Title: Women officeholders in early Christianity
Description: "Here Ute E. Eisen provides a scholarly investigation of the evidence that women held offices of authority in the first centuries of Christianity. Topics include apostles, prophets, theological teachers, presbyters, enrolled widows, deacons, bishops, and oikonomae. The book concludes with a chapter on "source-oriented perspectives for a history of Christian women in official positions.""--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Women in Christianity, Inscriptions, Women in church work, History, Women, religious life, Christianity
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600