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Reconstructing Women's Roles in Early Christianity

Reconstructing Women's Roles in Early Christianity

Franchi, Roberta
Barnes, Aneilya

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World

Ancient History GeneralBible StudiesGeneral Christianity

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 30, 2026

ISBN10: 103271168X
ISBN13: 9781032711683
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 30 2026
Pages: 336
Language: English

Reconstructing Women's Roles in Early Christianity provides a thorough understanding of women's significance in the establishment and development of early Christianity throughout the Mediterranean.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to the role of women in the early Christian Church, incorporating history, literary criticism, gender theory, family studies, material culture, and a variety of other methodologies in an effort to extract women from the erasures of time. It situates a wide variety of influential roles women held, from apostle to martyr, within the broader contexts of their Mediterranean communities, arguing that women's participation in and contributions to the burgeoning religion restructured cultural norms for female positions of authority, making women central to the spread and establishment of the fledgling movement. In its efforts to extract women from the historical margins, the volume also asks new questions about what constituted authority in early Christian congregations, what the sources of authority were for women's claims to leadership, who could wield power, and how notions of authority varied from one community to another.

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