On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in the Biblical World : Essays in Honor of Elisabeth SchA¼ssler Fiorenza (Paperback)

Table of Contents: Editors' Introduction Esther Fuchs, "Points of Resonance" Alice Bach, "Women's Altars: Lived Religion from Now to Then" Jane Schaberg, "Magdalene Christianity" Elizabeth A. Castelli, "The Ekklesia of Women and/as Utopian Space: Locating the Work of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza in Feminist Utopian Thought" Pushpa Joseph, "Trail Blazers: Schussler Fiorenza and Soares Prabhu - A Comparative Study" Athalya Brenner, "Some Reflectons on Violence Against Women and the Image of the Hebrew God: The Prophetic Books Revisited" Joan E. Taylor, "The Women 'Priests' of Philo's De Vita Contemplativa: Reconstructing the Thereapeutae" Tal Ilan, "Paul and Pharisee Women" Adele Reinhartz, "The Happy Holy Family in the Jesus Film Genre" Tina Pippin, "Wisdom's Deviant Ways" Ute Eisen, "Boundary Transgression and the Extreme Point in Acts 10:1-11:18" Sheila Briggs, "Slavery and Gender" Antoinette Clark Wire, "Rising Voices: The Resurrection Witness of New Testament Non-Writers" Alicia Suskind Ostrker, "Jephthah's Daughter: A Lament"