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This book focuses on an often neglected topic: women and their important role as deaconesses, examples of godliness, and co-laborers for the gospel. Essays on women in Earliest Christianity contains a variety of perspectives from many authors who have laid out the biblical and historical examples of feminine Christian worship.

daughters (Acts 21:9), the Corinthian women prophets (1 Cor. 11:2–16), and Jezebel (Rev. 2:20–23). The same may be said for the apparent roles of leadership which some women exercised, e.g., Phoebe as deacon (Rom. 16:1), and probably female deacons in 1 Tim. 3:11.227 In all probability, a significant number of women in the Roman world were attracted to Christianity because they found it liberating. How does this data affect our understanding of the role of women in churches today? We
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