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Topic Bibliographies
The following books and articles are offered to help jump-start your
research project. These are all professional-level sources, and you can mine their notes and bibliographies for other possible sources. Click on the scribe to the right of each topic to return to the topic description and list of researchers.
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The Historical Jesus and Women
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- Bauckham, Richard. Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2002.
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- Brooten,
Bernadette. "Early Christian Women and Their
Cultural Context: Issues of Method in Historical Reconstruction." In
Feminist Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship (ed.
Adela Yarbro Collins; Biblical Scholarship in North America
10; Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1985) 65-91.
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- Corley,
Kathleen E. "Feminist Myths of Christian
Origins." In Reimagining Christian Origins.
A Colloquium Honoring Burton L. Mack (ed. Elizabeth
A. Castelli and Hal Taussig; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania:
Trinity Press International, 1996) 51-67.
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- --------. Women
and the Historical Jesus: Feminist Myths of Christian Origins. Sonoma,
California: Polebridge, 2002.
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- Jones,
F. Stanley, ed. Which Mary?: The Marys
of Early Christian Tradition. Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.
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- Knust, Jennifer. Loose Texts, Loose
Women: A History of Jesus and an Adulteress. Fellowship to write the book received 2003; forthcoming.
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- Kraemer,
Ross Shephard. "Jewish Women and Christian
Origins: Some Caveats." In Women and
Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary
Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
35-49.
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- Stegemann,
Ekkehard W. and Wolfgang Stegemann. "Part
Four: The Social Roles and Social Situation of Women in
the Mediterranean World and in Early Christianity." In
The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century,
trans. O. C. Dean, Jr. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999; German
original, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1995) 359-407, 463-74
(especially ch. 13).
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- Note:
Use the endnotes of each of these essays as further sources
for bibliography.
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The Brothers of Jesus
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- X
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Women
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Women
in the Pauline Communities
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- Boyarin,
Daniel. "Brides of Christ: Jewishness and
the Pauline Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation." In
A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) 158-79.
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- Kittredge,
Cynthia Briggs. "Corinthian Women Prophets
and Paul's Argumentation in 1 Corinthians." In
Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation. Essays
in Honor of Krister Stendahl (ed. Richard A. Horsley;
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000).
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- Brooten,
Bernadette. "Junia ... Outstanding among
the Apostles (Rom 16.7)." In Women Priests:
A Catholic Commentary on the Vatican Declaration (ed.
Leonard Swidler and Arlene Swidler; New York: Paulist, 1977)
141-4.
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- Castelli,
Elizabeth A. "Disciplines of Difference:
Asceticism and History in Paul." In Asceticism
and the New Testament (ed. Vincent L. Wimbush and Leif
E. Vaage; New York: Routledge, 1999) 171-85.
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- --------. "Paul
on Women and Gender." In Women and Christian
Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo;
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 221-35.
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- Corrington-Streete,
Gail P. "Sex, Spirit, and Control: Paul
and the Corinthian Women." In Ritual,
Power, and the Body: Historical Perspectives on the Representation
of Greek Women (ed. C. Nadia Seremetakis; New York:
Pella, 1993) 95-117.
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- Cotter,
Wendy. "Women's Authority Roles in Paul's
Churches: Counter-cultural or Conventional?" Novum
Testamentum 36 (1994) 350-72.
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- D'Angelo,
Mary Rose. "Veils, Virgins and the Tongues
of Men and Angels: Women's Heads as Sexual Members in Ancient
Christianity." In Off with Her Head!
The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture
(ed. Howard Eilberg Schwartz and Wendy Doniger; Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1995) 131-64.
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Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler. "Missionaries, Apostles,
Coworkers: Romans 16 and the Reconstruction of Women's Early
Christian History." Word and World
6 (1986) 420-33.
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- MacDonald,
Margaret Y. "Reading Real Women through
the Undisputed Letters of Paul." In Women
and Christian Origins, 199-220.
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- --------. "Women
Holy in Body and Spirit: The Social Setting of 1 Corinthians
7." New Testament Studies 36 (1990)
161-81.
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- Martin,
Dale. The Corinthian Body. New
Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995.
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- --------. "Paul without Passion: On Paul's
Rejection of Desire in Sex and Marriage." In
Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor (ed. Halvor Moxnes; New York: Routledge,
1997) 201-215. Routledge, 1997) 201-215.
