Woman and Nation an Intercontextual Reading of the Gospel of John

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-391-04212-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

Kim reads the Gospel of John from a postcolonial feminist perspective as a patriarchal nationalist discourse. The author examines effects of colonialism in twentieth-century Korean cultural experience, as seen in social memory (pervasive, emotional, nonlinear experience of the collective) or oral traditions, to develop an intercontextual lens through which she examines the role of the Johannine female characters in supporting Jesus’s role as a national hero and in functioning as continuers of the nation. In her unique handling of the Gospel of John, the author describes how John’s resistance to Roman imperial power defines and shapes the boundaries of his Jewish nationalism in relation to the symbolic meanings attached to the female characters’ sexuality and gender roles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Jean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Jean K. Kim, Ph.D. (2001) in Religion, Vanderbilt University, is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Moravian Theological Seminary. She has published numerous articles on John and Paul including Uncovering Her Wickedness, (Journal for the Study of the New Testament,1999).