Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
Author: Lynn Cohick
Publisher: Baker/Academic
Format: Paperback
Categories: Church, Gender Issues, History, Society, Women's Issues
Item: 0801031729
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Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life. 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.
"This is an important book for all students of the New Testament, however novice or advanced. Cohick's historical sensibilities and sympathetic reading of the whole range of available evidence overturn a number of caricatures that have for decades plagued claims about women (and men) in the world of the early church. Her presentation of the life of the ordinary Roman woman from Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources is a model of careful exploration and nuanced reconstruction. It deserves to be read attentively and consulted often." --Joel B. Green, Fuller Theological Seminary
ISBN | 0801031729 |
ISBN 13 | 9780801031724 |
Weight | 1.33 |
Pages | 350 |
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