Blossom Stefaniw
Biographic Data
| ID | 1495342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blossom Stefaniw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blossom |
| FAMILY NAME | Stefaniw |
| SIGNATURE | STEFANIW B |
| AFFILIATIONS | MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1721-207X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Masculinity as Flight: Vulnerability, Devotion, Submission and Sovereignty in the Teachings of Silvanus
Late Roman masculinity required dominance and control and favoured violent hierarchies. Yet scholars of early Christian martyr acts and ascetic literature frequently observe ambivalence or deviation from this norm. Rather than accumulate more and more exceptions to the traditional ideal (which was never really singular anyway) or continue collecting variations on this model of masculinity, the following essay seeks to shift the model by introduci…
Masculinity, Historiography, and Uses of the Past: An Introduction
This essay serves as an introduction to a collection of articles on masculinity in early Christianity. It considers problems of the masculine subject as both the knower and the known in traditional historiography. By juxtaposing Tertullian’s polemic against heretical women with da Vinci’s drawing of the Vitruvian man, this essay explores how to think about masculinity as a way of arranging the world and our knowledge of it and in it, using a gaze…
Feminist Historiography and Uses of the Past
Two recently-published works involved in the representation of women in the Christian past show two contemporary but divergent historiographic modes. The following essay examines each study within a larger frame of inquiry as to how patriarchy continues to shape both the institutional and embodied orders within which feminist historiography of early Christianity and Late Antiquity takes place. Using Critical Race Theory as the best available pers…
Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity, written by Kathleen Gallagher Elkins
Christian Reading: Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things
Mind, Text, and Commentary: Noetic Exegesis in Origen of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus
Becoming Men, Staying Women: Gender Ambivalence in Christian Apocryphal Texts and Contexts
The motif of women becoming men, taking on manly characteristics, or being made male appears in several Christian Apocryphal texts. This essay investigates the reasons behind this motif in terms of the cultural context without evaluating whether the attitude towards women which this particular motif might be understood to reflect demonstrates that Christian communities were more or less misogynistic than the rest of society. The ‘becoming male mo…
Reading Revelation: Allegorical Exegesis in Late Antique Alexandria
This article presents a cultural approach to Alexandrian allegorical interpretation. It analyses it in terms of contemporary assumptions about the revelatory nature of traditional texts and how this belief resulted in casting the reader or commentator in the role of a contemplative and in the use of traditional texts in spiritual and moral education. Commentaries by Origen, Evagrius, Didymus, Hermeias, and Olympiodorus are examined. The controver…
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Reading Revelation: Allegorical Exegesis in Late Antique Alexandria
This article presents a cultural approach to Alexandrian allegorical interpretation. It analyses it in terms of contemporary assumptions about the revelatory nature of traditional texts and how this belief resulted in casting the reader or commentator in the role of a contemplative and in the use of traditional texts in spiritual and moral education. Commentaries by Origen, Evagrius, Didymus, Hermeias, and Olympiodorus are examined. The controver…
Mind, Text, and Commentary: Noetic Exegesis in Origen of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus
Becoming Men, Staying Women: Gender Ambivalence in Christian Apocryphal Texts and Contexts
The motif of women becoming men, taking on manly characteristics, or being made male appears in several Christian Apocryphal texts. This essay investigates the reasons behind this motif in terms of the cultural context without evaluating whether the attitude towards women which this particular motif might be understood to reflect demonstrates that Christian communities were more or less misogynistic than the rest of society. The ‘becoming male mo…
Christian Reading: Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things
Feminist Historiography and Uses of the Past
Two recently-published works involved in the representation of women in the Christian past show two contemporary but divergent historiographic modes. The following essay examines each study within a larger frame of inquiry as to how patriarchy continues to shape both the institutional and embodied orders within which feminist historiography of early Christianity and Late Antiquity takes place. Using Critical Race Theory as the best available pers…
Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity, written by Kathleen Gallagher Elkins
Masculinity as Flight: Vulnerability, Devotion, Submission and Sovereignty in the Teachings of Silvanus
Late Roman masculinity required dominance and control and favoured violent hierarchies. Yet scholars of early Christian martyr acts and ascetic literature frequently observe ambivalence or deviation from this norm. Rather than accumulate more and more exceptions to the traditional ideal (which was never really singular anyway) or continue collecting variations on this model of masculinity, the following essay seeks to shift the model by introduci…
Masculinity, Historiography, and Uses of the Past: An Introduction
This essay serves as an introduction to a collection of articles on masculinity in early Christianity. It considers problems of the masculine subject as both the knower and the known in traditional historiography. By juxtaposing Tertullian’s polemic against heretical women with da Vinci’s drawing of the Vitruvian man, this essay explores how to think about masculinity as a way of arranging the world and our knowledge of it and in it, using a gaze…
Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ambivalence (2 works) · Antique (2 works)