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Tertullian De virginibus velandis : Übersetzung, Einleitung, Kommentar. Ein Beitrag zur altkirchlichen Frauenfrage
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ISBN: 3261013222 9783261013224 Year: 1974 Volume: 26


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The burden of the flesh : fasting and sexuality in early Christianity
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ISBN: 0800627652 9780800627652 Year: 1998 Publisher: Minneapolis (Minn.): Fortress

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Focusing on the fourth and early fifth centuries, Shaw considers three types of Christian arguments--physiological, psychological, and eschatological--about the efficacy of fasting in the ascetic pursuit of chastity. Demonstrating their connections also illumines relationships between body and belief, theory and behavior, and physical self-abnegation and theological speculation. In the process, Shaw examines a variety of texts from the seventh century b.c.e. to the seventh century c.e., including medical treatises, philosophical writings, Christian homilies, and theological treatises. Shaw provides a startling look at early Christian notions of the body--diet, sexuality, the passions, and especially the ideal of virginity--and sheds important light on the growth of Christian ideals that remain powerful cultural forces even today.

Den himmelska Föräldern : ett studium av kvinnans betydelse i och för Lars Levi Laestadius' teologi och förkunnelse
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ISBN: 9155421342 9789155421342 Year: 1988 Volume: 1 Publisher: Uppsala : Almqvist & Wiksell : Acta universitatis upsaliensis,

"Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs": Martin Luther's Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin, 1535-1545
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ISBN: 9004128948 9004473564 9789004128941 9789004473560 Year: 2003 Volume: 92 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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This work examines Martin Luther's interpretation of the female characters in the stories of Genesis, drawing attention to his appropriation of premodern catholic interpretations of the biblical "saints." In Luther's hands, many of these women became heroic examples of the godly life newly adapted to the worldly asceticism of emerging Protestantism. Their everyday sanctity, exercised for the most part within the limits Luther believed God had imposed on their sex, displayed the kind of piety he thought should animate Christian women in their own households. Two chapters evaluate Luther's interpretation of Eve, noting his understanding of the ideal relations between men and women. Five further chapters examine Sarah, Hagar, Rachel, the daughters and wife of Lot, and Potiphar's wife.

Roman wives, Roman widows : the appearance of new women and the Pauline communities.
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ISBN: 0802849717 9780802849717 Year: 2003 Publisher: Grand Rapids Eerdmans


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Würde und Rolle der Frau in der Spätantike : Beiträge des II. Würzburger Augustinus-Studientages am 3. Juli 2004.
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ISBN: 9783761302187 3761302185 Year: 2007 Volume: 39/3 3 Publisher: Würzburg Augustinus-Verlag bei echter

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Femme, gnose et manicheisme : de l'espace mythique au territoire du reel
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ISBN: 9004114521 9786610859054 1429426314 9047404017 1280859059 1433704943 9789004114524 9781429426312 Year: 2005 Volume: 53 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The present volume offers twelve studies dealing with feminine figures in Gnosticism and Manichaeism. In Part One ("Images et symboles"), the Author unveils the hidden meaning of some feminine figures having played a role on the mythical scene of those trends. Some of these figures, borrowed from other traditions, have been deeply reworked by Gnostics or Manichees assuming thereby a new significance. An intermezzo ("Passages") investigates the presence of women names in titles preserved in the Nag Hammadi Library and the relationship between a female protagonist and a specific literary genre. Part Two ("Histoire et réalité") reconstructs the portraits of some women, especially Manichaean, to whom the historical inquiry gives life again, thanks to a fresh reading of first hand sources, as well of heresiological or archeological testimonies. Some of these studies have been previously published and have now been significantly updated and expanded. Some others are lectures on Feminine in Gnosticism and Manichaeism given by the Author in Sorbonne, Paris, since 1994. *** Les douze études que rassemble ce volume abordent sous différentes facettes le personnage de la femme dans la gnose et dans le manichéisme. Dans la première partie (« Images et symboles »), l'Auteur dévoile la signification cachée de quelques figures féminines qui ont joué un rôle sur la scène du mythe. Si les auteurs gnostiques et manichéens ont emprunté certaines d'entre elles à d'autres traditions, ils ont toutefois remodelé ces figures en profondeur en les chargeant d'une nouvelle signification. La deuxième partie (« Passages ») s'interroge sur la présence de noms féminins dans les titres conservés de la bibliothèque de Nag Hammadi et sur la relation éventuelle entre une protagoniste féminine et le choix d'un genre littéraire. La troisième partie (« Histoire et réalité ») reconstruit les portraits de quelques femmes, surtout manichéennes, dont les traits effacés se précisent grâce à une lecture originale de la documentation directe et des sources hérésiologiques, grâce aussi à l'apport de l'archéologie. Une partie de ces études, publiée auparavant, paraît ici sous une forme largement amplifiée. D'autres reprennent les thèmes de conférences sur la femme dans le manichéisme, données par l'Auteur à la Sorbonne entre 1997 et 2002.

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