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Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Women in the World of the Earliest Christians, Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and full picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family (daughter, wife, mother, widow), religious community (including both official and unofficial...

ended the marriage in favor of another (often more prestigious) match, the wife left with her dowry. Although gaining a handle on the numbers is difficult, it seems that divorce was relatively common in the Greco-Roman period and did not necessarily carry social stigma, although much of our information comes from elite families who jostled for political position using marriage to shore up their standing. Jewish and Christian sources suggest that divorce was also present within their communities.
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