«The Making of a Harlot»: Bibbia e genere nella «Vita di Santa Maria Egiziaca»
The Vita di Santa Maria Egiziaca is like a special example of female hagiography: here a woman is remembered «as a woman». Decoding the text in the light of biblical models and the doctrine of the Desert Fathers, femininity turns out to be a positive valu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2008
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2008, Volume: 9, Pages: 291-306 |
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| Summary: | The Vita di Santa Maria Egiziaca is like a special example of female hagiography: here a woman is remembered «as a woman». Decoding the text in the light of biblical models and the doctrine of the Desert Fathers, femininity turns out to be a positive value a monk must know how to integrate in order to achieve the perfection of sainthood. In the Vita di Santa Maria Egiziaca gender oppositions unfurl their literary functions. Their inversion is handed to the message of the paradox of Christianity itself: the God who becomes man and sin forgiven. However, this story of the reciprocal recognition of male and female is also a downscaling of the sanctity of a woman as such: not lastly because the charismatic one can have access to the sacred mysteries of the body of Christ only by receiving them from the male church-institution. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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