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Women in Early Christianity

Translations from Greek Texts

by Patricia Cox Miller

  • Paperback
  • 352 pages
  • Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
  • 15.6 x 23.1 x 2.7 cm

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From the fictional Thecla in the second century to the very real Olympias in the early fifth century, the history of women in early Christianity was as complex and rich as the religion itself. This comprehensive sourcebook brings together translations of a variety of ancient Christian texts that elucidate how women were perceived and portrayed in the Greek literature written in the second to the sixth centuries. The texts included in the volume have been generously excerpted, providing the modern reader with an in-depth view of the historical reality of early Christian women's lives as well as a nuanced perspective on the many ways in which women were understood in theological and ecclesiastical frameworks. Few documents written by early Christian women have been preserved; contemporary readers therefore do not have much direct access to these women's own perspectives on their lives and roles as Christians. Nevertheless, there are many kinds of texts that can be used both to reconstruct the history of actual women in early Christianity and to analyze the ancient ideologies and rhetoric that affected how they were perceived.This volume offers many different kinds of texts in order to present as complete a view as possible of early Christian women: documentary sources such as church orders and proceedings, popular narrative sources such as the novelistic apocryphal acts, biographies and lives of saints, and theological treatises on virginity and marriage. What emerges from these texts is a colorful portrayal of the many faces of ancient Christian women in their roles as teachers, prophets, martyrs, widows, deaconesses, ascetics, virgins, wives, and mothers. Whether celebrated as saints or denigrated as harlots, early Christian women were magnets of theological and social thought.
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  • Author

    Patricia Cox Miller

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    The Catholic University of America Press

  • Published

    August 2005

  • Weight

    600g

  • Page Count

    352

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.1 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813214177

  • ISBN-10

    0813214173

  • Eden Code

    1161236

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