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PublisherBrill
ISBN-109004114491
ISBN-139789004114494
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Number of PagesX, 390 Pages
Publication NameZerstört Die Werke der Weiblichkeit : Maria Magdalena, Salome und Andere Jüngerinnen Jesu in Christlich-Gnostischen Schriften
LanguageGerman
SubjectChristian Theology / Christology, Christianity / General, Philosophy
Publication Year1999
TypeTextbook
AuthorSilke Petersen
Subject AreaReligion
SeriesNag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
FormatHardcover
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Item Weight30.4 Oz
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Reviews' ...a model of clarity and meticulous documentation...an admirable piece of scholarship. 'Pheme Perkins, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly , 2001.' Full of penetrating insights into the texts and the social relationships reflected in them, a very important contribution to the study of early Christianity. 'Birger A. Pearson, Religious Studies Review , 2000.' ...a most welcome study of the women disciples of Jesus in Christian Gnostic documents...a major contribution to this field...thorough, stimulating, and challenging. 'Esther A. de Boer, Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research , 2001., ' ...a model of clarity and meticulous documentation…an admirable piece of scholarship. 'Pheme Perkins, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly , 2001.' Full of penetrating insights into the texts and the social relationships reflected in them, a very important contribution to the study of early Christianity. 'Birger A. Pearson, Religious Studies Review , 2000.' …a most welcome study of the women disciples of Jesus in Christian Gnostic documents…a major contribution to this field…thorough, stimulating, and challenging. 'Esther A. de Boer, Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research , 2001., '..".a model of clarity and meticulous documentationan admirable piece of scholarship.' Pheme Perkins, "The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2001. '"Full of penetrating insights into the texts and the social relationships reflected in them, a very important contribution to the study of early Christianity.' Birger A. Pearson, "Religious Studies Review, 2000. '"a most welcome study of the women disciples of Jesus in Christian Gnostic documentsa major contribution to this fieldthorough, stimulating, and challenging.' Esther A. de Boer, "Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research, 2001.
Series Volume Number48
SynopsisThis book discusses the significance of women disciples of Jesus such as Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha and Mary, and Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian Gnostic and anti-Gnostic sources. In the course of this investigation the concepts of feminity and masculinity are considered and their importance in these sources becomes apparent., This book considers the place of the women disciples of Jesus in Christian Gnostic documents. It examines their significance and representation in Nag Hammadi documents (GosThom, GosPhil, SophJesChr, DialSav, 1ApocJas) and other early gnostic sources (GosMary, Pistis Sophia), in Patristic anti-Gnostic documents, and in Manichaean Psalms. In these documents, mostly composed during the second and third centuries C.E., Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha and Mary, Arsinoe, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and other anonymous women appear as female disciples. A central issue of the book is the relation between the central role of these women disciples and the apparently contradictory statements about femininity and masculinity which appear in the same texts. The negative view of femininity proves to offer a background to the high assessment of the role of particular women. These female disciples transcend their femininity and become "male.", This book considers the place of the women disciples of Jesus in Christian Gnostic documents. It examines their significance and representation in Nag Hammadi documents (GosThom, GosPhil, SophJesChr, DialSav, 1ApocJas) and other early gnostic sources (GosMary, Pistis Sophia), in Patristic anti-Gnostic documents, and in Manichaean Psalms. In these documents, mostly composed during the second and third centuries C.E., Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha and Mary, Arsinoe, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and other anonymous women appear as female disciples. A central issue of the book is the relation between the central role of these women disciples and the apparently contradictory statements about femininity and masculinity which appear in the same texts. The negative view of femininity proves to offer a background to the high assessment of the role of particular women. These female disciples transcend their femininity and become male ., This book considers the place of the women disciples of Jesus in Christian Gnostic documents. It examines their significance and representation in Nag Hammadi documents (GosThom, GosPhil, SophJesChr, DialSav, 1ApocJas) and other early gnostic sources (GosMary, Pistis Sophia), in Patristic anti-Gnostic documents, and in Manichaean Psalms. In these documents, mostly composed during the second and third centuries C.E., Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha and Mary, Arsinoe, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and other anonymous women appear as female disciples. A central issue of the book is the relation between the central role of these women disciples and the apparently contradictory statements about femininity and masculinity which appear in the same texts. The negative view of femininity proves to offer a background to the high assessment of the role of particular women. These female disciples transcend their femininity and become "male".
