Carolyn Osiek – författare

In a time when the ordination of women is an ongoing and passionate debate, the study of women's ministry in the early church is a timely and significant one. There is much evidence from documents, doctrine, and artifacts that supports the acceptance of women as presbyters and deacons in the early church. While this evidence has been published previously, it has never before appeared in one complete English-language collection. With this book, church historians Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek present fully translated literary, epigraphical, and canonical references to women in early church offices. Through these documents, Madigan and Osiek seek to understand who these women were and how they related to and were received by, the church through the sixth century. They chart women's participation in church office and their eventual exclusion from its leadership roles. The editors introduce each document with a detailed headnote that contextualizes the text and discusses specific issues of interpretation and meaning. They also provide bibliographical notes and cross-reference original texts. Madigan and Osiek assemble relevant material from both Western and Eastern Christendom.

Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to scholarship and teaching. Topics range from the life of early Christian house churches to the kinds of challenges that early Christians needed to negotiate in their artistic and literary worlds as they established their own identity. ContributorsEdward AdamsFrederick E BrenkWarren CarterJohn R. ClarkeEverett FergusonJohn T. FitzgeraldRichard A. FreundRonald F. HockRobin M. JensenDavina C. LopezMargaret Y. MacDonaldAbraham J. MalherbeAliou Cisse NiangPeter OakesTodd PennerLeo G. PerdueTurid Karlsen SeimDennis E. SmithYancy W. SmithStephen V. SprinkleHal TaussigOliver Larry Yarbrough

The stories in the Bible continue to be told and retold, learned and loved by every generation and every age level. Here are some of the most popular and some that seldom get much attention, all told from a different perspective, for young readers to get to know these wonderful people of the Bible and learn how to tell their own stories about them.

How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women’s religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new case studies of women and ancient religions in the Near East and Mediterranean world. They cover a broad historical, geographic, and religious spectrum as they explore women’s lives from the time of ancient Egypt in the second millennium BCE into the early medieval period, from the Syrian Desert to Western Europe, in the religious traditions of Egypt, Canaan, Greece, Rome, ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early Christianity. Working at the intersections of religion, archaeology, art history, and women’s history, these authors make fresh contributions to interdisciplinary studies, and their essays will be of interest to students and scholars across these academic fields.

How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women’s religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new case studies of women and ancient religions in the Near East and Mediterranean world. They cover a broad historical, geographic, and religious spectrum as they explore women’s lives from the time of ancient Egypt in the second millennium BCE into the early medieval period, from the Syrian Desert to Western Europe, in the religious traditions of Egypt, Canaan, Greece, Rome, ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early Christianity. Working at the intersections of religion, archaeology, art history, and women’s history, these authors make fresh contributions to interdisciplinary studies, and their essays will be of interest to students and scholars across these academic fields.

Mujeres con autoridad en el cristianismo antiguo nos acerca a distintos modelos de ejercer la autoridad y el poder por parte de las mujeres en el cristianismo antiguo.No trata de interpretar el hoy desde el ayer, ni de buscar en el ayer argumentos o legitimación de las imperiosas necesidades del hoy. Sencillamente, muestra la continuidad en el ejercicio de la auctoritas, incluso de una cierta potestas, por parte de las mujeres, y hace notar los condicionamientos sociales y culturales, determinados y establecidos por los varones, a los que ha estado y aún está sometido el ejercicio pleno de su autoridad y poder. Quiere también hacer visibles las resistencias y las luchas ante la negación o la pérdida de la potestas oficial, y la creatividad que a lo largo del tiempo desarrollaron las mujeres para seguir ejerciéndola de formas diversas, y hacer así plenamente fructífera su auctoritas.

El Nuevo Testamento es una obra de gran importancia en la cultura occidental, pero a menudo resulta poco accesible para los estudiantes por las enormes diferencias entre el mundo moderno y el antiguo mundo mediterráneo en que fue escrito. Para poder entender y apreciar plenamente los libros que conforman el Nuevo Testamento, es absolutamente necesario desarrollar un entendimiento transcultural de los valores de aquella sociedad mediterránea de la que surgieron. Dietmar Neufeld y Richard E. DeMaris han logrado reunir a biblistas con conocimientos de ciencias sociales con el fin de desarrollar modelos interpretativos que permitan entender conceptos como colectivismo, parentesco, memoria, etnicidad y honor para mostrar cómo aplicar esos modelos a los textos neotestamentarios. El parentesco es ilustrado con el análisis de la Sagrada Familia así como de las primeras organizaciones cristianas; el género, con el estudio de las ideas de Pablo sobre la mujer; y el paisaje y la espacialidad, con una exposición sobre Jesús de Nazaret. Este libro es el compañero ideal para el estudio del Nuevo Testamento.