Women In Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space

In Women in Their Place Jorunn kland takes the archaeological remains at Corinth as a starting point from which to develop an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed reading of Paul’s utterances on women in 1 Corinthians 11-14. In this section of the letter Paul deals with the ritual gatherings and describes the ekklesia as a of ritual space distinct from domestic space.

kland assesses the text within a larger context of four different gender models found in temple architecture, rituals and literary texts. Whilst Paul’s teaching in the letter effectively engendered ’church’ as male space, his use of a variety of gender models left early Christian women with many other notions of ritual space to explore.

Jorunn Okland, professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo (formerly Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield). Author of ＂Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space ＂(2004).