Von Priska bis Drusiana
Frühchristliche Funktionsträgerinnen in Ephesos
By (author) Florence Gantenbein
Paperback (Forthcoming)
(January 2027)
ISBN: 9783162010230
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $150.00
Florence Gantenbein examines the scope of action available to early Christian women in imperial Ephesus against the backdrop of the women who held public office in the city. She shows that gender becomes intelligible only in interaction with other social identities.
Florence Gantenbein examines the public roles of early Christian women in imperial Ephesus during the first and second centuries CE. Her starting point is the large number of women who held public office in imperial Ephesus – serving as prytanes, gymnasiarchs, and priestesses of Artemis Ephesia and the imperial cult – and who are attested in numerous inscriptions. In addition to members of the urban elite, she also draws on sources concerning the midwives of the Ephesian physician Soranus, women in associations and Jewish communities, and the portrayal of gender-specific stereotypes in Artemidorus’s Book of Dreams. Against this local and historical backdrop, the author analyzes the scope of action available to early Christian women based on literary and epigraphic sources. She examines Prisca from the Pauline epistles and traditional literature as well as the Acts of the Apostles; the prophetess and teacher referred to as “Jezebel” in the Book of Revelation; the wise virgins of the Epistula Apostolorum; and Cleopatra and Drusiana from the Acts of John. Drawing on sociological theories of identity and current research in gender history, the author develops the concept of “functional activity” as a heuristic category that goes beyond traditional questions about church offices. In doing so, she productively applies the concept of “functionaries” – derived from ancient history research – to the early Christian context and further develops it as an analytical category. Florence Gantenbein demonstrates that, in both urban and early Christian contexts, gender – as a social or collective identity – exhibits context-specific salience and can only be adequately understood in interaction with other social identities. The study thus connects the history of early Christian women and female figures with that of the early Christian movements in Ephesus and with the social and gender history of the Roman imperial period.
1. Einleitung
1.1 Fragestellung der Untersuchung
1.2 Eingrenzung der Quellen
1.3 Aufbau der Untersuchung
Teil I: Methodologische Grundlegung
2. Entwicklungslinien der Forschung: Von Harnack bis Hylen
2.1 Feministische Exegese und historische Frauenforschung
2.2 Susan Hylen: Frauen in der Welt des frühen Christentums
3. Methodische Sehhilfen
3.1 Multiple Identitäten und ihre situationsbezogene Salienz
3.2 Geschlecht auf der Ebene sozialer Kategorien
3.3 Zur Terminologie "Funktionsträgerin"
3.4 Auswahl der Funktionsträgerinnen
Teil II: Das kaiserzeitliche Ephesos als sozialgeschichtlicher Kontext
4. Ephesos in der römischen Kaiserzeit
4.1 Lage und Topographie
4.2 Geschichte einer griechischen Polis
4.3 Stadtbevölkerung der römischen Provinzhauptstadt
4.4 Sakraltopographie des kaiserzeitlichen Ephesos
5. Städtische Funktionsträgerinnen des kaiserzeitlichen Ephesos
5.1 Zur Terminologie: Ämter und Leiturgien
5.2 Forschungsgeschichte und Forschungsstand
5.3 Die Priesterinnen der Artemis Ephesia
5.4 Die Prytaninnen von Ephesos
5.5 Die provinzialen Kaiserpriesterinnen in Ephesos
5.6 Das Beispiel eines Berufsfeldes von Frauen: Die Hebammen des Soranos
5.7 Funktionsträgerinnen im ephesischen Vereinskontext
5.8 Funktionsträgerinnen im ephesischen (Früh-)Judentum
5.9 Fazit: Funktionsträgerinnen in Ephesos
Teil III: Frühchristliche Funktionsträgerinnen in Ephesos
6. Priska
6.1 Textgrundlagen
6.2 Priska in Ephesos: Eine Porträtskizze
6.3 Priska als frühchristliche Funktionsträgerin
7. Die Lehre der Prophetin "Isebel"
7.1 Die Johannesoffenbarung
7.2 Das Sendschreiben an Thyatira
7.3 Prophetinnen in der Provinz Asia
7.4 Die Prophetin als frühchristliche Funktionsträgerin
8. Der Dienst der klugen Jungfrauen
8.1 Sklaverei im frühen Christentum
8.2 Die Epistula Apostolorum
8.3 Das Gleichnis von den zehn Jungfrauen
8.4 Die klugen Jungfrauen als Vorbild frühchristlicher Funktionsträgerinnen
9. Kleopatra und Drusiana
9.1 Die Johannesakten
9.2 Kleopatra
9.3 Drusiana
9.4 Funktionsträgerinnen in den Johannes- und Paulusakten
Teil IV: Ertrag und Ausblick
10. Frühchristliche Funktionsträgerinnen in Ephesos
10.1 Ertrag
10.2 Ausblick
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