Charel Daniël du Toit. "‘Unhiding’ Female Characters in the Parables of Luke: A Case for an Unhiding Reading" (Ph.D. Diss., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2025).
An “unhiding reading” asserts that in the ancient Mediterranean context, where gender roles were widely understood and culturally encoded, audiences would have imagined and assumed the presence of women in domestic, economic, and ritual scenes—even when such figures are omitted from the narrative.
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