Bodies, Borders, Believers

Anne Hege Grung is an Associate Professor at the Practical Theological Seminary in Oslo. She is the author of Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings.Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is Professor of New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. She is the author of Gossip and Gender and Destabilizing the Margins.Anna Rebecca Solevåg is Associate Professor at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway. She is the author of Birthing Salvation.

• Acknowledgments Contributors IntroductionPart 1- Visions across Time and Space 1 Comparative Study of Gendered Strategies to Represent the Sacrality of the Group: Philo of Alexandria and a Korean-American Presbyterian Church / Karen L. King 2 No Sex in Heaven - Nor on Earth? Luke 20:27-38 as a Proof-Text in Early Christian Discourses on Resurrection and Asceticism / Outi Lehtipuu 3 The Body of God and the Corpus of Historiography: The Life of Aphou of Pemdje and the Anthropomorphite Controversy / Hugo Lundhaug 4 Rewritten Eve Traditions in the Apocryphon of John / Antti Marjanen 5 Sub Luce Videantur: The Time of Light in Early Renaissance Painting / Per Sigurd Tveitevag Styve Part 2 - Life Stages and Transformations 6 The Transformation of Aseneth / John J. Collins 7 'The Springtime of the Body': Resurrection in Minucius Felix's Octavius / Ingvild S.lid Gilhus 8 Like Father Like Son: Reassessing Constructions of Fatherhood in Ephesians in Light of Cultural Interests in Family Continuity / Margaret Y. MacDonald 9 Salvation as Slavery, Marriage and Birth: Does the Metaphor Matter? / Anna Rebecca Solevag 10 Embodying the Female Body Politic: Pro-Papal Reception of Ephesians 5 in the Later Middle Ages / Line Cecilie Engh Part 3 - Contested Dynamics of Community 11 Opportunities and Limits for Women in Early Christianity / Adela Yarbro Collins 12 Emotional Bonds and Roles of the Priestesses of Vesta / Katariina Mustakallio 13 Impedimentum sexus: The Cultic Impediment of Female Humanity / Kari Elisabeth Borresen 14 The Dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans: Its Development and Prospects / Andre Birmele 15 The Unity of Life: The Statement on Unity from the 10th WCC Assembly Busan, 2013 / Olav Fykse Tveit 16 D iaconal Ministry in the Diaconal Church: Reflections on the Interrelationship between Ministerial Theology and Ecclesiology / Stephanie Dietrich Part 4 - Patterns of Ambiguity 17 Placing Men in the Double Message of Luke's Gospel / Halvor Moxnes 18 Two Mothers: Veturia and Mary; Two Sons: Coriolanus and Jesus / David L. Balch 19 Seeds of Violence or Buds of Peace? Faith Resources for Creating a New Peace Consciousness and Culture / Ursula King 20 Reproductive Capital and Slave Surrogacy: Thinking about/with/beyond Hagar / Marianne Bjelland Kartzow 21 Die prasentisch-immanente Wirkung des Zornes Gottes (Romer 1,21-32) / David Hellholm 22 'Saved through Childbirth? That's Not What the Koran Says.' Muslim and Christian Women in Norway Making Meaning of 1 Tim 2:8-15 / Anne Hege Grung Bibliography of the Publications of Turid Karlsen Seim

"These articles refuse to be segregated on one side of any border, present conversations setting parameters for complementary readings of Scriptures, ancient texts complicating contemporary categories, thus embodying the pioneering spirit of the scholar honored by this strong, consistent, genre-defying collection."Jennifer A. Glancy, author of 'Slavery in Early Christianity and Corporal Knowledge: Early Christian Bodies'"A tribute to the first woman with a doctoral degree in theology from a Norwegian university, by some of her students and colleagues, this volume showcases the broad orientation of Seim's theological interests spanning from exegesis via social reception history to ecumenical theology. It also presents samples of what is by now a coherent trajectory: the 'Oslo School' of gender-critical work on early Christian texts - one of whose main inspirations is Professor Seim herself!"Jorunn Økland, Professor of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies in the Humanities, University of Oslo"In this remarkable collection, international scholars of the Bible, church history, art history, classics, archaeology, and ecumenical dialogue follow Seim's model of nuanced interpretation in 'The Double Message: Patterns of Gender in Luke-Acts'. Luke features women prominently but simultaneously subordinates them. In this volume, scholars take the body seriously as a site for theologizing; explore the borders between life and death, women and men, and Christians and Muslims; and discuss how belief can unite, not just divide."Bernadette J. Brooten, Robert and Myra Kraft Professor of Christian Studies, Brandeis University