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Birthing Salvation
Gender and Class in Early Christian Childbearing Discourse
Series: - Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 121
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In Birthing Salvation Anna Rebecca SolevÃ¥g explores the theme of childbearing in early Christian discourse. The book maps the importance of womenâs childbearing in Greco-Roman culture and shows how childbearing discourse interfaces with salvation discourse in three early Christian texts: the Pastoral Epistles, the Acts of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Issues of gender and class are explored through an intersectional analysis. In particular, the institution of slavery, and its implications for ideas about salvation in these texts are drawn out. Birthing Salvation offers fresh interpretations of these texts, including the peculiar statement in 1 Tim 2:15 that women âwill be saved through childbearing.â
Anna Rebecca Solevåg, Ph.D. (2011), University of Oslo, is a Postdoc. Research Fellow at the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger, Norway.
Students and scholars interested in the topic of salvation in early Christian texts and anyone concerned with issues of gender and class in Greco-Roman culture.