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Lydia's Impatient Sisters

A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity

Luise Schottroff author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.

Published:1st Oct '95

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Lydia's Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff's work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.

ISBN: 9780664226084

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316 pages