Ciphers in the sand : interpretations of the woman taken in adultery (John 7.53-8.11)
Print Book, English, 2000
Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, England, 2000
Biblical seminar, 74
Criticism, interpretation, etc
277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781841271415, 1841271411
45178887
Introduction: The cultural reception of John 7.53-8.11 / Jane Shaw
Wayward women and broken promises: marriage, adultery and mercy in Old and New Testaments / Deborah W. Rooke
On the trail of a good story: John 7.53-8.11 in the gospel tradition / J. Martin C. Scott
A woman's plight and the western fathers / Thomas O'Loughlin
A place for mercy: some allegorical readings of 'the woman taken in adultery' from the early middle ages (with particular reference to Bede, the Heliand and the Exeter book) / Mark Atherton
'Revealing the affairs of the heart': sin, accusation and confession in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter / Larry J. Kreitzer
The one that got away / Jayne Scott
Making her case and reading it too: feminist readings of the story of the woman taken in adultery / Elizabeth E. Green