"Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs": Martin Luther’s Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin, 1535-1545
Biographical note
Mickey Leland Mattox, Ph.D. (1997) in Religion, Duke University, is Research Professor in the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France.
Readership
All those interested in Martin Luther, women in the history of Christianity, Reformation history and/or theology, church history, and the history of biblical interpretation in the Latin west.
Reviews
'Mattox's research is throrough and his arguments persuasive.'
Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Renaissance Quarterly, 2004.
Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Renaissance Quarterly, 2004.
Table of contents
Abbreviations
Translations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Muliercula: Eve in the Young Luther’s Exegesis
2. Socia Gubernationis: Eve in the Enarrationes in Genesin
3. Sancta Domina: Luther’s Catholic Exegesis of Sarah
4. Empta Ancilla: A Hagiography of Hagar
5. Sanctae Puellae: Justifying the Daughters of Lot
6. Mulier Heroica: The Faith of Rachel
7. Turpissimum Scortum: Demonizing Potiphar’s Wife
Conclusions
Appendix 1. Genesis in Wittenberg: 1518–1545
Appendix 2. Sixteenth-Century Genesis Commentaries
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Scriptural References
Index of Names
Translations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Muliercula: Eve in the Young Luther’s Exegesis
2. Socia Gubernationis: Eve in the Enarrationes in Genesin
3. Sancta Domina: Luther’s Catholic Exegesis of Sarah
4. Empta Ancilla: A Hagiography of Hagar
5. Sanctae Puellae: Justifying the Daughters of Lot
6. Mulier Heroica: The Faith of Rachel
7. Turpissimum Scortum: Demonizing Potiphar’s Wife
Conclusions
Appendix 1. Genesis in Wittenberg: 1518–1545
Appendix 2. Sixteenth-Century Genesis Commentaries
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Scriptural References
Index of Names
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