Women in the World of the Earliest Christians – Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

Author:   Lynn Cohick
Publisher:   Baker Publishing Group
ISBN:  

9780801031724


Pages:   350
Publication Date:   01 December 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Women in the World of the Earliest Christians – Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life


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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. It includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.

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Author:   Lynn Cohick
Publisher:   Baker Publishing Group
Imprint:   Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.584kg
ISBN:  

9780801031724


ISBN 10:   0801031729
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   01 December 2009
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1. Women as Daughters 2. Marriage and Matron Ideals 3. Wives and the Realities of Marriage 4. Motherhood 5. Religious Activities of Gentile Women and God-Fearers 6. Religious Activities and Informal Power of Jewish and Christian Women 7. Women's Work 8. Slaves and Prostitutes 9. Benefactors and the Institution of Patronage Conclusion Indexes

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Lynn H. Cohick (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and coauthor of The New Testament in Antiquity. She previously taught at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology.

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