Gender in the rhetoric of Jesus : women in Q / Sara Parks.

Author/creator Parks, Sara, 1973- author.
Format Book
PublicationLanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, [2019]
Copyright Date©2019
Descriptionix, 191 pages ; 24 cm
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Abstract "Examining the hypothetical earliest layer of Jesus' sayings known as Q, Sara Parks argues that Jesus deliberately crafted parabolic teachings regarding the basileia of God to appeal to both male and female adherents. For a century after Q, vestiges of gender-paired teachings popped up in multiple independent texts related to Jesus, from Mark to Paul to the Synoptics and John-making it more likely that this inclusion of women originated with Jesus himself. In this book, Parks engages the divided scholarship on the meaning of gendered pairs for an evaluation of the gender politics of Q, arguing that even though Q's peculiar rhetoric of gender equality was an innovation, it was also a product of its time, as evidenced in other contemporaneous texts which struggled with ambiguous equalities, from Philo to Musonius Rufus to Joseph and Aseneth. In addition, she shows that Jesus' rhetoric of gender, as remembered in Q constitutes some of the earliest evidence for the study of first-century Jewish women, and women in Christian origins"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and indexes.
Issued in other formOnline version: Parks, Sara. Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus. Lanham : Fortress Academic, 2019 9781978701991
ISBN9781978701984 (cloth)
ISBN1978701985 (cloth)
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Joyner General Stacks BT303.2 .P367 2019 ✔ Available Place Hold