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Title: Excellent Women: Female Witness to the Resurrection.
Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
Release Date : January 22, 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 200 KB

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Feminist biblical scholarship has illuminated places where early authors obscured the part that women played in the earliest communities. Nowhere is this clearer than in the resurrection narratives. (1) Women's presence and testimony as witnesses to the empty tomb and Jesus' appearance after death seems an early and firmly entrenched piece of the tradition. Equally early and entrenched is the embarrassment around that fact. This article will delineate the mixed attitudes toward women's roles in the resurrection narrative of each Gospel and consider women's part in the resurrection story relative to the roles of women in the rest of that Gospel. It will then consider the audiences that may have called forth these mixed responses. I. The Indispensability of the Women's Witness