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- Stegemann,
Ekkehard W. and Wolfgang Stegemann. "Part
Four: The Social Roles and Social Situation of Women in
the Mediterranean World and in Early Christianity." In
The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century,
trans. O. C. Dean, Jr. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999; German
original, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1995) 359-407, 463-74
(especially ch. 14).
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- Whelan,
Caroline F. "Amici Pauli: The Role of Phoebe
in the Early Church." Journal for the
Study of the New Testament 49 (1993) 67-85.
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- Wire,
Antoinette Clark. The Corinthian Women Prophets:
A Reconstruction through Paul's Rhetoric.
Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
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- Note:
Use the endnotes of these essays as further sources for
bibliography.
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Same-sex Relations in the Bible
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- Ancient Texts
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- Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
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- Brooten, Bernadette J. Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoreoticism, The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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- Cantarella, Eva. Bisexuality in the Ancient World, 2nd rev. ed., trans. Cormac O’Cuilleanain. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2002.
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- Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
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- Jakobsen, Janet R. and Pellegrini, Ann. Love the Sin: Sexual Regulations and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, Sexual Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
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- Johnson, M. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 2005.
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- McClure, Laura K., ed. Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources, Interpreting Ancient History. Indianapolis: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.
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- Nissinen, Martti. Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective, trans. Kirsi Stjerna. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2004.
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- Skinner, Marilyn B. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture, Ancient Cultures. Indianapolis: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
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- Williams, Craig A. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity, 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010; original, 1999.
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- Contemporary Church Interpretations
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- Balch, David L., ed. Homosexuality, Science, and the "Plain Sense" of Scripture. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999. (Disciples of Christ)
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- Gagnon, Robert A. J. The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics. Nashville: Abingdon, 2002. (a conservative approach, contra Nissinen)
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- Good, D. J. "Reading Strategies for Biblical Passages on Same-Sex Relations." Theology and
Sexuality 4:9 (1997) 70-82.
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- Helminiak, Daniel A. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality. Tajique, New Mexico: Alamo Square Press, 1994.
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- Lyons, William John. "'Outing' Qoheleth: On the Search for Homosexuality in the Wisdom
Tradition." Theology and Sexuality 12:1 (2006) 181-201.
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- Scroggs, Robin. The New Testament and Homosexuality. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
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- Seow, Choon-Leong. Homosexuality and Christian Community. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996.
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- Soards, Marion L. Scripture and Homosexuality. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995.
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Redactional
Study of a Female Character in Scripture
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- Note:
Bibliographies will differ depending on the character you
have chosen. The following general essays provide useful
background and references to studies of particular women. For Mary Magdalene, see also the
papers on her at the current Society
of Biblical Literature site.
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- Bauckham, Richard. Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2002.
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- Burstein, Dan and Arne J. de Keijzer, eds. Secrets of Mary Magdalene: The Untold Story of History's Most Misunderstood Woman. New York: Squibrocket, 2006.
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- Corley,
Kathleen E. Private Women, Public Meals: Social
Conflict in the Synoptic Tradition. Peabody,
Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1993.
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- D'Angelo,
Mary Rose. "Reconstructing 'Real' Women
in Gospel Literature: The Case of Mary Magdalene." In
Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer
and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press,
1999) 105-128.
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- --------. "(Re)Presentations
of Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke-Acts." In
Women and Christian Origins, 171-95.
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- --------. "(Re)Presentations
of Women in the Gospels: John and Mark." In
Women and Christian Origins, 129-49.
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- Foskett,
Mary F. A Virgin Conceived: Mary and
Classical Representations of Virginity.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002.
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- Good,
Deirdre, ed. Mariam, the Magdalen, and
the Mother. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2005.
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- Jones,
F. Stanley, ed. Which Mary?: The Marys
of Early Christian Tradition. Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.
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- Levine,
Amy-Jill. "Women in the Q Communit(ies)
and Traditions." In Women and Christian
Origins, 150-70.
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- Marjanen, Antti. The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and Related Documents, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 40. New York: E. J. Brill, 1996.
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- Schaberg,
Jane. The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene:
Legends, Apocrypha and the Christian Testament.
New York: Continuum, 2002.
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- Note:
Use the endnotes of these essays as further sources for
bibliography.
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Women
in the Gospel of Luke
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- Collins,
John N. "Did Luke Intend a Disservice to
Women in the Martha and Mary Story?" Biblical
Theology Bulletin 28 (Fall 1998) 104-111.
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- D'Angelo,
Mary Rose. "(Re)Presentations of Women in
the Gospel of Matthew and Luke-Acts." In
Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer
and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press,
1999) 171-95.
