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THE DOUBLE MESSAGE THE DOUBLE MESSAGE Patterns of Gender in Luke-Acts TURID KARLSEN SEIM 1blished by T&T Clark International Continuum imprint 1e Tower Building, ll York Road, London SE1 7NX ; East 26th Street, Suite 1703, New York, NY 10010 ;;;w. tandtclark.com Jpyright © T&T Clark, 1990 rst published 1994 in the Studies of the Old Testament and Its World Series 1is edition published 2004 ll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, cording or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in riting from the publishers. ritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library :BN 0567082563 (paperback) ypeset by Trinity Typesetting, Edinburgh :inted on acid-free paper in Great Britain by The Bath Press, Bath Contents Acknowledgements IX Chapter One: Prolegomena: Luke and Women 1 Chapter Two: Men As Well As Women 11 Chapter Three: Do You See This Woman? 25 The women from Galilee 25 'Abraham's daughters'-healed by Jesus 39 Women-healed to serve the family of God 57 ' ... with what they owned.' The realisation of possessions and the sustenance of the community 77 Women as models in service 81 The acts of women as a corrective to the leadership 88 Chapter Four: Remember How He Told You... 97 In the conflict between word and table 97 -to hear the word of the Lord . . . 112 'Domestic' women 118 The women at the cross and grave 147 Chapter Five: Prophesying Daughters 164 Chapter Six: ... They Neither Marry, Nor Do They Give Themselves in Marriage 185 Ascetic elements of the period 186 Virgin and mother 198 The sons of the resurrection 208 ' ... and she had lived as a widow since then' 229 Chapter Seven: Concluding Summary: The Double Message 249 Bibliography 261 Index 285 Acknowledgements The frail beginning of this book goes back many years to a seminar some students encouraged me to do in the early eighties on 'Women in the Gospels'. Since then the proje!:t has come a long way, and the original Norwegian version on which this English version is based, was completed in 1990 as a doctoral thesis at the University of Oslo. Hope fully it still reflects how my scholarly identity is based in a positive affirmation of womanhood, a commitment to equal partnership be tween women and men, a keen theological interest-and faithfulness to the exegetical skill I once was taught. Since 1991 I have been the Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo during a period of significant changes in the life of the faculty. I would have wanted to revise the text further and espe cially to up-date it. I regret that the constant administrative demands have made this impossible so that literature appearing during the very last years is not included. A book remains the responsibility of its author. But the working process by which it has come into being still is a project where many have contributed knowingly or unknowingly. I have been nurtured by the active and cross-disciplinary community of women at the university while at the same time savouring the wisdom, knowledge and encour agement of my native 'fathers' and fellows in the New Testament, of whom I would like to mention Prof. Nils A. Dahl, Prof. Jacob Jervell, Prof. Edvin Larsson and Prof. Halvor Moxnes. My Danish friend and colleague, lecturer Bente Bagger Larsen, another member of 'the Lukan community', has never ceased to encourage me, and I make her the representative of all those here not named to whom I am greatly in debted. The work involved would not have been possible without the finan cial support granted partly by my own faculty and partly by what used to be the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humani ties. The Research Council also funded the translation of the original Norwegian version into English. This translation was energetically un dertaken by Or Brian McNeil. The indices I owe to the diligent accu racy of cand. philol. Vemund Blomkvist who did them at very short ix THE DOUBLE MESSAGE notice. Finally, I am indeed grateful to Prof. John Riches for including my contribution in this series. For their patience with an absent-minded mother who at times ap pears to live in the past rather than in the present, and for their un yielding and obstinate faith in the future, this book is dedicated to my two daughters, Ingrid and Runhild Seim. Oslo, Summer 1994 Turid Karlsen Seim X
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