Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space

by Jorunn Økland, Jorunn ?kland, Jorunn Okland

Book Overview

In Women in Their Place Jorunn kland takes the archaeological remains at Corinth as a starting point from which to develop an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed reading of Paul's utterances on women in 1 Corinthians 11-14. In this section of the letter Paul deals with the ritual gatherings and describes the ekklesia as a of ritual space distinct from domestic space.

kland assesses the text within a larger context of four different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567084078
• ISBN13: 9780567084071
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"