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- Foskett,
Mary F. A Virgin Conceived: Mary and
Classical Representations of Virginity.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002.
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- Seim,
Turid Karlsen. The Double Message: Patterns
of Gender in Luke-Acts. Nashville, Tennessee:
Abingdon, 1994.
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- Note:
Use the endnotes of these essays as further sources for
bibliography.
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Women and the Rise of Christianity
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- Ancient
Primary Evidence
- Pliny
the Younger.
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- Marcus
Cornelius Fronto, apud Minucius Felix, Octavius.
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- Lucian
of Samosata.
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- Galen
of Pergamum.
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- Celsus,
apud Origen, Contra Celsum 3.44.
- Origen. Contra
Celsum, trans. Henry Chadwick. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1953.
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- Useful
Secondary Works
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- Castelli,
Elizabeth A. "Gender, Theory, and The
Rise of Christianity: A Response to Rodney Stark." Journal
of Early Christian Studies 6 (2 1998) 227-57.
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- --------. "Heteroglossia,
Hermeneutics, and History: A Review Essay of Recent Feminist
Studies of Early Christianity." Journal
of Feminist Studies in Religion 10 (2 1994) 73-98.
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- Clark,
Elizabeth A. "Early Christian Women: Sources
and Interpretation." In That Gentle Strength:
Historical Perspectives on Women in Christianity (ed.
Lynda L. Coon, Katherine J. Haldan and Elisabeth W. Sommer;
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990) 19-35.
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- Cloke,
Gillian. This Female Man of God: Women and
Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, A.D. 350-450. New
York: Routledge, 1995.
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Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler. In Memory of Her: A Feminist
Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. New
York: Crossroad, 1983.
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- Harvey,
Susan Ashbrook. "Women in Early Syrian Christianity." In
Images of Women in Antiquity (ed. Averil Cameron
and Amélie Kuhrt; Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1985) 288-98.
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- LeMoine, Fannie J. "Apocalyptic Experience and the Conversion of Women in Early Christianity." In
Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium (ed. Christopher
Kleinhenz and Fannie J. LeMoine; Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1999) 201-206.
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- MacDonald,
Margaret Y. Early Christian Women and Pagan
Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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- Stark,
Rodney. "The Role of Women in Christian
Growth." In The Rise of Christianity:
A Sociologist Reconsiders History (Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 1996).
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- Note:
Use the endnotes of these essays as further sources for
bibliography.
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The
Construction of Gender in Ancient Romance Novels
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- Ancient
Romance Novels
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- Reardon,
B. P., ed. Collected Ancient Greek Novels. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1989.
- If
you have trouble getting this translation, select one
of the novels he translates and try to locate another
publication of just that novel. The novels best suited
to comparison with early Christian apocryphal acts are:
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- Chariton,
Chaereas and Callirhoe
- Xenophon
of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale
- Achilles
Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon
- Longus,
Daphnis and Chloe
- Heliodorus,
An Ethiopian Story (this one is very long!)
- Anonymous,
The Story of Apollonius King of Tyre
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- Christian
Apocryphal Acts
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- Hennecke,
Edgar and Wilhelm Schneemelcher, eds. "Second
and Third-Century Acts of Apostles." In
New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 2, Writings Relating
to the Apostles, Apocalypses and Related Subjects, trans.
R. McL. Wilson (Cambridge/Louisville: James Clarke/Westminster
John Knox, 1992; German original, Tübingen, J. C. B.
Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1989) 75-411.
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- Roberts,
Alexander and James Donaldson, eds. Apocrypha." In
Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings
of the Fathers down to A.D. 325, vol. 8, The Twelve
Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocrypha,
Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains
of the First Ages (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1886) 477-564.
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- The
apocryphal Acts are also available online at The
Noncanonical Literature: New Testament Acts.
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- Select
just one of the apocryphal acts in one or the other
of these volumes. Recommended Acts are:
- The
Acts of Andrew
- The
Acts of Paul (and Thecla)
- The
Acts of Thomas
- Useful
Secondary Works
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- Boyarin,
Daniel. "Brides of Christ: Jewishness and
the Pauline Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation." In
A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) 158-79.
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- Brock,
Ann Graham. "Political Authority and Cultural
Accommodation: Social Diversity in the Acts of Paul
and the Acts of Peter." In The
Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: Harvard Divinity School
Studies (ed. François Bovon, Ann Graham Brock
and Christopher R. Matthews; Religions of the World; Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press for the Harvard
University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1999)
145-69.
