Birthing salvation [electronic resource] : gender and class in early Christian childbearing discourse / by Anna Rebecca Solevag.
By: Solevåg, Anna Rebecca
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TextSeries: Biblical interpretation series: v. 121.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004257788 (electronic book); 9789004254978 (hardback : alk. paper); 9004254978 (hardback : alk. paper); 9004257780 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Salvation -- Biblical teaching | Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism | Childbirth -- Biblical teaching | Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etcLOC classification: BS2545.S25 | S64 2013Online resources: Click here to access online Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index.Summary: In 'Birthing Salvation' Anna Rebecca Solevåg explores the theme of childbearing in early Christian discourse. The book maps the importance of women's childbearing in Greco-Roman culture and shows how childbearing discourse interfaces with salvation discourse in three early Christian texts: the Pastoral Epistles, the Acts of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Issues of gender and class are explored through an intersectional analysis. In particular, the institution of slavery, and its implications for ideas about salvation in these texts are drawn out. Birthing Salvation offers fresh interpretations of these texts, including the peculiar statement in 1 Tim 2:15 that women "will be saved through childbearing."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index.
In 'Birthing Salvation' Anna Rebecca Solevåg explores the theme of childbearing in early Christian discourse. The book maps the importance of women's childbearing in Greco-Roman culture and shows how childbearing discourse interfaces with salvation discourse in three early Christian texts: the Pastoral Epistles, the Acts of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Issues of gender and class are explored through an intersectional analysis. In particular, the institution of slavery, and its implications for ideas about salvation in these texts are drawn out. Birthing Salvation offers fresh interpretations of these texts, including the peculiar statement in 1 Tim 2:15 that women "will be saved through childbearing."
