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Women Officeholders in Early Christianity
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January 1, 2000
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Copyright informationCopyright Magistra Publications Winter 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Eisen, Ute.
Translated by Linda Maloney (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000) 336 pp., paper $49.95, ISBN 0-8146-5950-0.
This is the book I wish had been published before I began my search for the early desert mothers (The Forgotten Desert Mothers, Paulist Press). I would have been spared years of research! Eisen has compiled enormous amounts of original source documentation -- inscriptions, private letters, official documents, contracts and other papyri -- as the basis of her scholarly investigation of women holding office in the early Christian movement. Eisen dispels notions that women's participation was narrow and limited in ...
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