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- Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
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- Burrus,
Virginia. Chastity as Autonomy: Women in the
Stories of the Apocryphal Acts. Lewiston,
New York: Edwin Mellen, 1987.
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- Cameron,
Averil. "Virginity as Metaphor: Women and
the Rhetoric of Early Christianity." In
History as Text: The Writing of Ancient History (ed.
Averil Cameron; London: Duckworth, 1989) 171-205.
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- Davies,
Stevan. The Revolt of the Widows: The Social
World of the Apocryphal Acts. Carbondale,
Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.
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- Davis,
Stephen J. The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity, Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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- --------. "A 'Pauline' Defense of Women's
Right to Baptize? Intertextuality and Apostolic
Authority in the Acts of Paul." Journal
of Early Christian Studies 8 (3 2000) 453-9.
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- Foskett,
Mary F. A Virgin Conceived: Mary and
Classical Representations of Virginity.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002.
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- Gorman, Jill. "Thinking with and about 'Same-Sex Desire': Producing and Policing Female Sexuality in the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena." Journal of History and Sexuality 10 (2001) 416-41.
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- Hayne,
Léonie. "Thecla and the Church Fathers." Vigiliae
Christianae 48 (1994) 209-218.
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- Jacobs,
Andrew S. "A Family Affair: Marriage, Class,
and Ethics in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles." Journal
of Early Christian Studies 7 (1 1999) 105-138.
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- Konstan,
David. "Acts of Love: A Narrative Pattern
in the Apocryphal Acts." Journal of Early
Christian Studies 6 (1 1998) 15-36.
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- --------. Sexual
Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres. Princeton,
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.
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- Lefkowitz,
Mary R. "Did Ancient Women Write Novels?" In
"Women Like This" New Perspectives on Jewish
Women in the Greco-Roman World (ed. Amy-Jill Levine;
Early Judaism and its Literature 1; Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1991) 199-219.
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- MacDonald,
Dennis R. The Legend and the Apostle: The
Battle for Paul in Story and Canon. Philadelphia:
Westminster, 1983.
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- --------. "The
Role of Women in the Production of the Apocryphal Acts of
the Apostles." Iliff Review 41 (4
1984) 21-38.
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- MacDonald,
Margaret Y. "Rereading Paul: Early Interpreters
of Paul on Women and Gender." In Women
and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and
Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
236-53.
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- Morgan, J. R. "Daphnis and Chloe: Love's Own Sweet Story." In Greek Fiction: The Greek Novel in Context (ed. J. R. Morgan and Richard Stoneman; London: Routledge, 1994) 64-77.
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- Perkins,
Judith. "An Ancient 'Passing' Novel: Heliodorus'
Aithiopika." Arethusa 32
(2 1999) 197-214. Available online.
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- Reardon, B. P. The Form of Greek Romance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
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- Robins,
William. "Romance and Renunciation at the
Turn of the Fifth Century." Journal of
Early Christian Studies 8 (4 2000) 531-57.
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- Shaw,
Brent D. "Body/Power/Identity: The Passion
of the Martyrs." Journal of Early Christian
Studies 4 (3 1996) 269-312.
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- Thomas,
Christine M. The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature,
and the Ancient Novel: Rewriting the Past. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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- Valantasis,
Richard. "Is the Gospel of Thomas Ascetical? Revisiting
an Old Problem with a New Theory." Journal
of Early Christian Studies 7 (1 1999) 55-81.
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- Note:
Use the endnotes of these essays as further sources for
bibliography.
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Varying Views of Marriage in the Early Church
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- Household Codes
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- Primary Literature
- Colossians 3:18–4:1
- Ephesians 5:21–6:9
- 1 Peter 2:11–3:12
- 1 Timothy 2:8-15; 5:1-2; 6:1-2
- Titus 2:1-10; 3:1
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- Secondary Literature
- Balch, David L. "Household Codes." In Greco-Roman Literature and the New Testament: Selected Forms and Genres (SBLSBS; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988) 25-50.
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- D'Angelo, Mary Rose. "Eusebeia: Roman Imperial Family Values and the Sexual Politics of 4 Maccabees and the Pastorals." Biblical Interpretation 11:2 (2003) 139-65.
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- Osiek, Carolyn and Margaret Y. MacDonald. "Ephesians 5 and the Politics of Marriage." In A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006) 118-43.
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- Standhartinger, Angela. "The Origins and Intention of the Household Code in the Letter to the Colossians." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 79 (2000) 117-30.
