Dr Gillian Beattie is a graduate of the University of St. Andrews and Princeton Theological Seminary. She received her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2003.

"Beattie's discussion of the Nag Hamadi Texts will interest scholarly colleagues...A quote from Richard Rorty...sums up Beattie's goal: ‘Reading texts is a matter of reading them in the light of other texts, people, obsessions, bits of information, or what have you and seeing what happens' (160). In short, her focus on the importance of context and the vital role played by the presuppositions and interests of individuals and communities in both the writing and reading of texts has ongoing value not only for the scholarly reader, but more particularly, for the non-specialist." - J. Dorcas Gordon, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Fall 2008

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Marriage in 1 Corinthians; Chapter 2: Women in 1 Corinthians; Chapter 3: Marriage in the Deutero-Pauline Literature: Colossians and Ephesians; Chapter 4: Women in the Deutero-Pauline Literature: The Pastoral Epistles; Chapter 5: Marriage in the Nag Hammadi Texts; Chapter 6: Women and Feminine Imagery in the Nag Hammadi; Texts; Conclusion.

Dr Gillian Beattie is a graduate of the University of St. Andrews and Princeton Theological Seminary. She received her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2003.

"Beattie's discussion of the Nag Hamadi Texts will interest scholarly colleagues...A quote from Richard Rorty...sums up Beattie's goal: ‘Reading texts is a matter of reading them in the light of other texts, people, obsessions, bits of information, or what have you and seeing what happens' (160). In short, her focus on the importance of context and the vital role played by the presuppositions and interests of individuals and communities in both the writing and reading of texts has ongoing value not only for the scholarly reader, but more particularly, for the non-specialist." - J. Dorcas Gordon, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Fall 2008

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Marriage in 1 Corinthians; Chapter 2: Women in 1 Corinthians; Chapter 3: Marriage in the Deutero-Pauline Literature: Colossians and Ephesians; Chapter 4: Women in the Deutero-Pauline Literature: The Pastoral Epistles; Chapter 5: Marriage in the Nag Hammadi Texts; Chapter 6: Women and Feminine Imagery in the Nag Hammadi; Texts; Conclusion.

Dr Gillian Beattie is a graduate of the University of St. Andrews and Princeton Theological Seminary. She received her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2003.

"Beattie's discussion of the Nag Hamadi Texts will interest scholarly colleagues...A quote from Richard Rorty...sums up Beattie's goal: ‘Reading texts is a matter of reading them in the light of other texts, people, obsessions, bits of information, or what have you and seeing what happens' (160). In short, her focus on the importance of context and the vital role played by the presuppositions and interests of individuals and communities in both the writing and reading of texts has ongoing value not only for the scholarly reader, but more particularly, for the non-specialist." - J. Dorcas Gordon, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Fall 2008

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Marriage in 1 Corinthians; Chapter 2: Women in 1 Corinthians; Chapter 3: Marriage in the Deutero-Pauline Literature: Colossians and Ephesians; Chapter 4: Women in the Deutero-Pauline Literature: The Pastoral Epistles; Chapter 5: Marriage in the Nag Hammadi Texts; Chapter 6: Women and Feminine Imagery in the Nag Hammadi; Texts; Conclusion.