- Central Washington University
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7555 - 509-963-1820
- Feminist Theory, Early Christianity, Greek Language, New Testament and Christian Origins, Early Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman), Jewish - Christian Relations, and 12 moreAncient Hebrew, History of Biblical Interpretation, Syriac Christianity, Mariology, Women of the Hebrew Bible, Jewish Ritual Purity Law, Philosophy, Philosophy and Religious Studies, History, New Testament, Church History, and Patristicsedit
- Lily Vuong is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Central Washington University. She completed... moreLily Vuong is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Central Washington University. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto (H.B.A.) and graduate studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (M.A.) and McMaster University (Ph.D.). Before joining the faculty at CWU, she was Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Valdosta State University until 2015. She has also spent time as a Visiting Scholar at Claremont Graduate University’s School of Religion, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA's Center for the Study of Religion. Her area of study is in Early Christianity with a special interest in New Testament Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings. Gender studies have also played an important role in her research, especially in terms of its construction and interpretation in early Christian literature. Other topics of interest include the relationships between Judaism, Christianity, and Greco-Roman culture, the formation of Jewish and Christian identities in Late Antiquity, the place of non-canonical literature in biblical interpretation, and the representation of women in the ancient world.edit
Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism, New Testament, art history, and rabbinics examine issues related to authority, identity, and change in religious and philosophical traditions of late antiquity. The... more
Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism, New Testament, art history, and rabbinics examine issues related to authority, identity, and change in religious and philosophical traditions of late antiquity. The specific focus of the volume is the examination of cultural producers and their particular viewpoints and agendas in an attempt to shed new light on the religious thinkers, texts, and material remains of late antiquity. The essays explore the major creative movements of the era, examining the strategies used to develop and designate orthodoxies and orthopraxies. This collection of essays reinterprets dialogues between individuals and groups, illuminating the mutual competition and influence among these ancient thinkers and communities.
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Lily C. Vuong explores the portrayal of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the apocryphal narrative of the Protevangelium of James. Early Jewish and Christian ideas concerning purity and gender, the importance of apocryphal texts, and the... more
Lily C. Vuong explores the portrayal of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the apocryphal narrative of the Protevangelium of James. Early Jewish and Christian ideas concerning purity and gender, the importance of apocryphal texts, and the early history of Mariology are discussed.
Research Interests: Feminist Theory, New Testament, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Theory, Jewish - Christian Relations, and 11 moreLate Antiquity, Early Christian Apocryphal Literature, Menstruation, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Mariology, Jewish Identity, Identity, Women and Gender Studies, Christian Identity, Virgin Mary, and Ritual Purity
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Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism, New Testament, art history, and rabbinics examine issues related to authority, identity, and change in religious and philosophical traditions of late antiquity. The... more
Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism, New Testament, art history, and rabbinics examine issues related to authority, identity, and change in religious and philosophical traditions of late antiquity. The specific focus of the volume is the examination of cultural producers and their particular viewpoints and agendas in an attempt to shed new light on the religious thinkers, texts, and material remains of late antiquity. The essays explore the major creative movements of the era, examining the strategies used to develop and designate orthodoxies and orthopraxies. This collection of essays reinterprets dialogues between individuals and groups, illuminating the mutual competition and influence among these ancient thinkers and communities.
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Abstract: My dissertation brings literary approaches to the study of purity in one of the most influential" apocryphal" texts about Mary the mother of Jesus. Specifically, I explore the place and function of ritual, menstrual,... more
Abstract: My dissertation brings literary approaches to the study of purity in one of the most influential" apocryphal" texts about Mary the mother of Jesus. Specifically, I explore the place and function of ritual, menstrual, and sexual purity in the portrayal and characterization of ...