Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space

by Jorunn Økland

Overview

In Women in Their Place Jorunn Økland takes the archaeological remains at Corinth as a starting point from which to develop an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed reading of Paul's utterances on women in 1 Corinthians 11-14. In this section of the letter Paul deals with the ritual gatherings and describes the ekklesia as a of ritual space distinct from domestic space.

Økland assesses the text within a larger context of four different gender models found in temple architecture, rituals and literary texts. Whilst Paul's teaching in the letter effectively engendered 'church' as male space, his use of a variety of gender models left early Christian women with many other notions of ritual space to explore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567084071
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/15/2005
Series:	The Library of New Testament Studies , #269
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Jorunn Okland, professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo (formerly Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield). Author of "Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space "(2004).

Editorial Reviews

'Women in Their Place is a much longer book, based on a doctoral thesis, and therefore a great deal more elaborate intellectually, inclined to leave no stone unturned, no avenue unexplored.' Revd Leslie Houlden, Church Times, 14 July 2006--Sanford Lakoff "Church Times "

"This is a very important book that should have a significant impact on Pauline scholarship" Peter Oakes, SOTS Booklist 2007--Sanford Lakoff

Review International Review of Biblical Studies, vol 51, 2004/05

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