Feminist Companion to Matthew by Amy-Jill Levine, Amy-Jill Le... - 9781841272115

Feminist Companion to MatthewAuthor(s): Amy-Jill Levine, Amy-Jill Levine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.\nISBN-13: 9781841272115, 978-1841272115\nSynopsis\nConjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this inaugural volume to the new series presents ground-breaking insights on the Gospel of Matthew. The eleven essays address women's social roles and literary representations, earthly and heavenly fathers, purity regulations and household configurations, Jesus and Wisdom, professional and lay reactions to women's service, the Canaanite women and the women at the tomb, and the interrelation of Matthew's female characters and contemporary struggles for justice. Throughout, the articles expose the politics of gender and sexuality imbedded in the narrative, and often in the scholarship, of the [url] volume includes contributions by Janice Capel An.