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- Title: Women on the Edge: New Perspectives on Women in the Petrine Haustafel.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 254 KB
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In October 1998 an article appeared in the Los Angeles Times detailing the difficulty that some mainstream churches have when dealing with domestic abuse. In the article, Nancy Nason-Clark of the University of New Brunswick noted that although domestic violence occurs no more often in religious families than in nonreligious families, "religious families may be more vulnerable in confronting the problem because of biblical beliefs about the honor of suffering and sacrifice, the premium placed on family unity, the dominant role of men in many religious traditions and the creed of transformation and forgiveness that could let perpetrators off the hook too easily." (1) In one story, a woman told her pastor that her husband woke her up at two in the morning and started beating her with a metal tricycle. She was advised to "go back, be a kinder wife; then you will win him to Christ because that's what the Bible says." (2) That pastor clearly was referring to 1 Pet 3:1-2, where the author explains to Christian wives that their unbelieving husbands "may be won over without a word by their wives' conduct when they see the purity and reverence of your lives." (3) But although the advice in 1 Peter seemed to fit the situation perfectly, the pastor's use of that text was a misappropriation of NT ideas because the network of discourses that prompted the original advice is no longer in place. (4) In addition, the women addressed in the Petrine Haustafel deserve closer analysis; because the exhortations have received so much attention, the women themselves have rarely been discussed. As women negotiating problematic familial and social boundaries, they offer a valuable example of an ancient hermeneutic of resistance. I
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