Women in Their Place Paul and the Corinthian

Jorunn Okland provides and informed and illuminating examination of what Paul can tell us about divisions between sanctuary and other space, about men and women, and about ideas of private and public.

Jorunn Okland is a Lecturer in the Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England

Acknowledgments

viii

List of Illustrations

x

Introduction

1

(5)

Background Issues

1

(2)

Overview of the Book

3

(3)

From Woman to `Woman', from Church to Ekklesia Space, from Text to Context

6

(33)

Feminist Readings of 11.2-16 and 14.33b-36--the Problem of Paul and Women

6

(6)

Woman

12

(10)

Deconstructing Paul, or: `Paul' from Center to Crossroads

22

(9)

Space and Ritual

31

(7)

Conclusion

38

(1)

Gender Aetiologies and the Discursive Construction of Spaces

39

(39)

Introduction

39

(1)

Graeco-Roman Discourses of Gender Aetiology

40

(18)

Discourses of Space

58

(19)

Conclusion

77

(1)

Places for Women in Early Roman Corinth's Ritual and Sanctuary Spaces

78

(53)

Introduction

78

(2)

Next to the Goddesses - behind the Walls: Demeter and Kore

80

(12)

A Discourse of Containment

92

(19)

The Frenzied Female

111

(7)

The Wife of the Israelite: The God of Israel

118

(4)

No Place: Apollo

122

(1)

A Discourse of Gender and Ritual/Sanctuary Space in Early Roman Corinth

123

(8)

Placing the Christian Gatherings: Paul and the Discourse of Sanctuary Space

131

(37)

Introduction: The Corinthian Ekklesia as Sanctuary Space

131

(2)

Traces of Ritual and Sanctuary Discourse in 1 Corinthians

133

(2)

Ekklesia

135

(2)

The Distinction between Ekklesia Space and Oikia Space

137

(6)

Ekklesia as Ritually Constructed Space

143

(6)

1 Corinthians 14.34-35

149

(3)

Ekklesia-Space as Sanctuary

152

(7)

1 Corinthians in the Discourses of Sanctuary Space

159

(7)

Conclusion

166

(2)

Corinthian Order

168

(56)

Introduction. Gender in the Sanctuary Space of Ekklesia

168

(2)

Cosmic Gender Hierarchy

170

(18)

Manifestations of the Cosmic Structure in Ekklesia Space

188

(13)

`Speech Genders' (1 Corinthians 14.33-37)

201

(7)

The Antistructure of Communitas

208

(2)

Conclusion of 6.1-6.5

210

(1)

The Representation of Ekklesia as Male Space

211

(6)

Conclusion: Integration and Segregation, Sameness and Difference

217

(7)

Paul in the Early Roman Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space: Obedient and Subversive

224

(23)

Sanctuary Space as Representation of Cosmos

225

(5)

Paul and the Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space

230

(5)

The Tensions and Contradictions between Ancient Gender Models as Productive Factors and Sources of Subversiveness

235

(6)

Actors in a Discourse: Paul, His Texts, His Readers and Their Culturally Possible Response

241

(4)

Epilogue

245

(2)

Appendix 1 More About the Various Sanctuary Spaces

247

(5)

Demeter and Persephone in Greek Corinth

247

(2)

Isis and Sarapis

249

(1)

Imperial Cult

249

(1)

Asclepius

250

(2)

Appendix 2 More About the Various Types of Texts

252

(6)

Authors from Roman Times

252

(2)

Excavated Material

254

(4)

Appendix 3 Illustrations

258

(8)

Bibliography

266

(52)

Ancient Authors

266

(5)

Modern Bible Versions

271

(1)

Collections of Non-literary Texts Referred to in Abbreviated Form

272

(1)

Main Bibliography

272

(46)

Indexes

318

Index of References

318

(6)

Index of Authors

324

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Women in Their Place Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space

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