| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 580 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Biblical interpretation series ; v. 84
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Biblical interpretation series ; v. 84.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-545) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Mapping as metamorphosis : initial reflections on gender and ancient religious discourses / Virginia Burrus -- Still before sexuality : Greek androgyny, the Roman imperial politics of masculinity and the Roman invention of the Tribas / Diana M. Swancutt -- Gender and geopolitics in the work of Philo of Alexandria : Jewish piety and imperial family values / Mary Rose D'Angelo -- The rhetoric of magic in early Christian discourse : gender, power and the construction of heresy / Kimberly B. Stratton -- Before your very eyes : Roman imperial ideology, gender constructs and Paul's inter-nationalism / Davina C. Lopez -- Vice lists and deviant masculinity : the rhetorical function of 1 Corinthians 5:10-11 and 6:9-10 / Fredrik Ivarsson -- Novel men : masculinity and empire in Mark's Gospel and Xenophon's An Ephesian tale / Eric Thurman -- Script(ur)ing gender in Acts : the past and present power of Imperium / Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele -- From bedroom to courtroom : the adultery type-scene and the Acts of Andrew / Saundra Schwartz -- The rhetoric of the maternal body in the Passion of Perpetua / Judith Perkins -- Wearing it well : gender at work in the shadow of empire / Chris Frilingos -- He shall not look at a woman : gender in the Hekhalot literature / Rebecca Lesses -- Bodies in motion : preliminary notes on queer theory and Rabbinic literature / Gwynn Kessler -- Clement's bound body / Michel Desjardins -- Enslaved to demons : sex, violence and the apoloties of Justin Martyr / Jennifer Knust -- The seduction of weak men : Tertullian's rhetorical construction of gender and ancient Christian heresy / Brad Windon -- Men of learning : the cult of Paideia in Lucian's Alexander / Erik Gunderson. |
| Summary |
Contains essays on issues related to gender at the intersection of religious discourses in antiquity. Analyzing an array of traditions, this work aims to contribute to the goal of showing the options available for examining the interconnection of gender, rhetoric, power and ideology, as they relate to identity formation in the ancient world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Religious aspects.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects. |
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Gender identity.
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Gender identity. |
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Religions.
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Religions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
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Gender identity. |
| Added Author |
Penner, Todd C.
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Vander Stichele, Caroline.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mapping gender in ancient religious discourses. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9004154477 9789004154476 (DLC) 2006050925 (OCoLC)71126928 |
| ISBN |
9789047411260 (electronic book) |
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9047411269 (electronic book) |
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9004154477 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9789004154476 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004154476.i-582 |
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