Women in the earliest churches
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. In a careful and judicious study, Ben Witherington sh...
| Summary: | 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. In a careful and judicious study, Ben Witherington shows that early Christianity was neither unreservedly patriarchal nor adamantly feminist in its view of women and their roles, but rather charted a middle course which combined a reforming of the predominantly patriarchal framework of society with an affirmation of new religious roles for women. Now available in paperback, this is the first book to survey such a large amount of material exegetically, and make use, at the same time, of original languages and texts. Women in first-century Mediterranean cultures. Women and their roles in Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor and Egypt ; Women and their roles in Rome -- Women and the physical family in the Pauline epistles. 1 Corinthians 7 ; The haustafel ; Incidental Pauline references to women's roles in marriage and the family -- Women and the family of faith in the Pauline epistles. Rite and rights for women (Gal 3.28) ; An unveiled threat? (1 Cor 11.2-16) ; Silence in all the churches? (1 Cor 14.33b-36) ; Paul and his co-workers ; The pastoral epistles : proto-gnostic problems -- Women and the third evangelist. Women in the ministry of Jesus ; Women in the resurrection narratives ; Women in the birth narratives ; The book of Acts : women in the primitive church -- Women in the churches of Matthew, Mark, and John. Mark ; Matthew ; John -- Trajectories beyond the New Testament era. Asceticism and views of human sexuality ; Gnosticism ; Prophecy, prophetesses, and Montanism ; Church order Types, examples, and images |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511520492 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511520495 |