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Ciphers in the sand : interpretations of the woman taken in adultery (John 7.53-8.11) / edited by Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke.

Contributor(s): Kreitzer, L. Joseph (Larry Joseph) | Rooke, Deborah W
Material type: TextTextSeries: Biblical seminar: 74.Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, 2000Description: 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1841271411Subject(s): Bible. John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Adultery -- Biblical teaching | Adultery in literature | Women in the Bible | Non-consensual non-monogamy | Non-monogamyBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: the cultural reception of John 7.53-8.11 / Jane Shaw -- Wayward women and broken promises: marriage, adultery and mercy in Old and New Testaments / Deborah W. Rooke -- On the trail of a good story: John 7.53-8.11 in the Gospel tradition / J. Martin C. Scott -- A woman's plight and the Western Fathers / Thomas O'Loughlin -- A place for mercy: some allegorical readings of 'The woman taken in adultery' from the early Middle Ages (with particular reference to Bede, the Heliand and the Exeter Book) / Mark Atherton -- 'Revealing the affairs of the heart': sin, accusation and confession in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Larry J. Kreitzer -- The one that got away / Jayne Scott -- Making her case and reading it too: feminist readings of the story of the woman taken in adultery / Elizabeth E. Green.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: the cultural reception of John 7.53-8.11 / Jane Shaw -- Wayward women and broken promises: marriage, adultery and mercy in Old and New Testaments / Deborah W. Rooke -- On the trail of a good story: John 7.53-8.11 in the Gospel tradition / J. Martin C. Scott -- A woman's plight and the Western Fathers / Thomas O'Loughlin -- A place for mercy: some allegorical readings of 'The woman taken in adultery' from the early Middle Ages (with particular reference to Bede, the Heliand and the Exeter Book) / Mark Atherton -- 'Revealing the affairs of the heart': sin, accusation and confession in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Larry J. Kreitzer -- The one that got away / Jayne Scott -- Making her case and reading it too: feminist readings of the story of the woman taken in adultery / Elizabeth E. Green.

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