The Lost Coin Parables of Women, Work, and

Not only fills a gap in the scholarly literature on parables, but brings to life vignettes from ancient Mediterranean women's lives and offers insights into the place of women in the ministry of Jesus, the early church, and Christian theology.

Abbreviations

9

(2)

List of Contributors

11

(2)

Foreword

13

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Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Introduction: Seeking the `Lost Coin' of Parables about Women

17

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Mary Ann Beavis

I `Lost' Parables of Women

`Swept Under the Rug': Feminist Homiletical Reflections on the Parable of the Lost Coin (Lk. 15.8--9)

34

(5)

Linda Maloney

Joy in Heaven, Sorrow on Earth: Luke 15.10

39

(7)

Mary Ann Beavis

Proclaiming the Parable of the Persistent Widow (Lk. 18.2--5)

46

(25)

Mary W. Matthews

Carter Shelley

Barbara Scheele

Opening the Closed Door: A Feminist Rereading of the `Wise and Foolish Virgins' (Mt. 25.1--13)

71

(27)

Vicky Balabanski

`Making Up Stories': A Feminist Reading of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk. 15.11b-32)

98

(26)

Mary Ann Beavis

II Parables of Women's Work

Patched Garments and Ruined Wine: Whose Folly? (Mk 2.21--22; Mt. 9.16--17; Lk. 5.36--37)

124

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Pheme Perkins

`Women's Work in the Realm of God' (Mt. 13.33; Lk. 13.20, 21; Gos. Thom. 96; Mt. 6.28--30; Lk. 12.27--28; Gos. Thom. 36)

136

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Holly Hearon

Antoinette Clark Wire

The Woman Carrying a Jar of Meal (Gos. Thom. 97)

158

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Kamila Blessing

The Language of Mother Work in the Gospel of Thomas: Keeping Momma out of the Kingdom (Gos. Thom. 22)

174

(22)

Kathleen Nash

Who Is the Faithful Steward? Luke 12.41--45

196

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Deborah Core

III Johannine Metaphors of Mother and Bride

The (Pro)creative Parables of Labour and Childbirth (Jn 3.1--10 and 16.21--22)

206

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Kathleen Rushton

The `Bride' in John 3.29: A Feminist Rereading

230

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Adele Reinhartz

IV Parables of Wisdom/Sophia

Jesus/Holy Mother Wisdom (Mt. 23.37--39)

244

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Elaine Guillemin

The Enigma of the Yoke: Declining in Parables (Mt. 11.28--30)

268

(19)

Edith M. Humphrey

Wisdom's Children Justified (Mt. 11.16--19; Lk. 7.31--35)

287

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Barbara E. Reid

V Finding Parable

Gathering: A Mythic Parable

308

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Christin Lore Weber

Bibliography

313

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Index of References

328

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Index of Authors

340

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