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This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Featuring contributors from key thinkers in the fields of Christian history, it considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE.
List of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1: Joan E. Taylor: Male-Female Missionary Pairings among Jesus' Disciples: Some Further Considerations
- 2: Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: Colleagues of Apostles, Presbyters, and Bishops: Women Syzygoi in Ancient Christian Communities
- 3: Harry Maier: The Entrepreneurial Widows of 1 Timothy
- 4: Margaret Butterfield: Sacred Intercessors: Widows as Altar in Polycarp, Philippians
- 5: Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski: The Image of the Feminine in the Gospel of Philip: An Innovative Assimilation of Paul's Gender Legacy in the Valentinian Milieu
- 6: Nicola Denzey Lewis: Women in Gnosticism
- 7: Markus Vinzent: More 'Holy Women' in Early Christianity: The Gospels of Mary and Marcion
- 8: William Tabbernee: Women Officeholders in Montanism
- 9: Teresa Berger: Women's Liturgical Practices and Leadership Roles in Early Christian Communities
- 10: John Wijngaards: Women Deacons in Ancient Christian Communities: Leadership and Ordination
- 11: Karl Olav Sandnes: Eudocia's Homeric Cento and the Woman Anointing Jesus: An Example of Female Authority
- 12: Ally Kateusz and Luca Badini Confalonieri: Women Church Leaders in and around Fifth-Century Rome
- 13: Kevin J. Madigan: The Meaning of Presbytera in Byzantine and Early Medieval Christianity
- 14: Joan E. Taylor: Gendered Space: Eusebius on the Therapeutae and the 'Megiddo Church'
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Joan E. Taylor is Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College London.
Ilaria L. E. Ramelli is Professor of Theology (Durham, hon.; Angelicum; KUL); Senior Research Fellow and Member (Bonn University; Princeton; Erfurt MWK; Cambridge University).
Summary
This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Featuring contributors from key thinkers in the fields of Christian history, it considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE.
