Introduction

This first volume in the New Testament section of the Bible and Women series, devoted to the Synoptic Gospels and the Johannine literature, displays the fruits of collaboration of American and Western European scholars. Ranging among historical-critical investigation, archaeological discovery, cultural anthropology, social-scientific modeling, narrative analysis, theological speculation, and reception history, the essays attend to the constructions of gender, the roles and representations of women, nd the impact biblical studies has had--and can have--on people's lives

Contents

Introduction

• Mercedes Navarro Puerto - Marinella Perroni

• Carolyn Osiek Subsidiary Biblical Sciences and Feminist Perspective: A Fruitful Intersection
• Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New testamente Canon Formation and the Marginalization of Wo/men
• Sean Freyne Between Empire and Synagogue: Exploring the Roles of Women in Early Roman Palestine through a Markan Lens
• Luise Schottroff "Behold, These Are My Sisters" (Matt 12:49): Female Disciples of Jesus the Messiah in the Major Cities of the Roman Empire
• Irmtraud Fischer Déjà-vu for Proving Soteriological Pertinence: Gender-Relevant Reception of the Hebrew Bible in the Narrative Texts of the New Testament
• Luca Arcari Which Messiah for Women? Jewish Messianisms and Early Christologies from Perspectives of Gender
• Amy-Jill LevineThe Gospel of Matthew: Between Breaking and Continuity
• Mercedes Navarro Puerto Female Disciples in Mark? The "Problematizing" of a Concept
• Marinella Perroni Disciples, Not Apostles: Luke's Double Message
• Turid Karlsen Seim Women and Negotiations of Gender in the Gospel of John
• Pius-Ramon Tragan Johannine Epistles: The Contribution of Gender Exegesis
• Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati Babylon and Jerusalem as Female Characters in the Apocalypse: Visions, Traditions, and Intermediality
• Romano Penna Some Christological Models from the Perspective of Gender in the Canonical Gospels
• Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce In and Out of the House: Changes in Women's Role from Jesus's Movement to the Early Churches
• Enrico Norelli Jesus between Story and Theology: The Infancy Gospels (Matthew 1–2; Luke 1–2)
• Silke Petersen Mary of Nazaret: A Story of Transformation
• Bernadette Escaffre Martha
• Silvia Pellegrini Nameless Women in the Canonical Gospels
• Andrea Taschl-Erber Mary of Magdala: First Apostle?
• Judith Hartenstein Masculine and Feminine Narrative Figures in the Fourth Gospel: Gender Perspectives

Bibliography

Contributors

Index of Ancient Sources

GOSPELS: NARRATIVE AND HISTORY

• Mercedes Navarro Puerto
• Marinella Perroni (Eds.)

Year 2015