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Roman wives, Roman widows: the appearance of new women..

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In Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first century A.D., a "new" kind of woman emerged across the Roman empire 'a woman whose provocative dress and sometimes promiscuous lifestyle contrasted starkly with the decorum of the traditional married woman. What a woman chose to wear came to identify her as either "new" or "modest". Augustus legislated against the "new" woman. Philosophical schools encouraged their followers to avoid embracing her way of life. And, as this fascinating book demonstrates for the first time, the presence of the "new" woman was also felt in the early church, where Christian wives and widows were exhorted to emulate neither her dress code nor her conduct. Using his extensive knowledge both of the Graeco-Roman world and of the New Testament writings, Bruce Winter shows how changing social mores among women impacted the Pauline communities.

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270.1 WIN r

Publisher

Grand Rapids : Wm B Eerdmans., 2003

Collation

xvii,236p.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8028-4971-7

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270.1

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CHURCH HISTORY - APOSTOLIC PERIOD

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