Women in early Christianity :  translations from Greek texts / 
[edited by] Patricia Cox Miller. 
 - First edition. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 340 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-332) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Women's roles in the church. Teachers. Marcellina ; Melania the Younger ; Macrina ; Women, the church, and teaching -- Prophets. Disciples of Marcus ; Montanists -- Martyrs. Blandina ; Agathonicê ; Potamiaena -- Catechumens -- Widows. New Testament ; Second-century correspondence ; Third-century church rules -- Deaconesses. Writings opposed to women's ecclesiastical duties -- Women and virginity. Female comportment -- Major treatises on virginity. Methodius, The symposium ; Gregory of Nyssa, On virginity ; John Chrysostom, On virginity -- The subintroductae. Athanasius, Second letter to virgins ; John Chrysostom, Instruction and refutation directed against those men cohabiting with virgins ; John Chrysostom, On the necessity of guarding virginity -- Transvestism -- Portraits of ascetic women. Ascetic heroines in literature. Thecla ; Xanthippe and Polyxena ; Maximilla -- Biographies of ascetic leaders. Macrina ; Melania the Elder ; Melania the Younger ; Olympias -- Women in desert asceticism. The nun who feigned madness ; Pelagia ; Theodora, Sarah, and Syncletica -- Women and domestic life. Marriage. Paul, 1 Corinthians 7 ; Hermas, The shepherd ; Clement of Alexandria, The pedagogue ; Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies ; John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on 1st Corinthians ; John Chrysostom, The kind of women who ought to be taken as wives ; John Chrysostom, Homily 20 on Ephesians -- Praise for mothers and sisters. Gregory of Nazianzus, Funeral oration for his sister Gorgonia ; Gregory of Nazianzus on his mother, Nonna ; John Chrysostom, On the priesthood -- Female imagery and theology. Eve-Mary theme. Eve ; Eve and Mary -- Marian literature. Marian biography ; Virgin and mother of God ; Marian cult ; The other Mary -- Female images and metaphors. God as mother ; The "woman clothed with the sun" ; The church personified as a woman ; The soul as female ; The Virtues as female -- Timeline of early Christian women -- Timeline of early Christian authors and texts. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Greek. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813216300 0813216303 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt3ck7wv  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>30 - 600 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Sources.<br/>Femmes dans le christianisme--Histoire--ca 30-600 (Église primitive)--Sources.<br/>Frau.<br/>Frühchristentum.<br/>Femmes et christianisme--Église--Sources.--30-600 (Église primitive)<br/>RELIGION / Christianity / History<br/>Women in Christianity--Early church.<br/>RELIGION / Christian Church / History
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.<br/>Sources.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR195.W6  / W66 2005eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>270.1/082