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Paul's Views of Women's Roles
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we will continue our study of Paul's letters, focusing now on his views of women's
roles. Our primary readings are from the letters to the Corinthians (1 Cor
1; 7 and 11), the Romans (Rom 16), and the people of Galatia, an area in north-central
Turkey (Gal 3:28). In class, we'll focus mostly on 1 Corinthians, and our Dig Site presentation, if we have one, will tell us about the archaeology,
epigraphy, and literary evidence from the site of Corinth in Greece.-
- The secondary reading for today looks forward to our discussion of Paul and women these next few classes. The author, Margaret MacDonald, runs through a list of the various women mentioned in Paul's letters and the gender assumptions he makes in his letters. Keep track of those named women, and get a sense of Paul's gender assumptions. Are they similar to or different from Xenophon's (or both)? We'll be reading those Pauline texts in the next few classes, so any notes you take now will be useful for a few class days. The optional reading by Elizabeth Castelli provides further helpful background. She argues that Paul is being taken out of his ancient context and plopped into contemporary arguments about gender roles, and not only by Christians, but in secular settings in our country as well. You might consider the question she raises: what is at stake when Paul is deployed in secular debates today (for example, on women's roles or same-sex relations)?
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- Assigned Readings
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- Primary: Genesis 1–3; Romans
16; 1 Corinthians 1; 7; 11; Galatians 3:28 (you may use this version or your Bible)
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- Secondary: WCO 199-218; online class prep
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- Optional: WCO 221-35
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- Slides for Lecture
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- Today's Authors
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- Dig Site 1: Women & Prophecy in the Cults of Corinth (Greece)
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- Further Reading
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- For resources on the debate over women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church, see Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church, prepared for Prof. Murphy's SCTR 165 Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation class.
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- Brooten, Bernadette J. "Early Christian Women and Their Cultural
Context: Issues of Method in Historical Reconstruction." In Feminist
Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship (ed. Adela Yarbro Collins; Chico, California:
Scholars Press, 1985) 65-91.
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- Forbes,
Christopher. Prophecy and Inspired Speech in Early Christianity
and Its Hellenistic Environment. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1995;
reprinted, Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1997.
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- Grant, Robert M. Paul in the Roman World: The Conflict at Corinth. Louisville:
Westminister John Knox, 2001.
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- Harkins, Angela Kim, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and John C. Endres, eds. The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
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- Lopez, Davina C. Apostle to the Conquered: Reimaging Paul's Mission. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.
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- MacDonald, Dennis R. There Is No Male and
Female: The Fate of a Dominical Saying in Paul and Gnosticism. Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1987.
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- MacDonald, Margaret Y. Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion:
The Power of the Hysterical Woman. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
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- Martin, Dale B. The Corinthian Body. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1999.
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- Meeks, Wayne. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle
Paul. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1983.
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- Stanley, Christopher D. The Colonized Apostle: Paul through Postcolonial Eyes. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011.
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- Stökl, Jonathan and Corrine L. Carvalho, eds. Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East, SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature 15. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013.
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- Swancutt, Diana M. "Sexing the Pauline Body of Christ: Scriptural Sex in the Context of the American Christian Culture War." In Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (ed. Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller; New York: Fordham University Press, 2006) 65-98, 390-99.
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- Westfall, Cynthia Long. Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vision for Men and Women in Christ. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2016.
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- Wire, Antoinette Clark. The Corinthian Women Prophets: A Reconstruction
through Paul's Rhetoric. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
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- Wright, Archie T. The Origin of Evil Spirits: The Reception of Genesis 6:1-4 in Early Jewish Literature, rev. ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015.
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- Links
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- Sources
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- Photograph: "Meal Scene from room 45 at Peter and Marcellinus catacomb,"
Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, Rome, from the cover of Carolyn Osiek
and Margaret Y. MacDonald, A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity
(Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006).
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