TY - BOOK AU - Cohick,Lynn H TI - Women in the world of the earliest Christians: illuminating ancient ways of life SN - 9780801031724 AV - BR195.C678.W664 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - Baker Academic KW - Christian women KW - Rome KW - Social life and customs KW - Jewish women KW - Women N1 - 1 (pages 329-339) and indexes; 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; 2 N2 - Draws on first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents to examine the lives and experiences of the earliest Christian women ER -