Jesus Was a Feminist: What the Gospels Reveal about His Revolutionary Perspective

Leonard Swidler

doi:10.5771/9781461635543

Summary

The result of four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist compellingly presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, and he boldly broke the customs of his day to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar and leader among liberal Catholics Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two of the gospels, and outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry and the creation and development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist and modern Christians should be too.

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Edition: 1/2007
Copyright Year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-1-58051-218-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-3554-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 276
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. A Conclusion Sneak Preview No access
The Plan No access Pages 1 - 4
1. 1: Prologue: Women in the Ancient World No access
2. 1. Eshua was a Feminist No access
  2. An "Androgynous" Yeshua No access
3. 3: Women in Yeshua's Language No access
4. 4: Women in Yeshua's Teaching No access
5. 5: Women in the Life of Yeshua No access
1. 1. The Gospel according to Mark No access
  2. The Gospel according to Matthew No access
  3. The Gospel according to Luke No access
  4. The Fourth Gospel No access
  5. Yeshua: The "Origin" of the Churches No access
2. 7: Conclusions No access
1. 8: Summary Analysis of the Appendixes of the New Testament Outside of the Gospels and Early Christian Writings No access
1. Thematic AnaIysis No access
2. Pauline Writings No access
1. Authentic Paul? Ambivalent Attitude Toward Women No access
2. Deutero-Pauline and Other Ambivalent and Negative Attitudes Toward Women No access
1. Christian Mothers No access
2. The Greek Fathers No access
3. The Latin Fathers No access
Index No access Pages 273 - 276