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Gender and Sexuality in the Pauline Letters*
Summer 2013
The Pauline Letters present various statements on women, men, and male-female relations, all of which have been extremely influential. Some of them have even posed particular problems for many contemporary churches, informed the formation of societal gender roles, and served as ammunition in debates on issues such as marriage and homosexuality. This class will explore these texts in detail including, but not limited to, the historical context, rhetorical analysis, and Paul’s first century audience. We will also engage secondary literature (monographs, articles, essays, etc.), and discuss the consequences (both positive and negative) of the contemporary application of these passages.
Monday, June 3 through Friday, June 7, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Required Texts
Students are expected to do the assigned reading in preparation for the first day of class as specified. (See class schedule in the syllabus.) We will read and discuss these texts during the week. Additional articles and essays will also be distributed.
- Sandra Polaski, A Feminist Introduction to Paul (St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2005).mith 2
- Victor Paul Furnish, The Moral Teaching of Paul: Selected Issues (Nashville: Abingdon, 2009 [3rd ed., rev.]).
- Dale B. Martin, Sex and the Single Savior (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006).
Please be sure to bring a Bible to every class. We will use the New Revised Standard Version. Students are encouraged to use Harold W. Attridge, ed. The Harper Collins Study Bible. New Revised Standard Version (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006). However, other acceptable NRS translations that provide study notes developed for the academic study of the Bible, such as the Oxford Annotated Study Bible or the New Interpreter’s Study Bible, are acceptable.
Recommended Texts
The following books are recommended. Students may wish to purchase them for their personal libraries.
- Teresa Hornsby, Sex Texts from the Bible: Selections Annotated & Explained (Woodstock, VT: SkyLight Paths Pub., 2007).
- Jennifer Wright Knust, Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire (New York: HarperOne, 2011).
- Amy-Jill Levine, ed. with Marianne Blickenstaff, A Feminist Companion to Paul: The Deutero-Pauline Epistles (New York: T & T Clark International, 2004).
- William Loader, The New Testament on Sexuality (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012).
- Joseph A. Marchal, The Politics of Heaven: Women, Gender, and Empire in the Study of Paul (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2008).
- Joseph A. Marchal, ed., Studying Paul's Letters: Contemporary Perspectives and Methods (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012).
- Jorunn Økland, Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space (New York: T & T Clark, 2004).
- Christopher D. Stanley, ed., The Colonized Apostle: Paul through Postcolonial Eyes (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011).