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Author Solevåg, Anna Rebecca.

Title Birthing salvation : gender and class in early Christian childbearing discourse / by Anna Rebecca Solevag.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Biblical Interpretation Series ; 121
Biblical interpretation series ; 121.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In 'Birthing Salvation' Anna Rebecca Solevåg explores the theme of childbearing in early Christian discourse. The book maps the importance of women's childbearing in Greco-Roman culture and shows how childbearing discourse interfaces with salvation discourse in three early Christian texts: the Pastoral Epistles, the Acts of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Issues of gender and class are explored through an intersectional analysis. In particular, the institution of slavery, and its implications for ideas about salvation in these texts are drawn out. Birthing Salvation offers fresh interpretations of these texts, including the peculiar statement in 1 Tim 2:15 that women "will be saved through childbearing."
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Subject Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. New Testament.
Salvation -- Biblical teaching.
Salvation -- Biblical teaching.
Salvation -- Christianity.
Salvation -- Christianity.
Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early.
Childbirth -- Biblical teaching.
Childbirth.
Biblical teaching.
Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Solevag, Anna Rebecca. Birthing salvation 9789004254978 (DLC) 2013026490 (OCoLC)854857964
ISBN 9789004257788 (electronic book)
9004257780 (electronic book)
1299847587
9781299847583
9789004254978
9004254978