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Women in the Earliest Churches (1988) is a book by Ben Witherington.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1988 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 59).

Contents

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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