Women in the Earliest Churches

ISBN-13: 9780521407892 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 316 str.

III Ben Witherington; Ben III Witherington; John Court

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Commendable for its thoroughness and rejection of ideological '. Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Women in first-century Mediterranean cultures; 2. Women and the physical family in the Pauline epistles; 3. Women and the family of faith in the Pauline epistles; 4. Women and the Third Evangelist; 5. Women in the churches of Matthew, Mark, and John; 6. Trajectories beyond the New Testament era; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography.