Jorunn Økland 
Women in Their Place [PDF ebook] 
Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space

In
Women in Their Place Jorunn Økland takes the archaeological remains at Corinth as a starting point from which to develop an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed reading of Paul”s utterances on women in 1 Corinthians 11-14. In this section of the letter Paul deals with the ritual gatherings and describes the ekklesia as a of ritual space distinct from domestic space.



Økland assesses the text within a larger context of four different gender models found in temple architecture, rituals and literary texts. Whilst Paul”s teaching in the letter effectively engendered ”church” as male space, his use of a variety of gender models left early Christian women with many other notions of ritual space to explore.