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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...

The title of this and the next chapter could be misleading: in the ancient world, religion was not separated from “secular” society. Religious activities were infused with political and economic values. We need think no further than the imperial cult to recognize the symbiotic relationship between religion and the larger culture. The sacred/secular split was a child of the Enlightenment; such views were virtually incomprehensible in the ancient
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