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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...

This is also not a book on women in the Gospels or the Pauline churches. Numerous good studies have been written on those topics. Instead, this work is a prolegomena to the study of New Testament women, an introduction to the world of the first Christian century. My hope is to enliven the sights, sounds, and smells (well, maybe not smells) of the ancient Greco-Roman world so that the social and cultural fabric of the Jewish and gentile worlds will penetrate, inform, and even ignite the reader’s imagination
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