A Feminist Companion To Matthew

Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings #1

by Amy-Jill Levine (Editor), Marianne Blickenstaff

Conjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this inaugural volume to the new series presents ground-breaking insights on the Gospel of Matthew. The eleven essays address women's social roles and literary representations, earthly and heavenly fathers, purity regulations and household configurations, Jesus and Wisdom, professional and lay reactions to women's service, the Canaanite women and the women at the tomb, and the interrelation of Matthew's female characters and contemporary struggles for justice. Throughout, the articles expose the politics of gender and sexuality imbedded in the narrative, and often in the scholarship, of the Gospel.This volume includes contributions by Janice Capel Anderson, Celia Deutsch, Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, Amy-Jill Levine, Thomas R.W. Longstaff, Gail R. O'Day, Caroline Osiek, Marie-Eloise Rosenblatt, Anthony J. Saldarini, Julian Sheffield and Elaine M. Wainwright.>

Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction, Biblical Studies, Theology, Faith

247 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001

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

[Therese Brink · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the first book in a new series of books written about the New Testament through feminist hermeneutics. There are eleven critical studies included in this volume. All of the deal with the women in Matthew. Some of the essays deal with the woman with the hemorrhage, the five foolish virgins, and the Canaanite woman.

These essays are written for the academic or the educated non-professional who is familiar with theological terms and literary theory.

I found the essays interesting and worth reading. Recommended for the appropriately educated person who is interested in the interpretation of Matthew from a feminist perspective.

[cindy]

Read "Matthew: Gender and Reading" by Anderson for Gospel of Matthew in Context.