Specters of Paul: Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought

by Benjamin H. Dunning

The first Christians operated with a hierarchical model of sexual difference common to the ancient Mediterranean, with women considered to be lesser versions of men. Yet sexual difference was not completely stable as a conceptual category across the spectrum of formative Christian thinking. Rather, early Christians found ways to exercise theological creativity and to think differently from one another as they probed the enigma of sexually differentiated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243072
• ISBN13: 9780812243079
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"