Women's Socioeconomic Status And Religious Leadership In Asia Minor: In The First Two Centuries C.E. (Emerging Scholars)

Rethinking the socioeconomic status of women in the Roman world. Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "women's roles" in the Roman world - discussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her view - Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E. Her findings suggest that women's leadership in social associations - and by implication in Jewish and Christian congregations as well - was even more frequent than has been imagined. -- Book Cover. 9781451469929 1451469926 226 Religion NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=etdgAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Katherine Bain
• • Publisher: Fortress Press
• • Publication Date: May 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 192 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1451469926
• • ISBN-13: 9781451469929