"Hell Hath No Fury" by Meghan R. Henning

Hell Hath No Fury Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature Meghan R. Henning

Series:
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
Format:
Hardback
Publication date:
21 Sep 2021
ISBN:
9780300223118
Imprint:
Yale University Press
Dimensions:
288 pages: 235 x 156mm
Sales territories:
World

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In this pioneering study, Meghan Henning illuminates how the resurrected bodies that populate hell in early Christian literature—largely those of women, enslaved persons, and individuals with disabilities—are punished after death in spaces that mirror real carceral spaces, effectually criminalizing those bodies on earth. Contextualizing the apocalypses alongside ancient medical texts, inscriptions, philosophy, and patristic writings, this book demonstrates the ways that Christian depictions of hell intensified and preserved ancient notions of gender and bodily normativity that continue to inform Christian identity.

Meghan R. Henning is Associate Professor of Christian Origins at the University of Dayton. The author of Educating Early Christians through the Rhetoric of Hell, she lives in Dayton, OH.

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