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Women in the World of the Earliest Christians – Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life
Lynn Cohick
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Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC1; JFSJ1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574. Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life. 352 pages, b&w illustrations. Cateogry: (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: HRCC1; JFSJ1. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight: 566.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Ada, MI, United States
ISBN
9780801031724
SKU
V9780801031724
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About Lynn Cohick
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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