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Author Jasper, Alison E

Title The shining garment of the text : gendered readings of Johnʹs prologue / Alison Jasper
Published Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 165
Gender, culture, theory ; 6
Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 165.
Gender, culture, theory ; 6.
Contents Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: READING THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES AS A WOMAN-CENTRED CRITIC; PART I; Chapter 2 HAVING HIS CAKE AND EATING IT: THE SYMBOLISM OF GENDER IN AUGUSTINE''S TRACTATES ON THE PROLOGUE OF JOHN''S GOSPEL; Chapter 3 HILDEGARD OF BLNGEN 1098-1179: VISIONARY REFLECTIONS ON THE PROLOGUE; Chapter 4 RIDDLES FOR FEMINIST READERS: MARTIN LUTHER''S SERMONS ON THE PROLOGUE, 1537; Chapter 5 DEMYTHOLOGIZING (THE FEMININE) WITHIN RUDOLF BULTMANN''S COMMENTARY ON THE PROLOGUE (JOHN 1.1-18)
Chapter 6 A SECOND GLANCE AT ADRIENNE VON SPEYRPART II; Chapter 7 WHICH CAME FIRST: WORD OR THE WORDS? TOWARDS A FEMINIST TRANSFORMATION; Chapter 8 FLESH INSIGHTS ON THE PROLOGUE OF JOHN''S GOSPEL; Chapter 9 IN THE BEGINNING WAS LOVE; Chapter 10 CONCLUSION: WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; General Index
Summary Taking the prologue of John's Gospel as a case-study in feminist biblical criticism, the author engages with a persistent view that the biblical text is seriously compromised by its association with patriarchal values. Close analysis of five interpretations by Augustine, Hildegard von Bingen, Martin Luther, Adrienne von Speyr and Rudolf Bultmann shows how, unavoidably, interpretation clothes the biblical text with the varied and dazzling patterns of the patriarchal reading context. But in a second turn, drawing on the techniques of both structuralist criticism and deconstruction, and offering
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-254) and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible. John, I, 1-18 -- Feminist criticism
Bible. John, I, 1-18 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. New Testament. Évangiles Jean -- Critique, interprétation, etc. ram
Bible. New Testament. Evangiles. Jean. 1 -- Critique, interprétation, etc. ram
Bible. New Testament. Evangiles. Jean. 1 -- Critique féministe. ram
Johannesevangelium 1,1-18. swd
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
Feminist criticism
Johannes (bijbelboek)
Feministische theologie.
Feministische literatuurkritiek.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567004512
0567004511
128319192X
9781283191920