Destabilizing the Margins: An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory - Hardcover

Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498261620 ISBN 13: 9781498261623

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

In this book Marianne Bjelland Kartzow suggests that ideas taken from recent discussions of multiple identities and intersectionality, combined with insights from memory theory, can renew our engagement with biblical texts. Some marginal early Christian passages, and what the scholarly community has reconstructed of their historical contexts, are encountered, looking for alternative ways these texts can produce meaning. A fresh look at some marginal biblical figures--such as male and female slaves who are beaten by a fellow slave, the queer figure of the Ethiopian eunuch, foreign Egyptian women, rebellious widows, or a possessed fortune-telling slave girl--can help biblical users to talk in more critical and creative ways about responsibility, identity, injustice, violence, inclusion/exclusion, and the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class. These perspectives may be relevant for those who see the New Testament as Christian canon or as cultural canon, or as both.

About this title

About the Author

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is Senior Research Fellow within the project Jesus in Cultural Complexity at the University of Oslo, supported by the Research Council of Norway. She is the author of Gossip and Gender: Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles (2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498261620
• ISBN 13: 9781498261623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218