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  • Marriage, Virginity, and Rhetoric for Gregory of Nyssa

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting upon Women and Gender in Early Christianity. This post reflects on Morwenna Ludlow’s “Useful and Beautiful: A Reading of Gregory of Nyssa’s On Virginity and a Proposal for Understanding Early Christian Literature”,[1] which argues that Gregory defends both marriage and virginity through employment of artful and…

  • Recommended Reading: March 12-18

    If you read one article this weekend, engage Why Should We Read? by Eva Brann. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following selections from below. Think I missed sharing something? Let me know in the comments section below.

  • Montantism and the Authority of (Female) Confessor-Martyrs

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting upon Women and Gender in Early Christianity. In “The Role of Martyrdom and Persecution in Developing the Priestly Authority of Women in Early Christianity: A Case Study in Montanism,”[1] Frederick Klawiter contends that from its beginnings Montanism enabled women to rise to ministerial status through their…

  • Gnosticism, Women, and Elaine Pagels

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting upon Women and Gender in Early Christianity. For today’s reflection, I outline and reflect on Elaine Pagels’ “What Became of God as Mother? Conflicting Images of God in Early Christianity.”[1] In so doing I argue that while Pagels’ approach to the question of the divine feminine…

  • Recommended Readings: March 5-11

    If you read one article this week, engage the Conciliar Post Round Table on Christian Self-Defense and Lethal Force. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following suggestions, gleaned from around the blogging world. Think I missed linking an important article? Let me know in the comments section below.

  • The Acts of Paul and Pastoral Epistles

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting upon Women and Gender in Early Christianity. In his article “I Permit No Woman to Teach Except for Thecla: The Curious Case of the Pastoral Epistles and the Acts of Paul Reconsidered” (Novum Testamentum 54 (2012): 176-203), Matthijs den Dulk offers a reanalysis of the relationship…

  • Pheobe the Deacon

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting upon Women and Gender in Early Christianity. Pheobe the διάκονος: Reflections on a Program for Assessing Deaconesses in EC In the article “Deacons, Deaconesses, and Denominational Discussions,”[1] Clarence Agan III tackles the often controversial topic of NT women’s service is diaconal roles, employing Paul’s reference to…

  • A Feminist Introduction to Paul

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting upon Women and Gender in Early Christianity. In her A Feminist Introduction to Paul (St. Louis: Chalice, 2005. 159 pp.), Sandra Hack Polaski outlines some of the major feminist concerns with the Apostle Paul and his writings. Methodologically, Polaski advocates a “transformative” reading of Paul which…

  • February 2016 Biblical Studies Carnival

    Welcome to the February 2016 Biblical Studies Carnival! Assembled below are the very best articles written this past month from around the Biblioblogging world.  I know this because I spent the extra day of February tracking down and reading a plethora of fascinating offerings. This month’s carnival includes submissions from the categories of Hebrew Bible/Old…

  • Recommended Reading: February 20-26

    If you read one article this week, read the Funeral Homily for Justice Antonin Scalia by Fr. Paul Scalia. For those of you with additional reading this time weekend, check out the following selections, gathered (as always) from around the interwebs. Think I missed sharing something important from this week? Let me know in the…