Women & Christian Origins

• Author(s): Ross Shepard Kraemer,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 406
• ISBN_10: 0195103963
  ISBN_13: 9780195103960
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christianity / History , Religion / History , Religion / Christianity / General , Religion / Christian Church / History , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... This new collection of fourteen integrated, original essays by prominent scholars and experienced teachers provides a comprehensive and accessible entree to current research on women and the origins of Christianity. Engaging for both the interested reader and the specialist in religion, Women and Christian Origins is sensitive to feminist theory and attentive to distinctions between the (re)construction of women's history in early Christian churches and ancient constructions of gender difference