A Feminist Companion to Paul: Authentic Pauline Writings

Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings #6

by Amy-Jill Levine (Editor), Marianne Blickenstaff

A feminist companion to the authentic writings of Paul is bound to generate a good deal of controversy, given the apostle's often provocative and sometimes ambiguous statements about the place of women in the body of Christ. In this formidable collection of essays, Richard Hays, Mary Anne Beavis, Daniel Boyarin, Kathleen Corely, Beverley Gaventa and Luise Schottroff, among others, explore and expose the play of gender roles in Paul's thought and in the organization of the communities he founded and to which he wrote.

Genres: Theology, Religion, Feminism

227 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2004

About the author

Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Department of Jewish Studies. Her books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus; Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi; four children's books (with Sandy Sasso); The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III); and The Jewish Annotated New Testament (co-edited with Marc Z. Brettler). Her most recent books are The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (co-authored with Marc Z. Brettler), Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven; and The Kingdom of Heaven: 40 Devotionals. In 2019 she became the first Jew to teach New Testament at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute. Professor Levine, who has done over 300 programs for churches, clergy groups, and seminaries, has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Institutions granting her honorary degrees include Christian Theological Seminary and the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest.

Reviews

[Laura Robinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good collection of solid creative exegesis by several outstanding scholars. Not totally what I would call feminist criticism but solid scholarship. Last essay on the parting of the ways is quite dated.