Table of Contents
Introduction 1
A Genealogy for Reception History 3
Bedrock Concerns: Exegetical Credibility, Context, Function, and Reader 4
More Recent Developments Within Reception Studies 9
The Old and the New 10
Then and Now 22
Theory of Reception in this Reception History 27
Technologies of the Christian Self: Anathema, Exemplum, and Identity 35
Organization of Readings 39
Note on Translations 43
Rapitur Christus: Becoming Christians 44
An Apocryphal Tradition and a Jewish-Christian Canaanite Woman 44
Early Polemical Interpretation: Tertullian and Christian Orthodoxy 48
Early Christian Commentary: Exegesis as Catechesis and Paranesis 54
Origen: In Matthaeum 55
Hilary of Poitiers: In Matthaeum 58
Hilary of Poitiers: Tractatus Mysteriorum 62
Ephrem of Nisibis: Commentary on the Gospel 64
Didymus the Blind: In Zacharium 71
Jerome: Commentarium in Matthaeum 74
Quodvultdeus: Liber promissionum et praedictorum Dei 76
Conclusion 80
Sermons and Homilies: Textual Communities and the Call to Lived Narrative 82
Ambrose: Easter Sermon and Sermon on Dives and Lazarus 82
Augustine: Sermon 77 and Sermon 121 88
John Chrysostom: Homily 52 94
Conclusion 100
Necessary Others in Matthew 15:21-28: Race, Class, and Gender 102
The Racial-Ethnic Other: Adversus Judaeos 102
Ishodad of Merv: Commentary on Matthew 102
Theophylact: Exposition of the Gospel of Matthew 103
Chrysostom: Adversus Judaeos and Homiliae in Matthaeum 104
Epiphanius Scholasticus: Interpretatto Evangeliorum 104
John Hutton: The Proposal of Jesus 105
Hugh Martin: Jesus and the Gentile Dogs 107
The Female Other: Mulieres Homines Non Esse 113
Gil Vicente: Auto da Cananeia 114
Anon: Mulieries homines non esse; Simon Gedik: Defensus sexus mulieribus; Arcangela Tarabotti: Che le donne siano delta spezie degli uomini 121
William lay: Lectures on Female Scripture Characters 135
John Pilch: Jesus in His Middle-Eastern Context 142
Clay Nelson: messiahs are from mars; syrophoenician women are from venus 144
Anon: Encuentros con Jesus 145
Loren Rossen: The Shameless Hussy of Mk 7:24 -30/Mt 15:21-28 146
Steven Kurtz: Notes on This Week's Lectionary Text 147
The Impoverished Other: Masters, Men, and Mothers 148
H. H. Carlisle: The Cry of the Children 148
Conclusion 152
Transforming Selves: Reversal, Μετανοια, and Spiritual Ascent 153
The Soul Encounters the Divine 153
Anon: Two Anomoean Homilies 154
Jerome: Vita Hilarionis 159
Human Faith, Ascetical Striving, and Divine Grace 164
Plumbing the Canaanite Heart. John Cassian: Conlationes patrum in scetica eremo 168
Isaiah of Scetis: Logo! 172
Barsanuphius of Gaza: Letter to a Wounded Monk 175
Medieval Monastics and Mystics: Human Sinner, Holy Community, and Spiritual Ascent 179
Anon: Rule of the Master within Benedict of Aniane's Codex Regularum 179
Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermons 22 and 66 186
Guerric D'lgny: Fourth Sermon on the Assumption of the Blessed Mary 191
Julien of Vézelay: Sermon 17 194
Guigues Le Chartreux: Scala Claustralium 197
Richard Rolle: Melos Amoris 202
Gregory of Palamas: 43rd Homily 205
Conclusion 209
"Not the Gift but the Giver:" Protestant Readers from the Reformation to the Early 20th Century 211
Luther and Calvin 211
Martin Luther: Predigt am Sonntag Reminiscere and Auss den andern Sontag nun der fasten Euangelion 214
John Calvin: Commentarius in Harmoniam Evangelicam 219
British and American Protestants Interpret the Canaanite Woman 230
John Trapp: Commentary on the Old and New Testaments 231
Matthew Poole: Annotations on the Holy Bible 234
Adam Clarke: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments 236
Francis Augustus Cox: What Christianity Has Done for Women 240
Phillips Brooks: The Silence of Christ 245
Conclusion 250
Avatars of the Canaanite Woman: Lived Narratives or Rhetorical Performances? 251
Claiming the Canaanite Woman's Wisdom and Authority 253
Dhuoda of Septimania: Manual For My Son 253
Communal Identification through Prayer 259
Anon: Book of Hours of Sinai 259
Thomas Cranmer: Anglican Prayer of Humble Access 263
The Canaanite Woman in "Private" Prayer 266
Gregory of Narek: Book of Lamentations 266
Anglican Devotional Texts 270
Thomas Bentley: The Monument of Matrones 271
Anne Wheathill: A handfull of holesome (though homelie) hearbs 273
Conclusion 276
Epilogue 278
Appendix 287
The Many Faces of the Canaanite Woman 287
Bibliography 297
Index 310