BI306 Women in the Biblical World: New Testament
Overview
In Women in the Biblical World: New Testament, Dr. Mark Chavalas provides a historical survey of the status of women in the Graeco-Roman world, from the advent of alphabetic texts in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean regions during the late eighth century BC, to the first century AD. He looks at Greek and Roman documents as well as classical-period documents from Egypt and other regions of the Near East. Dr. Chavalas presents a rich historical context for understanding how women were treated in the New Testament, and closes the course by evaluating many of the New Testament passages concerning women.
Top Highlights
“If we look at this in the context of chapter 14, not being permitted to speak must be talking about what he said earlier in the chapter. He’s already said that they’re praying and prophesying, so evidently, they may be speaking out of turn.” (source)
“But for the Romans, virtus was clearly something that males had. It’s the word for ‘manliness.’ In fact, in English the word ‘virility’ and the word ‘virtuous’ are from the same root, which doesn’t necessarily seem that it would fit.” (source)
“The same holds good of animals in relation to men; for tame animals have a better nature than the wild, and all tame animals are better off when they’re ruled by man’—meaning the human—‘for they are better preserved. Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior.’ Perhaps, I shouldn’t go any further after I say that. ‘The one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.’” (source)
“And, of course, he’s clearly in affirmation of these things. ‘It is also written, regarding the right to kill: ‘If you catch your wife in adultery, you can kill her with impunity;she, however, cannot dare to lay a finger on you if you commit adultery, nor is it the law.’ ’” (source)
“he says. But in verse 27, she says ‘After hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and” (source)
- Title: BI306 Women in the Biblical World: New Testament
- Author: Mark W. Chavalas
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Women in the Bible; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Women › Rome--Social life and customs; Education › Women in the Bible; Education › Bible. N.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc; Education › Women--Rome--Social life and customs
- Resource ID: LLS:BI306CHAVALAS
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2019-06-20T21:57:43Z
Dr. Mark Chavalas is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he has taught since 1989. He earned his BA at California State University-Northridge and his MA and PhD, both in History, at UCLA.
Dr. Chevalas is author or coauthor of publications including Mesopotamia and the Bible (Baker, 2002) and the IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (InterVarsity Press, 2000) and coeditor of The Ancient Near East and Women in the Ancient Near East. Dr. Chavalas has had fellowships at Yale, Harvard, Cornell, and other universities. He has nine seasons of excavation experience at various Bronze Age sites in Syria, and he is currently President of the American Oriental Society Middle West region and a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
His research over the past decade has focused on interconnections between ancient Mesopotamia and outlying areas such as Anatolia, Iran, Egypt, and Syro-Palestine. Other recent research has investigated gender constructs in the ancient Near East and Mesopotamian historiography. Dr. Chavalas’ current research is focused on writing a history of Bronze Age Syria from the advent of writing in the third millennium BC to the Iron Age. His courses cover a wide area, including ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Syria, and Turkey; Iran before Islam; women in the ancient world; and the Akkadian and Sumerian languages.
Dr. Chavalas and his wife Kimberlee are the happy parents of six. When he is not serving in various capacities at First Evangelical Free Church in Onalaska, Wisconsin, Dr. Chavalas describes himself as “a hopeless baseball fanatic, bleeding Dodger blue.”