TY  - BOOK
AU  - Solevag,Anna Rebecca
TI  - Birthing salvation: gender and class in early Christian childbearing discourse 
T2  - Biblical Interpretation Series
SN  - 9004254978 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - BS2545.S25 S64 2013
U1  - 261.8/358743 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christian literature, Early
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Salvation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In 'Birthing Salvation' Anna Rebecca Solevåg explores the theme of childbearing in early Christian discourse. The book maps the importance of women's childbearing in Greco-Roman culture and shows how childbearing discourse interfaces with salvation discourse in three early Christian texts: the Pastoral Epistles, the Acts of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Issues of gender and class are explored through an intersectional analysis. In particular, the institution of slavery, and its implications for ideas about salvation in these texts are drawn out. Birthing Salvation offers fresh interpretations of these texts, including the peculiar statement in 1 Tim 2:15 that women "will be saved through childbearing."
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004257788
ER  -