A Feminist Companion to Mariology |
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| Author:
| Levine, Amy-Jill
Robbins,
Robbins, Maria Mayo |
| Series title: | Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8264-6661-7 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2005 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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| Imprint: | T&T Clark |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $260.00 |
Book Description:
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The twelve essays in this volume explore, through various approaches, not only the biblical portraits of Mary but also both "the quest for the historical Mary" and the understandings of those portraits through the centuries. Valerie Abrahamsen, Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, John Dominic Crossan, Mary F. Foskett, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Deirdre Good, Jorunn Økland, Jane Schaberg, George H. Tavard, John van den Hengel, Pieter W. van der Horst, and George T. Zervos offer...
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The twelve essays in this volume explore, through various approaches, not only the biblical portraits of Mary but also both "the quest for the historical Mary" and the understandings of those portraits through the centuries.
Valerie Abrahamsen, Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, John Dominic Crossan, Mary F. Foskett, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Deirdre Good, Jorunn Økland, Jane Schaberg, George H. Tavard, John van den Hengel, Pieter W. van der Horst, and George T. Zervos offer contributions that address such topics as the understandings of sexuality, the divine feminine, soteriology, first-century social history, christology, Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox hermeneutics, ecumenical and interfaith relations, and the meaning of "virginity."
Volume 10 of the Feminist Companions to the Bible Series