Birthing salvation : gender and class in early Christian childbearing discourse /
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 Pa...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
Series:
Biblical Interpretation Series
121.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262416.
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Call Number: BS2545.S25 S64 2013
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004257788 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |