The Revolt of the Widows: The Social World of the Apocryphal Acts

by Stevan L. Davies

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No child of this century, women's liberation existed as a Christian movement in the 2nd century. In this first study of the social context that produced the Apocryphal Acts, Stevan L. Davies contends that women wrote the Acts and that the "Acts appear to have been a striving by Christian women for both a mode of self-expression and a way to preach rebellion for the sake of sexual continence." These early rebels--called widows because...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0809309580

ISBN13:9780809309580

Release Date:September 1980

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:152 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Apocrypha Christian Books & Bibles Education & Reference Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Reference Religion Religion & Spirituality

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