Description
Westar scholars Celene Lillie and Erin Vearncombe discuss the many ways that gender bending and testing gender boundaries helped resist Roman violence and develop new kinds of communities. They survey the different dimensions of creativity and patriarchy within Anointed communities, Jesus movements, and wisdom communities during the first two hundred years of the common era. This lecture challenges later masculine power conceptions characteristic of later church and Christianity hierarchies. The lecture displays different kinds of women’s leadership and vulnerable men.
