Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and indexes.
Contents
Early Christian women married to unbelievers / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- 'If anyone will not work, let them not eat' : 2 Thessalonians 3.10 and the social support of women / Mary Anne Beavis -- Emancipative elements in Ephesians 5.21-33 : why feminist scholarship has (often) left them unmentioned, and why they should be emphasized / Virginia Ramey Mollenkott -- (Re)describing reality? The transformative potential of Ephesians across times and cultures / Elna Mouton -- Epistle to the congregation in Colossae and the invention of the 'household code' / Angela Standhartinger -- 1 Timothy 2.9-15 and the place of women in the church's ministry / David M. Sholer -- Limits and differentiation : the calculus of widows in 1Timothy 5.3-16 -- 'Good citizenship' in the household of God : women's position in the Pastorals reconsidered in the light of Roman rule / Lilian Portefaix -- 1 Timothy 5.3-16 and leadership of women in the early church / Bonnie Thurston.
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