A Feminist Companion to the Acts of the Apostles

The ninth volume in this series deals with the second part of Luke''s narrative: the Acts of the Apostles. In this diverse collection, Janice Capel Anderson, James Arlandson, Virginia Burrus, Karen Torjesen, Beverly Gavanta, Musimbi Kanyoro, Dennis MacDonald, Shelly Matthews, Todd Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele, Robert Price, Barbara Reid, Scott Spencer, Jeffrey Staley, and Kathy Chambers utilize a variety of approaches to address issues of ethnicity and class, economic and social status, speech and silence, comedy and tragedy, construction of masculinity, mission and post-colonial response, literary influences both behind and in front of the text.>

About the author

Amy-Jill Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion, and director of the Carpenter Program in religion, gender and sexuality in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Marianne Blickenstaff has a Ph.D. in New Testament from Vanderbilt University, and is Biblical Reference Editor at Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN. She is co-editor, with Amy-Jill Levine, of the Feminist Companion to the New Testament series (T&T Clark).

Product details

• Authors: Amy-Jill Levine
• Assisted by: Marianne Blickenstaff (Editor), Amy-Jill Levine (Editor), Levine Amy-Jill (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2004
• EAN: 9780826462527
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-6252-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Feminist Companion to the New; Feminist Companion to the New; Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Religion, philosophy, psychology; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / Christianity, Bibles & bible stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Christianity, Bible readings, selections and meditations