Women in the Earliest Churches (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series), Paperback, Revised ed. Edition by Ben Witherington III (Used)

Paperback: Revised ed. Edition
Used: Good
9780521407892
0521407893

Publication Date: 1991-05-31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Paperback : 316 pages
Edition: Revised ed. Edition
Author: Ben Witherington III
ISBN-10: 0521407893
ISBN-13: 9780521407892

Product Description This book examines the roles and functions that women assumed in the early Christian communities from AD 33 to the Council of Nicaea. It surveys, too, the views about women held by various New Testament authors including Paul and the Evangelists. Review "The most significant study to be written on the women question so far...No serious debate about the Biblical teaching on women can now take place without taking into account the range of material and conclusions in this book." Christian Book News "It presents a full and impartial discussion of material which is often used selectively and polemically in contemporary debate." The Expository Times "The best and fairest discussion of the horrendously controversial issue of the place of women in early Christianity." Journal of Ecclesiastical History "Commendable for its thoroughness and rejection of ideological biases." Religious Studies Review "...Witherington has written a thought-provoking work which affirms the validity of questioning traditional rules and doctrine about what is proper and allowable for women in the Christian ministry." Ohioana Quarterly "By surveying a large amount of material and making use of original languages and texts, this book is a valuable attempt to bring to the discussion some balance and breadth of exegetical coverage without imposing twentieth-century categories on the biblical texts." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences From the Back Cover This book examines the roles and functions that women assumed in the early Christian communities from AD 33 to the Council of Nicaea.