Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion
This is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. The reference to a hysterical woman was made by the most prolific critic of Christianity, Celsus, and he meant a follower of Jesus, probably Mary Magdalene, who was at the centre of efforts to create and promote belief in the resurrection. MacDonald draws attention to the conviction, emerging from the works of several pagan authors, that female initiative was central to Christianity's development; she sets out to explore the relationship between this and the common Greco-Ro…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-56174-7
- EAN: 9780521561747
- Produktnummer: 1438067
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.0 cm 526 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 526
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