Author

Publication

2023 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Language

English

Word Count

50,500 words, Guess

Page Count

202 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781978702004
  • ISBN-101978702000
  • Better World Books9781978702004
  • Open LibraryOL48181468M

Classifications

  • LCCBS2555.6

Description

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 Gender and the Rhetoric of Jesus, 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.

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  • Gender in the Rhetoric of JesusRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated2023

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