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- Wicker, Kathleen O'Brien. "First Century Marriage Ethics: A Comparative Study of the Household Codes and Plutarch's Conjugal Precepts." In No Famine in the Land: Studies in Honor of John L. McKenzie (ed. James W. Flanagan and Anita Weisbrod Robinson; Missoula, Montana: Scholars press, 1975) 141-53.
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- Clement of Alexandria
- Primary Literature
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- Secondary Literature
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- Tertullian
- Primary Literature
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- Secondary Literature
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- John Chrysostom
- Primary Literature
- Chrysostom, John. On Marriage and Family Life. Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1986.
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- Secondary Literature
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- Augustine
- Primary Literature
- Augustine. "The Excellence of Marriage." In Marriage and Virginity, trans. Ray Kearney, ed. John E. Rotelle (Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century; Hyde Park, New York: New City Press, 1998).
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- Secondary Literature
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- Same-Sex Marriage Debates
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- Jordan, Mark D. Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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- Helminiak, Daniel A. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality. Tajique, New Mexico: Alamo Square Press, 1994.
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- Stone, Ken. "Can Biblical Scholarship Shed Light on 'Same-sex Marriage' Debates?" Chicago Theological Seminar Register 91:3 (2001) 17-22.
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- Via, Dan O. and Robert A. J. Gagnon. Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.
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- General Resources
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- Balch, David L. and Carolyn Osiek, eds. Early Christian Families in Context. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2003.
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- Chryssavgis, John. Love, Sexuality, and the Sacrament of Marriage. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2005.
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- Hunter, David G. Marriage in the Early Church. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2001.
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- Martin, Dale B. Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation. Lousville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.
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- Meyendorff, John. Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective. Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1975.
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- Moxnes, Halvor, ed. Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor. New York: Routledge, 1997.
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- Osiek, Carolyn and Margaret Y. MacDonald, with Janet H. Tulloch. A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006.
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- Rawson, Beryl. “’The Roman Family’ in Recent Research: State of the Question.” Biblical Interpretation 11:2 (2003) 119-38.
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- Viscuso, Patrick Demetrios. Sexuality, Marriage, and Celibacy in Byzantine Law: The Alphabetical Collection of Matthew Blastares: Selections from a Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Canon Law. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2008.
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- Winter, Bruce W. Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communities. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2003.
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- Witte, John, Jr. From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, Family, Religion, and Culture. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.
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- Primary Texts
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- "The
Acts of Paul and Thecla," available in the following
sources:
- Hennecke,
Edgar and Wilhelm Schneemelcher, eds. "Second
and Third-Century Acts of Apostles." In
New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 2, Writings
Relating to the Apostles, Apocalypses and Related
Subjects, trans. R. McL. Wilson (Cambridge/Louisville:
James Clarke/Westminster John Knox, 1992; German
original, Tübingen, J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck],
1989) 75-411.
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- Roberts,
Alexander and James Donaldson, eds. Apocrypha." In
Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of
the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325,
vol. 8, The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles,
The Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of
Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First
Ages (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1886) 477-564.
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- The
apocryphal Acts are also available online at The
Noncanonical Homepage: New Testament Acts.
- "Life
of Apolinaria (Dorotheos)," found in
- Drescher,
James. "Life of Hilaria." In
Three Coptic Legends (Cairo: Imprimerie de
l'Institut français d'archéologie
orientale, 1947).
- "Life
of Eugenia (Eugenios)," found in
- Lewis,
Agnes Smith, trans. "Life of Eugenia." In
Select Narratives of Holy Women (Studia Sinaitica
10; London/New York: C. J. Clay/Macmillan, 1900).
-
- Conybeare,
F. C., ed. "Life of Eugenia (Armenian
version)." In The Apology and
Acts of Apollonius and Other Monuments of Early
Christianity (London/New York: Swan Sonnenschein/Macmillan,
1894).
- "Life
of Euphrosyne (Smaragdus)," found in
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Patricia Cox. "Desert Asceticism and 'The
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Philip Lyndon. Food and the Body: Some Peculiar
Questions in High Medieval Theology, STGM 69. Leiden:
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Richard and Vincent L. Wimbush, eds. Asceticism. New
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of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources. Kalamazoo,
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Vincent L., ed. Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman
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- Note:
Use the endnotes of each of these essays as further sources
for bibliography.
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Women's
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- A resource listing the documents produced by the Catholic Church addressing the topic of women's ordination, along with secondary literature on several of them, is available at this link.
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