Cerberus Bites Back: A Tale with Three Heads - the Syrophoenician and her Imitators
Exchanges about dogs operate rhetorically in the stories of the Syrophoenician women in Mark’s gospel, the Canaanite woman in Matthew, and the righteous Justa in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The three stories are thus analysed with a focus on proverbial form, poetic features, and metre. The varia...
Subtitles: | Special Issue: Transforming Biblical Animals |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2018]
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In: |
Relegere
Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 115-46 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New Testament
/ Church
/ Christian literature
/ Dog
/ Metaphor
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IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HA Bible |
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Summary: | Exchanges about dogs operate rhetorically in the stories of the Syrophoenician women in Mark’s gospel, the Canaanite woman in Matthew, and the righteous Justa in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The three stories are thus analysed with a focus on proverbial form, poetic features, and metre. The variations in the way the dogs are employed in the three stories reflect different periods and contexts within early Christianities, and are variously employed to convey abuse, voice, food practices, ethnicity, and gender. |
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ISSN: | 1179-7231 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Relegere
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.11157/rsrr7-1-2-763 |