Mapping gender in ancient religious discourses [electronic resource] / edited by Todd Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [511]-545) and indexes.

Mapping as metamorphosis : initial reflections on gender and ancient religious discourses / Virginia Burrus -- Still before sexuality : Greek androgyny, the Roman imperial politics of masculinity and the Roman invention of the Tribas / Diana M. Swancutt -- Gender and geopolitics in the work of Philo of Alexandria : Jewish piety and imperial family values / Mary Rose D'Angelo -- The rhetoric of magic in early Christian discourse : gender, power and the construction of heresy / Kimberly B. Stratton -- Before your very eyes : Roman imperial ideology, gender constructs and Paul's inter-nationalism / Davina C. Lopez -- Vice lists and deviant masculinity : the rhetorical function of 1 Corinthians 5:10-11 and 6:9-10 / Fredrik Ivarsson -- Novel men : masculinity and empire in Mark's Gospel and Xenophon's An Ephesian tale / Eric Thurman -- Script(ur)ing gender in Acts : the past and present power of Imperium / Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele -- From bedroom to courtroom : the adultery type-scene and the Acts of Andrew / Saundra Schwartz -- The rhetoric of the maternal body in the Passion of Perpetua / Judith Perkins -- Wearing it well : gender at work in the shadow of empire / Chris Frilingos -- He shall not look at a woman : gender in the Hekhalot literature / Rebecca Lesses -- Bodies in motion : preliminary notes on queer theory and Rabbinic literature / Gwynn Kessler -- Clement's bound body / Michel Desjardins -- Enslaved to demons : sex, violence and the apoloties of Justin Martyr / Jennifer Knust -- The seduction of weak men : Tertullian's rhetorical construction of gender and ancient Christian heresy / Brad Windon -- Men of learning : the cult of Paideia in Lucian's Alexander / Erik Gunderson.