TY - BOOK AU - Osiek,Carolyn AU - MacDonald,Margaret Y. AU - Tulloch,Janet H. TI - A woman's place: house churches in earliest Christianity SN - 0800636902 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - BV601.85 .O85 2006 U1 - 270.1/082 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Fortress Press KW - House churches KW - Sex role KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Women in church work KW - Women in Christianity KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-330) and indexes; Dutiful and less than dutiful wives -- Giving birth : labor, nursing, and care of infants in house-church communities -- Growing up in house-church communities -- Female slaves : twice vulnerable -- Ephesians 5 and the politics of marriage -- Women leaders of households and Christian assemblies -- Women leaders in family funerary banquets / Janet H. Tulloch -- Women patrons in the life of house churches -- Women as agents of expansion -- Conclusion: discovering a woman's place UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005024274.html ER -