From the margins 2
Subtitle: women of the New Testament and their afterlives
By: edited by Christine E. Joynes and Christopher C. Rowland
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 27; Bible in the modern world -- 27.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sheffield [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781906055813
Subjects: Bibel; Frau; Rezeption; Congresses; Bible; Künste; Criticism, interpretation; Literatur; Women in the Bible
Other titles: Women of the New Testament and their afterlives
Description: "Despite half a century of biblical interpretation that has sought to put women back on the agenda of ancient texts (written largely if not wholly by men), the dominant threads of narrative and doctrine have - with the notable exception of Mary the mother of Jesus - been focused on the lives and actions of men. Reception history tells a different story. It is not the case that there is a recovery of the lives of women hidden behind the pages of the New Testament, for our information remains as sparse and tantalizing as ever. Rather, the study of biblical women's 'afterlives' allows the imaginative engagement of artists and writers to broaden the horizon of interpretative expectations. Whether it is through historical imagination or the grasp of different portrayals of familiar biblical women (like Mary the mother of Jesus or Mary Magdalene), the creative genius of these interpreters, neglected by mainstream biblical textual scholars, only underlines the importance of the biblical women, viewed in the light of their afterlives."--Back cover.
Notes: "This volume has its origins in a project entitled 'Biblical Women and their Afterlives' conceived and developed by the Centre for Reception History of the Bible at the University of Oxford and organized together with colleagues from the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts at Boston University, USA ."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: To cast a stone  -- John F. Deane; title: Just another Jewish mother? Mary in the Jewish imagination  -- Lesleigh Cushing Stalberg; title: Belittling Mary: insult, humiliation and early developments in mariology  -- John A. Darr -- 'Black but beautiful': the Black Madonnas of Westen Europe and the Biblical commentaries of St. Bernardo of Clairvaux / -- Sarah Jane Boss; title: Mary: bone of contention -- Ann Loades.; title: The celluloid brothel : imag(in)ing woman in The Last Temptation of Christ  -- Melanie J. Wright; title: Recasting the Magdalene in sixteenth- century Florence: the painting workshop of Michele Tosini  -- Heidi J. Hornik; title: Mary Magdalene as Joculatrix Domini: Franciscan music and vernacular homiletics in the Shrewsbury Officium Resurrections and Easter plays from Germany and Bohemia -- Peter Loewen.; title: 'What kind of woman is this?' reading Luke 7.36-50 in the light of Dante Rossetti's drawing 'Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee', 1853-59  -- Rachel Nicholls; title: Mary Magdalene as agent (or witness) of apocalypse  -- Christopher C. Rowland; title: Too hot to handle? the story of an adulteress and the Gospel of John  -- Jennifer Wright Knust; title: Herodias goes headhunting  -- Caroline Vander Stichele; title: Short story, maximal imbroglio: Salome ancient and modern -- Margarita Stocker -- Imaginning Salome, or How La Sauterelle became La Femme Fatale /-- Diane Apostolos-Cappadona.; title: Reading Salome: Caravaggio and the Gospel Narratives  -- Ela Nutu; title: Wombs and tombs: the reception history of Mark 16.1-20  -- Christine E. Joynes; title: Sibling rivalry: Martha and Mary of Bethany  -- Ena Giurescu Heller; title: 'Crumb Trails and puppy-dog tales': reading afterlives of Canaanite woman  -- Louise J. Lawrence; title: 'Juniam, nomen viri est': on early modern readings of Paul's greetings to the Roman Church  -- Charlotte Methuen; title: Blake's Jerusalem: refiguring revelation's women  -- Susanne Sklar -- Images of Babylon: a visual history of the whore in late Medieval and early modern art / -- Natasha O'Hear; title: Fovea peccati et uterus ecclesiae: the symbolic nature of female sexuality on Medieval Baptismal fonts -- Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens.