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Book Reviews 225 BOOK REVIEWS Kathleen E. Corley, Private Women, Public Meals: Social Conflict in the Synoptic Tradition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993). 217 pp. $19.95, hardback. Reviewed by James Malcolm Arlandson A bright light in the array of scholarship on women in the New Testament is Kathleen Corley's book under review, which originated as her dissertation at The Claremont Graduate School. Corley, a professor of New Testament at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, analyzes women in the setting of meals in the Synoptics. Meals exhibit one of the conservative customs of any society because "the elements of their preparation resist innovation, since such customs reflect and symbolize a culture's social and political relationships" (xvi; cf. 25). So Corley uses meals and women's place at them as a measuring stick for how the Synoptic writers view women. She suggests that we can determine the Gospel authors' ideology with respect to women's roles in early Christian communities, and determine how ideology influences and shapes the contemporary church, by examining to what extent their accounts of women's behavior in real settings conform to or break from the accepted social practices in Greco-Roman society. Corley first uncovers the attitudes of Greco-Roman society, including http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

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Brill
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0272-0965
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1570-0747
DOI
10.1163/157007496X00173
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225 BOOK REVIEWS Kathleen E. Corley, Private Women, Public Meals: Social Conflict in the Synoptic Tradition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993). 217 pp. $19.95, hardback. Reviewed by James Malcolm Arlandson A bright light in the array of scholarship on women in the New Testament is Kathleen Corley's book under review, which originated as her dissertation at The Claremont Graduate School. Corley, a professor of New Testament at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, analyzes women in the setting of meals in the Synoptics. Meals exhibit one of the conservative customs of any society because "the elements of their preparation resist innovation, since such customs reflect and symbolize a culture's social and political relationships" (xvi; cf. 25). So Corley uses meals and women's place at them as a measuring stick for how the Synoptic writers view women. She suggests that we can determine the Gospel authors' ideology with respect to women's roles in early Christian communities, and determine how ideology influences and shapes the contemporary church, by examining to what extent their accounts of women's behavior in real settings conform to or break from the accepted social practices in Greco-Roman society. Corley first uncovers the attitudes of Greco-Roman society, including

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Published: Jan 1, 1996

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