text) and a more stringent definition of ‘New Testament’ (including only those texts that are a part of the New Testament canon, but not larger socio-historical studies or extracanonical literature), the article offers an overview of trends in feminist scholarship on the Gospels and Acts, the Pauline epistles, the General Epistles and Hebrews, and Revelation, noting that this body of scholarship may be characterized as being diverse, collaborative, and centered on female characters within the New Testament texts. With open vistas for exploration remaining, the article forecasts a rich future for feminist approaches to the New Testament.

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Recent Feminist Approaches to Interpreting the New Testament

Howard

2021

Currents in Biblical Research

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“…She writes, These three texts together provide significant validation of the antiquity of the last supper tradition preserved in the Life of the Virgin, which says that the women were there, and also, that Mary, their teacher and role model, presided with her son at the ritual meal. 16 What if one imagines a Last Supper that is more historically accurate and inclusive of women and enslaved workers? 17 Using Luke's narrative, one can imagine that the 12 male disciples are at the meal with Jesus, and Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna are also there, interspersed with the men, reclining on the floor (not sitting at a table).…”

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Preparing and sharing the table: The invisibility of women and enslaved domestic workers in Luke’s Last Supper

Cobb

2020

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In biblical narratives that involve food, women and enslaved domestic workers were very involved in the planning, preparation, and the partaking of meals, even though they are mostly invisible in biblical texts. To make these women and enslaved workers visible, I closely examine the narrative of the Last Supper, or Passover, in the Gospel of Luke (22.7–38). In this gospel, women are present as followers of Jesus and are present with Jesus throughout his ministry, thus their presence at the Last Supper would be expected. In addition, enslaved characters fill the Gospel of Luke as a part of parables as well as within the narrative. In the conclusion of this article, I reimagine the scene of Luke’s Last Supper as it might have happened historically, with women and enslaved persons made visible in the preparations and during the meal itself.

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Mary and Early Christian Women

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Recent Feminist Approaches to Interpreting the New Testament

Recent Feminist Approaches to Interpreting the New Testament

Preparing and sharing the table: The invisibility of women and enslaved domestic workers in Luke’s Last Supper

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