Beryl Rawson

A Woman's Place

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“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.”

Roman Wives, Roman Widows

“Bruce Winter draws on a wide range of classical and Christian sources to illuminate both Roman society and early Christian society. Placing New Testament texts in the wider social and cultural setting of the Mediterranean in early imperial Roman times, he makes a highly readable contribution to recent scholarship that is bringing about closer integration of Roman and early Christian studies, to the benefit of both.”