The gendered palimpsest : women, writing, and representation in early Christianity /
Haines-Eitzen, Kim.
New York : Oxford University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Women and books. Women writers, writing for women : authors, scribes, book-lenders, and patrons -- Reading, not eating : women readers in late ancient Christian asceticism -- Women's literature? The case of the Apocryphal acts of the apostles -- Sexual/textual politics. Sinners and saints, silent and submissive? The textual/sexual transformation of female characters in the New Testament and beyond -- "First among all women" : the story of Thecla in textual transmission and iconographic remains -- Contesting the ascetic language of Eros : textual fluidity in the Apocryphal acts of the apostles.
Christian literature, Early
Women and literature.
Women in literature.