Hell Hath No Fury

Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature

Hell Hath No Fury
Meghan R Henning
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2 Nov 2021 US
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9780300223118
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The first major book to examine ancient Christian literature on hell through the lenses of gender and disability studies 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.
"This groundbreaking study provides the most erudite introduction to Christian hell to date, even as it elevates the scholarly conversation about the underworld to new heights of sophistication. Lucid, impeccably researched, and theoretically informed, this book is not only essential reading for anyone interested in the afterlife; it revolutionizes our understanding of Christian theories of punishment and embodiment from antiquity to the present day. "-Candida Moss, University of Birmingham "Meghan Henning immerses the reader in the depths of early Christians' hell, in the company of sinners, saints, and most notably Christ' s mother. The tormented bodies on display show a remarkable resemblance to the world Christians inhabited and their judgments about bodies, male and female, able and disabled. Provocative and engrossing. "-Harold Attridge, Yale Divinity School "Meghan Henning' s analysis of early Christian hellscapes breaks entirely new ground. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the imaginations of the afterlife, then and now. "-Jan N. Bremmer, University of Groningen "In this original, subtle, and stunning monograph, Henning demonstrates that early Christian apocalypses conceptualized tortured, disabled individuals in hell as female. These seemingly obscure texts still echo in today' s concepts of punishment. "-Bernadette J. Brooten, author of Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism "Troubling the line between the literary and the real, Henning decisively shows the interplay in ancient thinking between imagined bodies in hell and non-normative bodies on earth-a formidable advance in our understanding of early Christian speculation on what it means to be human. "-Ben Dunning, Fordham University
Meghan R. Henning is associate professor of Christian origins at the University of Dayton. She is the author of Educating Early Christians Through the Rhetoric of Hell.
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ISBN-13: 9780300223118
Published: 2 Nov 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 24mm
Width: 16mm
Spine: 2mm
Weight: 567g
Pages: 288

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