A Woman's Place
House Churches in Early Christianity
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 2005
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Publisher's Description
This focused look at women in the household context discusses the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. Several aspects of women's everyday existence are investigated, including the lives of wives, widows, women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers. In addition, several key themes emerge: hospitality, dining practices, and the extent of female segregation.
Endorsements (3)
“Uses the all too meager evidence with sophistication and presents their results with engaging clarity.”
“A wonderful collection of evidence for the participation of women in early Christian house churches, as patrons, leaders, presiders and funerary banquet hosts. Osiek, MacDonald and Tulloch continue the demonstration of the participation of women in the wider progressiveness of the Greco-Roman era, as well as document the centrality of that participation to early Christian communal life. Essential reading for scholars of the New Testament and antiquity alike.”
“A perceptive and illuminating study of early Christian women in the domestic setting of house-churches. It reveals a wide diversity of roles played by these women, and how domestic and public spheres merged into each other. It is a world of wives, widows, babies and slaves as well as the famous ascetics, set in the broader cultural context of the Mediterranean in the first couple of centuries of Christianity.”
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