Hadlock then offered a reading of the opera which revealed how, through story and music, it criticizes and subverts patriarchal biases in both opera and Christian tradition. She noted how the music and poetry depict youth, adulthood, and old age as archetypal stages of the female lifecycle, and the wisdom and vulnerability associated with each stage.
All these genres use music, theater, and simple vivid story-telling to teach Biblical stories and morals. The librettist, composer, conductor, stage director, choreographer, and producers were all men.
This disparity between topical focus and production reveals what Hadlock specified, in an invocation of Virginia Woolf, as the historical tendency for women to serve as muses but rarely creators or producers of art.
For general inquiries: gender-email stanford. Secondly, wise women would have arrived on time - certainly not two years late.
In fact, most women, wise women that is, are usually early for events, counting punctuality as a virtue. The wise men didn't catch up with Jesus until he was nearly two years old. They would have helped with the delivery. Although worshiping the Christ child has its merits, practicality is called for during labor and delivery. Especially, labor and delivery in a stable. To give the wise men a break, they never made it to the stable, so move them away from your nativity set. Shepherds were there so you can leave them in; however, they came after the baby was already born.
Had three wise women been at the stable - on time and in the right place - they most certainly would have thrown themselves into the stable birth - cleaning the birthing area, applying cool clothes to Mary's head and coaching her breathing through contractions while giving words of encouragement. Although "hosanna" was a word they could have used, wise women become very practical in emergencies and I think they most likely shouted, "Push.
Wise women would have arrived with a nice, nourishing tuna casserole, a crisp green salad, a warm loaf of French bread and a chocolate cake. Also, they most likely would have brought over some casserole or other food for the couple for dinner along with some kind of dessert. All women love to talk about the cute babies after they leave and these wise women would have been no different.
He looks nothing like Joseph at all. I mean, did the wise men get abducted by aliens when they left? Why is it that you never hear of them again? You would think that if you had the glorious opportunity to see Jesus face to face that you would want to spend as much time with Him as possible. I object! Third, how do you keep in touch if letters were very unreliable. Sixth, how would you wrap money? Put it in a box or something. The Magi did not live that far away.
He would have been the easiest child on earth to teach, to nurture, and to love because He was sinless. And the third wise woman, Anna, was an expectant elderly widow.
She was a woman on a mission! Messiah was coming and she was going to live long enough to meet Him! Anna had been married, but her husband lived only seven years and she never remarried. God had shown her that she would not die without her old eyes seeing the Anointed One, the Son of God, Jesus the Messiah.
Anna is the only woman in the Gospels to be called a prophetess. In a time when the northern tribes had lost their identity, she could trace her ancestry to the tribe of Asher. After she met the baby Jesus, she told everyone she could about the Redeemer being born.
She gave the gift of mission, of evangelism, of telling others the good news about the gospel. She was an old woman on a mission. I can tell you a couple gifts that He would like to receive from you and me. But I warn you, though they are not expensive, they are costly. The gift of godly living, like Elizabeth gave, is a gift Jesus would like to receive from you and me.
Godly living begins by purposing and planning for how we are to grow in godly ways. We need the Scriptures to grow—we need a plan for meeting with God regularly. For some it will become daily—when I had small children around my feet, I tried to meet with God several days a week. Now my children and grown and I can meet with Him daily. There is no more important hour in my day.
We have to purpose to meet with our God and know Him if we want to be like Him. Mary gave faith. She believed God.
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