Birthing salvation
Subtitle: gender and class in early Christian childbearing discourse
By: by Anna Rebecca Solevåg
Series: Biblical Interpretation Series -- 121; Biblical interpretation series -- 121.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9789004254978; 9789004257788
Subjects: Bible; Geschlechterrolle; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Christianity; Early Christian literature; Schwangerschaft; Biblical teaching; Childbirth; Salvation; Erlösung; Frühchristentum
Description: 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."
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: On waves, discourses and intersections; title: Greco-Roman childbearing discourse; title: The Pastoral Epistles; title: The Acts of Andrew; title: The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas.