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Women Officeholders in Early Christianity

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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