Author : Ben Witherington (III)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1991-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521407892
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.
Author : Ben Witherington (III.)
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Carolyn Osiek
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451413557
This focused look at women in the household context discusses the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. Several aspects of women's everyday existence are investigated, including the lives of wives, widows, women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers. In addition, several key themes emerge: hospitality, dining practices, and the extent of female segregation.
Author : Kevin Madigan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2005-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801879326
Madigan and Osiek assemble relevant material from both Western and Eastern Christendom.--Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, author of Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Early Christianity "Catholic Historical Review"
Author : Lynn Cohick
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441207996
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.
Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300164106
"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
Author : Karen J. Torjesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1995-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0060686618
This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests, bishops, and prophets in early Christianity, but also how and why they were then suppressed.
Author : Leanne M. Dzubinski
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493429183
Women have been central to the work of Christian ministry from the time of Jesus to the twenty-first century. Yet the story of Christianity is too often told as a story of men. This accessibly written book tells the story of women throughout church history, demonstrating their integral participation in the church's mission. It highlights the legacies of a wide variety of women, showing how they have overcome obstacles to their ministries and have transformed cultural constraints to spread the gospel and build the church.
Author : Ally Kateusz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3030111113
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.
Author : Holly Beers
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830849890
In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. In this gripping novel, Holly Beers introduces us to the first-century setting where Paul first proclaimed the gospel. Illuminated by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this lively story not only shows us the rich tapestry of life in a Greco-Roman city, it also foregrounds the interior life of one woman—and the radical new freedom the gospel promised her.
