Romans through History and
Cultures Series
Gender,
Tradition
And Romans
Shared Ground, Uncertain Borders
Edited by
Cristina Grenholm and
Daniel Patte
Contents
Introduction
Gender, Tradition and Romans: Shared Ground, Uncertain Borders 1 1
Cristina Grenholm and Daniel Patte
Part I: Mapping Traditions in Romans
1.
Feminists and Paul in Romans 8:18-23:
Toward a 21
Theology
of Creation
Sheila
E. McGinn
2.
Judging and
Community in Romans: An Action 39
within
the Boundaries
Yak -hwee Tan
3. Cross-Tradition and Cross-Gender Hermeneutics: A 63
Confucian
Reading of Romans and a Critical Reading
of
Confucian Ethics
Yeo Khiok-khng
4. Feminism and the Ambiguities of Texts and Reality: 81
A Response to
Sheila McGinn and Yak-hwee
Tan
Cristina
Grenholm
Part II: Challenging Gendered Traditions in Romans
and
Its Interpretations
5. A Remedy for Having Been Born of Woman: Jesus,
101
Gentiles, and Genealogy in Romans
Pamela
Eisenbaum
6. The Gendered Sinner in Romans 1-7 143
Teresa
J. Hornsby
7. Gender and Ideology Critique in the Study of
Paul’s 167
Letter
to the Romans: A Response to Pamela Eisenbaum
and Teresa J. Hornsby
Elizabeth
A. Castelli
Part III: Gender and the Authority of Romans
8. Choices of Interpretations Regarding Gender
and the 181
Authority
of Romans
Cristina
Grenholm and Daniel Patte
9. History, Theology, and Context: The Analysis of 195
Romans
in Bernadette Brooten's Love Between
Women
and Francis Watson's Agape, Eros, Gender
Elizabeth
A. Clark
10. Patriarchy and Heterosexual Eroticism: The Question 209
in Romans and Corinthians
David
W. Odell-Scott
11. New Perspectives on Paul: No New Perspectives on 227
Romans in Feminist Theology?
Kathy
Ehrensperger
Part IV: Conclusions
12. Scriptural Criticism and Feminist Interpretation of 259
Romans
Cynthia Briggs Kittredge
13. Scriptural Criticism and Religious
Perception 271
Sarah
Heaner Lancaster
Contributors 285
Index of Scriptural References 289
Index of Authors 295
