The Women in Life of the Bridegroom

This book sheds new light on the women in the Fourth Gospel. Unlike most works that approach the topic from a historical-critical perspective, this book approaches the topic from a historical-literary perspective and attempts to illustrate for the modern reader how a first-century reader would have understood the characterizations of the women, given first-century cultural and literary norms and the theology of the implied author. The thesis of this book is that the primary purpose of the women in the Fourth Gospel is to support the portrayal of Jesus as the Messianic Bridegroom and further the plot of Jesus' giving the people the power to become children of God (John 1:12). This historical-literary analysis exposes a highly androcentric and patriarchal text, which leads the author in the end to question current assumptions that behind the text exists a community or school whose egalitarianism extended to women.

Author: Adeline Fehribach, Gerald Caron, Aldina Da Silva
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 10/01/1998
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.96w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780814658840

About the Author
Fehribach, Adeline: - Adeline Fehribach, SCN, is assistant professor of religion at Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky. She has taught biblical studies on both the high school and college levels. She has also served as a campus minister and as a pastoral associate and director of a lay ministers' program in Belize, Central America.

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