Cohick, Lynn H, <br/><br/>
Women in the world of the earliest Christians :  illuminating ancient ways of life /  [print] 
Lynn H. Cohick. 
 - Grand Rapids, Michigan :  Baker Academic,  (c)2009. 
 - 350 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
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<br/><br/>Women as daughters --  Marriage and matron ideals --  Wives and the realities of marriage --  Motherhood --  Religious activities of Gentile women and God-fearers --  Religious activities and informal power of Jewish and Christian women --  Women's work --  Slaves and prostitutes --  Benefactors and the institution of patronage. 
<br/><br/> Draws on first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents to examine the lives and experiences of the earliest Christian women. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801031724 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009029934 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian women--Social life and customs.--Rome<br/>Jewish women--Social life and customs.--Rome<br/>Women--Social life and customs.--Rome
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR195.C678.W664 2009