Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I WOMEN IN FIRST CENTURY CULTURES
- PART II JESUS AND WOMEN
- 4 Teachings on family and single life
- 5 Women in the parables and judgment sayings
- 6 Stories of help and healing
- 7 Women in the ministry of Jesus
- PART III PAUL AND WOMEN
- PART IV WOMEN AND THE EVANGELISTS
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
4 - Teachings on family and single life
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I WOMEN IN FIRST CENTURY CULTURES
- PART II JESUS AND WOMEN
- 4 Teachings on family and single life
- 5 Women in the parables and judgment sayings
- 6 Stories of help and healing
- 7 Women in the ministry of Jesus
- PART III PAUL AND WOMEN
- PART IV WOMEN AND THE EVANGELISTS
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Our first task will be to examine the attitude of Jesus toward women as reflected in His teaching. This will entail a discussion of His views on parenthood, childhood, and the single state, and on marriage, divorce, and adultery. Through this investigation we can begin to evaluate the way Jesus thought the new demands of the Kingdom would affect women in their roles as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, harlots, and believers.
Parents – Mk 10.19, 7.9 – 13
You know the commandments: “Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.”
(Mk 10.19)And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die’; but you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban’ (that is, given to God) – then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”
(Mk 7.9 – 13)There has often been a feeling of uneasiness on the part of many people about Jesus' view of the family.
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- Women and the Genesis of Christianity , pp. 29 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990