Rosemary Canavan Bücher

This Friendly Guide introduces the reader to the multitude of women in the New Testament. All take their place in the story of Jesus and the development of the Jesus movement after the resurrection. They are mothers, daughters, sisters and wives living in the first century, with all of its limitations on their participation in public life. Yet they are present, remembered and influential from Jesus' birth, through his public ministry to his passionand death, and as first witnesses to the resurrection. This volume celebrates their contribution and hopes to inspire women and men today in their faithful service. A Friendly Guide to Women in the New Testament explores in detail what we know of the women from the biblical text and elucidates their faith, courage and action in the mission of Jesus and also that of Paul and the early days of the developing faith communities. The Friendly Guide identifies and highlights the women who came to follow Jesus in his time or after the resurrection. It illuminates their faith, their sharing of their gifts and talents and their contribution as disciples, apostles, benefactors, deacons and household church hosts. At its conclusion, the Friendly Guide finds a beginning andan invitation to the saints of today to take inspiration and encouragement from these early saints to proclaim the good news in today's world.

Rosemary Canavan's background spans Scotland and County Antrim, Ireland, with her poetry career highlighted by her first collection, The Island, which was shortlisted for a prestigious prize. Her experience includes serving as Writer-in-Residence in Co. Kerry and as a Poetry Editor for Southword. With a diverse professional history that includes graphic design and teaching in various settings, including prisons, she currently focuses on teaching Creative Writing in County Cork.

Exploring the juxtaposition of confinement and aesthetics, this collection of poems delves into the complexities of life behind bars while celebrating moments of beauty and hope. The verses reflect on the emotional landscape of imprisonment, capturing both the struggles and the resilience of the human spirit. Through vivid imagery and poignant language, the poems invite readers to contemplate the profound connections between suffering and the appreciation of beauty in unexpected places.

What we think of our bodies and what we wear says something about who we are and how we belong. This was the same in the ancient world. Rosemary Canavan explores the imagery of clothing and body in the first century CE Christian writing, the Letter to the Colossians. Through the use of this imagery in the letter, the writer critiques the way people understood themselves in a particular part of the Greco-Roman world in the Lycus Valley in south western Asia Minor (Turkey). An examination of statuary, funerary monuments and coins in this geographical location contemporaneous with the letter's writing reveals how clothing and body images were understood. This is then placed in dialogue with the metaphorical use of clothing and body in other texts, especially the Letter to the Colossians. Social identity and rhetorical studies draw on archaeological, epigraphical, iconographical and literary sources to formulate a new approach to biblical interpretation aptly named „visual exegesis“.