Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives

Chapter 1: Introduction: (Re)Turning to Truth

a.   Dialogic Partners

i.  Bakhtin and Narratology

ii.  Slavery and Truth

iii.  Feminism

b.   Returning to Luke-Acts

c.   Other Ancient Narratives

d.   Dialogic Voices in Luke-Acts: Women and Slaves

i.  Women in Luke

ii.  Women in Acts

iii.  Slaves/Slavery in Luke-Acts iv.  Luke's Three Slave-Girls

Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations: Bakhtin and Narratology

b.   Bakhtinian Genre: Menippea and Novels

c.   Bakhtinian Perspectives within a Novel

 i.  The Role of the Author

ii.  Outsidedness versus Insideness iii.  Point of View or Focalization

d.   Multivoicedness of the Novel: Polyphony and Dialogism e.   A Topsy-Turvy World: Bakhtin's Concept of Carnival

f.             Intertextuality and Feminist Dialogics i.  Intertextuality

ii.  Feminist Dialogics

iii.  Other Feminist Uses of Bakhtinian Theory

Chapter 3: The Slave-Girl Who Sees: Luke 22:47-62

a.   Discipleship in Luke

b.   Setting the Scene: Luke 22:47-62

c.   "Now I am what I have come to be": Callirhoe-as-Slave in Chariton's Chaereas and

Callirhoe

d.   Examining the Scene: The Role of the Slave-Girl in Luke 22:47-62 i.  The Gaze of the Slave-Girl

iii.  The Statement of the Slave-Girl

iv.  Statements in Support of the Slave's Truth

e.   Conclusion: Truth is in the Eye of the Female Slave

Chapter 4: The Slave-Girl Who Answers: Acts 12:12-19

a.   Acts 12: A Humorous Novella with a Purpose

b.   A Rose by Any Other Name: Rhoda's Role in Acts 12:12-19

c.   Euclia, the Tortured Truth-Teller

d.   Every Rose has Its Thorn: Rhoda in Scholarly Conversation

i.  Rhoda Subverts Hierarchies ii.  Rhoda Sustains Hierarchies

e.   Conclusion: Rhoda's Dialogic Purpose in Acts 12

Chapter 5: The Girl Who Prophesies: Acts 16:17-18

a.   Lydia and the Slave-Girl: Perspectives of an "Insider" and an "Outsider"

i.  Lydia: "Inside the Pauline Circle

ii.  The Outsider: A Prophesying, Truth-Telling Slave-Girl

b.   The Slave-Girl's Prophecy: The Truth about Paul and Silas c.   Leucippe: A Free Elite Woman Treated as a Slave

d.   Conclusion: The Prophesying Python

Conclusion: When Truth Equals Freedom