Neither Gold nor Braided Hair (1 Timothy 2.9; 1 Peter 3.3): Adornment, Gender and Honour in Antiquity

Batten, Alicia J.

doi:10.1017/s0028688509990075

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“…Honour and shame pervaded the first-century Mediterranean world, even affecting interpersonal relations within the household (Esler 1994:45). Batten (2009) explains that:…”

Section: The First-century Non-jewish House Churches Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring gender relations in Paul’s use of salutations to house churches and the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko

Mzondi

2022

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Paul usually ends his letters with salutations to believers who meet in someone else’s house. Far from being individualistic, these greetings also include people from different house churches. Considered from a functional angle, these greetings cement relationships between house churches. Within an ubuntu worldview, the oral praxis of sereto (Sepedi) or isiduko (IsiXhosa) (praise-poetry) establishes and confirms relationships between members of the same community (family, clan or tribe). The question is how such praxes affect women who belong to such communities.Contribution: This article is a comparative analysis of how some of the salutations used at the end of some of Paul’s epistles touch on gender relations in the same way as the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko touches on gender relations among members of a community (family, clan or tribe).

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“…Honour and shame pervaded the first-century Mediterranean world, even affecting interpersonal relations within the household (Esler 1994:45). Batten (2009) explains that:…”

Section: The First-century Non-jewish House Churches Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring gender relations in Paul’s use of salutations to house churches and the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko

Mzondi

2022

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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“…3.1-7. While some modest attention has been given to the particular issue of adornment (Batten 2009;Glahn 2017b), interest in the code's interaction with social mores of both the past and present has been more evident. Explorations of these codes have considered larger questions of how to interpret them, especially in light of their original context (Bauman-Martin 2004;Christensen 2016).…”

Section: Feminist Approaches To the General Epistles And Hebrewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…Batten (2009) posits that in 1 Timothy the active involvement of wealthy women in the new congregations gave rise to serious tension, insofar as such gendered economic pursuits, evidenced by enhanced status, were publicly perceived as detrimental to the group's social respectability. Not only were these women successful in managing economic resources, but they might have also been accused of engaging in excessive luxuria, in luxurious spending that could bring dishonour to the entire community.…”

Section: The Pauline Communities: the Shift Towards Household-managementmentioning

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Early Christian Representations of the Economy: Evidence from New Testament Texts

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Merianos²

2012

History and Anthropology

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The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of economic issues that permeate certain aspects of the New Testament narrative world. After critically discussing the proper methodological patterns, the essay explores the possibility of reconstructing the socio-economic world in which these narratives emerged and evolved. We then proceed to assess the economic norms embedded in a rich diversity of New Testament texts, and we analyse how these religious discourses affected the economic attitudes of their respective audiences. To avoid overgeneralization, we properly differentiate the distinctive responses to the problem of economic necessity, in conformity to the particular social setting. We in turn suggest an alternative reading of some economic aspects of these texts; in so doing, we employ theories that advance a new understanding of the ancient economy. Finally, findings are summarized and further propositions are formulated.

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Neither Gold nor Braided Hair (1 Timothy 2.9; 1 Peter 3.3): Adornment, Gender and Honour in Antiquity

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Exploring gender relations in Paul’s use of salutations to house churches and the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko

Exploring gender relations in Paul’s use of salutations to house churches and the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko

Recent Feminist Approaches to Interpreting the New Testament

Early Christian Representations of the Economy: Evidence from New Testament Texts

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