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From Jesus to Christ

Author : Paula Fredriksen

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 48,83 MB

Release : 2008-10-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0300164106

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"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor



Women in the World of the Earliest Christians

Author : Lynn Cohick

Publisher : Baker Academic

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 46,90 MB

Release : 2009-11-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1441207996

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Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.



Women Officeholders in Early Christianity

Author : Ute E. Eisen

Publisher : Liturgical Press

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 36,55 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780814659502

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Here Ute E. Eisen provides a scholarly investigation of the evidence that women held offices of authority in the first centuries of Christianity. Topics include apostles, prophets, theological teachers, presbyters, enrolled widows, deacons, bishops, and oikonomae. The book concludes with a chapter on "source-oriented perspectives for a history of Christian women in official positions."



Women in Early Christianity

Author : Patricia Cox Miller

Publisher : CUA Press

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 25,38 MB

Release : 2005

Category : History

ISBN : 0813214173

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What emerges from these texts is a colorful portrayal of the many faces of ancient Christian women in their roles as teachers, prophets, martyrs, widows, deaconesses, ascetics, virgins, wives, and mothers.



Women in the Earliest Churches

Author : Ben Witherington (III)

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 16,62 MB

Release : 1991-05-30

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780521407892

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This book examines the roles and functions that women assumed in the early Christian communities from AD 33 to the Council of Nicaea. It surveys, too, the views about women held by various New Testament authors including Paul and the Evangelists.



Mary and Early Christian Women

Author : Ally Kateusz

Publisher : Springer

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 18,86 MB

Release : 2019-02-18

Category : Religion

ISBN : 3030111113

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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom—Old Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz’s research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.



The Role of Women in Early Christianity

Author : Jean Laporte

Publisher : New York : E. Mellen Press

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 32,25 MB

Release : 1982

Category : Religion

ISBN :

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The purpose of this book is to explain the role and place of women in Early Christianity as it emerges from the writings of the Fathers of the Church. It does not deal with the materials of the New Testament on women except in so far as the Fathers rely or comment on them, or when they provide models of institutions or types of life.



Crispina and Her Sisters

Author : Christine Schenk

Publisher : Fortress Press

Page : 479 pages

File Size : 48,40 MB

Release : 2017-12-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1506411894

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Cripina and Her Sisters explores visual imagery found on burial artifacts of prominent early Christian women. It carefully situates the tomb art within the cultural context of customary Roman commemorations of the dead and provides an in-depth review of women‘s history in the first four centuries of Christianity. From this, a fascinating picture emerges of women‘s authority in the early church--a picture either not readily available or recognized, or even sadly distorted in the written history.



Christian Women in the Patristic World

Author : Lynn H. Cohick

Publisher : Baker Academic

Page : 327 pages

File Size : 23,91 MB

Release : 2017-10-03

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1493410210

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From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers--influenced the shape of the church in its formative centuries. This book provides in a single volume a nearly complete compendium of extant evidence about Christian women in the second through fifth centuries. It highlights the social and theological contributions they made to shaping early Christian beliefs and practices, integrating their influence into the history of the patristic church and showing how their achievements can be edifying for contemporary Christians.



Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity

Author : Ulla Tervahauta

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 389 pages

File Size : 42,76 MB

Release : 2017-10-17

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9004344934

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Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity offers a collection of essays that deal with perceptions of wisdom, femaleness, and their interconnections in a wide range of ancient sources, including papyri, Nag Hammadi documents, heresiological accounts and monastic literature.